Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...ways in which "decisions informed by energy needs and water insecurity influenced physical and political landscapes," (20) and, at its core, a history of "how private corporations, public institutions, and...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...in Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas, and extended to the Pacific, with some populations in California.13Audubon, Quadrupeds, 125. The opossum—which is remarkably fecund due to its short gestation period and...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...port cities. Instead, it was a sluggish disease endemic in the island's mountainous interior. Whereas in Cuba most yellow fever victims were nonimmune Spanish immigrants, in Puerto Rico most hookworm...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and they couldn't catch me. I was in the army in Guatemala, so I had a compass. I took a train through Mexico. I swam across the Rio Grande. I...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...dance show, I think it was on channel 12, but one of the reasons I remember it is because I watched it. And I remember that there was a dance...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...rapid increase in population in postwar Japan. They feared that population pressure and economic instability could once again push the nation into aggressive expansionism, possibly resulting in another war. Advancing...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...called 'marijuana.'" The reader hoped to learn "where it is grown; its effect on the human system and if it is injurious or otherwise." Such questions suggest a general lack...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...It Were) the 'Negro Problem' in The Birth of the Nation," in The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present, ed. Michael T. Martin (Bloomington: Indiana University...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...recorded. No one was interested in him, and he wasn't interested in coming out. No one was interested in coming to listen. He didn't want to go make records or...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, offered justifications for its programming in the public interest. The station noted the track record of its radio operation as an "important medium of cultural expression...