Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...getting the closest thing we have to an official funeral, lying in state at the old city hall, midst portraits of French explorers, colonial potentates, Confederate generals and former mayors....
Public Health in the US and Global South
...city's HIV "epidemic" to that of African countries. "Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," says Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...engage the city's diverse centers and institutions. At our monthly gatherings, LiFT attempts to demonstrate to a new constituency that cultural institutions are not merely repositories. Instead, as I am reminded each...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...new or surprising material. Writers popular and academic have long served up Cherokee Removal as a measure of an emergent nation's moral capacity.1Significant works include William G. McLoughlin, Cherokees and...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Philip Simmons' Ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina, produced in partnership with the Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc., reveals the cultural legacies of enslaved artisans in this city, which influenced the life...
Good-Bye to All That?
...office-holders. (A Tea Party-endorsed candidate unseated the county's moderate Republican state representative in the 2010 GOP primary.) Today the city of Brevard (population 7,700) remains Democratic—though by a reduced margin—but...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...Oklahoma City. Despite the presence of these dangerous and explosive chemicals, the plant has not been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) since 1985, and the company...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...between Thomasville and Tallahassee providing medical care to malaria-carrying rural laborers. Chronic and ubiquitous, malaria not only affected the health of laborers, but sapped the region's production capacity as well....
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...relationship between health and migration, Public health and its material culture(s) Intersections of public health with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Campaigns for immunization, safe food, clean water,...