Whiskey and Geography
...it became what historian John Alexander Williams called “one of the few expressions of ‘perfect unanimity’ in the mountain region’s entire political history.”7John Alexander Williams, Appalachia: A History (Chapel Hill:...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...sugar, and coffee that fed the Atlantic economy.1Recent work on the relationship between slavery and capitalism has emphasized the vitality of slavery during the nineteenth century; see Walter Johnson, River of...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Hutchison instead offers a number of "themes"—all significant and important—that emerge from Apples and Ashes, including the transnational nature of Confederate literature, the cosmopolitan aspirations of Confederate writers, and the...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Nuclear Threat Initiative and Johns Hopkins University reported that the United States was at the top of the heap internationally in terms of its readiness to contend with a pandemic....
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Justice John Roberts involving Shelby County, Alabama, the current Court will reach the same practical result: overturning the ruling of a three-judge court (composed of two Trump-appointed and one Clinton...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...area because the new road is one way of getting from Johnson City to Asheville as fast as you can. The people that are passing this road (Highway 23) right...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...