"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...violence because African Americans tended to cluster in the 1860s within the state's larger urban centers in the Kansas River Valley counties and continued to reside overwhelmingly in these same...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...weeks and forced all abortion sites to register as ambulatory surgical centers. Davis previously filibustered a budget that saw huge cuts to education for eight hours. Although that budget ultimately...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...in the United States in the twentieth century, much of Faulkner's work centered on the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. Sotheby's announced on March 28, 2013 that the prolific author's Nobel Prize...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...which defines marriage as "between one man and one woman" has brought the issue of equal rights for same-sex couples into the center of the national political arena over the...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...center, "even if they do not perform surgical abortions." Opponents argue that only five clinics—all in metropolitan areas—currently meet these standards, and women in rural areas of the state will...
New Website for Music Memory
...of thousands of recordings without commercial potential. The frontpage of Music Memory, an online music archive launched by Lance Ledbetter. This month, Ledbetter has launched Music Memory, his audio-centered spin on the...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...a baby in her arms. Centered in front of a wall of worn, white wooden siding and standing in dusty gray dirt, the women's well-kept appearance seems incongruous with their...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...narratives helped to define the imagined South for post-Civil War readers, and popular writers like Mark Twain, Page, and Chesnutt. Upon Provincialism's most provocative arguments center on the "outing" of...