Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a fully-fledged movement since we started in 2004. News of our endeavor spread quickly as we hammered, stapled, and stretched chicken wire on our new coop, most of which we...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Watching the Surface for a Sign
...from his novel Chattahoochee. Excerpt About Patrick Phillips Patrick Phillips won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize for his first book, Chattahoochee, and his second, Boy, was published by the...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...Young reads “Money Road” About Kevin Young Kevin Young is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Book of Hours, which was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air," and...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...be free at last." More than a few criticize the staff of the VHS as condescending and unfriendly. Jim Belfield, Arthur Ashe monument, Richmond, Virginia, 2006. Despite its sometimes stuffy...
Local Color
...Grace King, Kate Chopin, Mollie E. Moore Davis, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Ruth McEnery Stuart). It is possible that the feminization of local color contributed to the genre's loss of popularity;...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...suburbia's perceived artificiality, conformity, and sterility. Photographers from Paul Strand to Joel Meyerowitz capture and implicitly comment upon the iconic white picket fence. One tragedy of US homeownership is the...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In North Carolina, the state Supreme Court rejected a request filed by several state organizations asking that recently re-elected Justice Paul Newby recuse...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...and oral histories to contemporary survey and institutional data, Wuthnow demonstrates that empirical evidence is most useful as an explanatory tool when linked to a theoretical perspective. Most impressive is...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...of spatial perspectives into the study of nineteenth-century US health and economics history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he...