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...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...the Faulkner family hopes that a public institution will end up purchasing the material. A recent poll commissioned by Democrats reveals that Atlanta's political landscape is deeply divided. The poll...
Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
...to traffic in nostalgic visions of an agrarian landscape filled with small farmers. However, the sequence of photographs below actually shows how West Virginia farmers combined old and new technologies...
The Cobb County Braves
...Atlanta, displacing the residents of Mechanicsville, Peoplestown, and Summerhill neighborhoods. An important piece of Atlanta's history, Turner Field has left an indelible mark on the city's cultural and economic landscape....
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Review Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See presents a rhapsodic argument in pictures and words for the preservation, restoration, and reestablishment of longleaf pine forests across the areas of the...
Place, Time, and Memory
...rural landscape, the effects of time's passage upon the material world, the hubris of monumentality, and the fatal attractions of evil. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Christenberry lived...
Birdhouses
...drastically reshaped the landscape to make the two ponds one. The contrast between birdhouse and backdrop seemed significant, and framing it in the Holga's viewfinder, I saw sanctuary against foreboding...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...toward things that are farther away — as a rough analogue, though in reverse, to the historical layering process that formed the cityscape. In the parts of these cities that...
Whiskey and Geography
...and through protests they made it clear that whiskey was their only source of cash and their way out of debt. Taxing that main means of escape from dire poverty...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...structure of most ads is uniform, some offer deeper insight into the global system of slavery. This 1775 ad from Wilmington, for example, details the escape of a slave named Quamino...