Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...in Mississippi; and Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville in Tennessee. My initial plan was to photograph in two parts of each city: the older downtown areas and places that attracted...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...a work of history, Ramp Hollow is unusual in its direct relevance to contemporary politics. This is true for not only areas of the world where land grabs and enclosures...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...to the study of space and place. Interviews are filmed or transcribed conversations with scholars, authors, artists, or others working in areas related to the study of space and place...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...a bounded southern region or culture area and embracing a sense of home place that they define in their own terms as Native southern ground. But this point does not...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...makers' decisions about perspective, scale, and features of an area.1See also Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps, second edition, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). For example, Muhammad al-Idrisi...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...and Ohio. The inflatable likeness belongs to the Mother Jones Heritage Project, a pro-labor organization based in the Chicago area. Jim Dixon of Springfield, Illinois, drove her down to Alabama....
Birth Right
...areas of the state are medically underserved, frequently impoverished, and suffer from higher infant and maternal mortality rates. According to a report by the American Hospital Association, between 1980 and...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
Work
...foothills of Virginia—Martinsville, Danville, Fieldale, and Bassett. She then passed the next twenty-five years in North Carolina, in the Chapel Hill and Durham area, with a short stint at Camp...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...