MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...an initial eagerness to identify precise locations for icebergs photographed for William Bradford's late nineteenth-century book, The Arctic Regions. Despite scientific aspects of Bradford's mission, he did not record exact...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...Amie Vanderford is a freelance photographer currently living in Memphis and working primarily in the non-profit sector. Vanderford's work has been featured in a wide range of publications, silent auctions...
Bodies and Souls
...school, I decided to return home to Mississippi and approach the topic of rural healthcare. I grew up in Canton, Mississippi—a few hours drive from Jonestown. My first film, Waking in...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...with Dr. Henry Norton Torrey and Nell Ford Torrey, and ending with their daughter, Eleanor Torrey ("Sandy") West. The Torreys oversaw the building of a large home for themselves, as...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Rutgers University Press, 2011), 11. Black civilian on horseback, The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Cyclorama painting by the American Panorama Company, photographed by Michael Page. The only Black...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...her rural community outside of Claxton, Georgia, was causing grave harm, and that she and her neighbors had a right to be spared its effects. She described her own sensitivity...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Communist Party vice-presidential candidate James W. Ford in October 1936, Daniels wrote a scolding editorial denouncing Ericson's action, not because Ford was a communist, but because he was black.22Eagles, Jonathan Daniels...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Station in Chamblee with routes from Atlanta to cities and towns in Mexico. Chamblee, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2001 Signs outside of the Buford Highway Flea Market. Chamblee,...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...A detail from the Blandford map—created in 1890 after almost a decade of work by Texan Robert A. Blandford, under commission from the City of Savannah—corroborates the earlier maps found...
The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...