Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...up of daily logs, filled with short conversations or encounters, and some proto-analysis of what was seen. Fieldnotes are also the site of thick description, which is the act of...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Selections should engage with space and place, either through specific geographical sites or imagined geographies related to the U.S. South. All proposals should be sent to Series Editors Sarah Melton...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
Review I came to Brett Gadsden's work with some doubts of how and why the state of Delaware merited its own local study, and with growing apprehension about the proliferation...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled fugitives and Christians to find new sites for these and other forbidden activities. Neighborhood was an important space in slave society, but it did not delimit the boundaries of...
Darkly
...if light swept from the channel or the opposite shore. The sky is empty, and the river's bent like a question too close or too far away to read. "Darkly"...
Glocal Lounge
...site which takes notice of work in critical regionalism, wherever we find it. In the following excerpt from Main Street and Empire (Rutgers, 2012), a study of how the historical...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...locations for the photographs misses the point of Bradford's project. LeBourdais's decision not to map every image, focusing instead on core sites clearly identifiable in the photographs and their role...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to address questions of spatial justice Currently Southern Spaces seeks submissions that engage...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
Review By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the cause of worldwide abolition was riding high. Nearly a half century had passed since revolutionary fervor put slavery on a...