Early Roller Coaster Patents
...Up Hill," New York Times, June 27, 1884]. Wood's obituary [Toledo Blade, May 4, 1909] indicates that he licensed his patent for as much as $17,000 in a single year,...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...reported that the saloon's owner grabbed fourteen-year-old Antonio Gómez and tossed him to the street. As a crowd closed in around Gómez, he defended himself and fatally stabbed the man...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...and the Top of the Map." History of Religions 10, no. 3 (1971): 225; Arthur Hunt, "2000 Years of Map Making." Geography 85, no. 1 (2000): 6. Yi Hoe and...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...American republic. This work involved cultural, economic, and political adaptations, rewarding Cherokees with the public image of a "civilized tribe." In the years after the Creek War, as Jackson pursued...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...if they agree to relocation. On March 29, Exxon-Mobil's sixty-five-year-old Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas. The town, which lies twenty-five miles northwest of Little Rock, was inundated with an estimated 210,000...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...Goodwin would recall the staggering prevalence of malaria throughout the South in an interview nearly thirty years later: . . . Every commercial and educational activity had to plan on...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...year. More information on that case can be found at the Texas Redistricting and Election Law Blog. Finally, even though the state legislature, state Supreme Court, and the US Department...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
According to Duke Yearlook: Members of the Students for a Democratic Central America counter-protesting a demonstration done by the Central America Solidarity Committee. Members of the Central America Solidarity Committee...