Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...HIV/AIDS Disability studies Local, state, and federal public health programs and institutions: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Public Health Service (PHS), Occupational Health...
Roadside Architecture
...scenes and activities, churches, cotton gins, roadside stores, and many of the people I've encountered along the way—their likenesses as portraits, their worship services, their family reunions, some of the...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...and after a series of heart problems, he died suddenly two weeks ago at 53. In an interview three years ago for American Routes Tuba Fats acknowledged the difficulty and...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...join eighteen other states that have introduced similar laws requiring voter identification at the polls this year. According to The Boston Globe, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas executive...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012. In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe,...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...Americans with Disabilities Act, and enable non-expressive uses like comprehensive word searches, text mining, and data analysis. Baer's ruling represented a major victory for the HathiTrust, its affiliates, and fair...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
...Part 4: Frank demonstrates the possibilities of HGIS using visualizations from his Terrain of History project About the Author Zephyr Frank is associate professor of Latin American History at Stanford...
Glocal Lounge
...imaginary of the US small town contributes to the ideology of American empire, author Ryan Poll offers a quick overview of the term: At the conclusion of his canonical essay,...