Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Philip Simmons' Ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina, produced in partnership with the Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc., reveals the cultural legacies of enslaved artisans in this city, which influenced the life...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...between Thomasville and Tallahassee providing medical care to malaria-carrying rural laborers. Chronic and ubiquitous, malaria not only affected the health of laborers, but sapped the region's production capacity as well....
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...relationship between health and migration, Public health and its material culture(s) Intersections of public health with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Campaigns for immunization, safe food, clean water,...
The Bulletin—August 9, 2012
...I-285 perimeter voted in favor of the bill, with residents of the city of Atlanta voting in favor of the bill 60% to 40%. The outcome of this ballot initiative...
Remnants of Flannery
...Drago's story is based is startling in its simplicity—a solid background with a black-ink drawing in the foreground—and as such, Drago's story follows an age old plot: two friends go...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...much of the state without intercity transportation, mirroring challenges in providing adequate public transportation to rural communities across the US South and beyond. In an update to Dan Carter's recent...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Louisiana National Guardmen observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008
...Gustav, September 1, 2008. In this photograph, two Guardsmen located on the Claiborne Avenue Bridge observe as water from the industrial canal overtops the levees and pours onto the city....
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...a community-based music with place (rather than solely with family, religious denomination, race, ethnicity, or another cultural marker) creates openings for individuals who fall outside the group previously associated with...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...the South in popular culture and historical accounts. For some, it is a city distinct from the rest of the South, even as for others, it is very much part...