The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Deep Ellum Blues
...to mark subtle social distinctions in the areas that developed along its path. The most affluent regions of North Dallas were almost always located to the west of the expressway:...
Country Music Scholar
Video Part 2: Malone discusses enrolling at the University of Texas, the Austin folk revival, and his dissertation, Country Music USA Part 3: Malone discusses variation in country music style, contrasting the...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
...how Scott and Huntington cultivated political “friendships” to gain corporate influence in federal government Part 4: White addresses questions about the on-going significance of transcontinental railroads and competition About Richard White:...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Third Coast. He has also published three pieces, Anniversary, A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama, and In the Queen City: A Reading at the...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...America. History is the subject—personal, racial, national. The idiom is complex, drawing from Rauschenburg and Basquiat, Bearden and Lawrence, articulated in painting, assemblage, drawing, and sculpture. Like Kerry James Marshall,...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...soon began questioning this assumption. The postal system facilitated the distribution of incendiary abolitionist material such as David Walker's Appeal. Slaveholders expressed disgust when mayor Harrison Gray Otis of Boston...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander Desmognathus monticola monticola Appalachian Seal Salamander Plethodon chlorobryonis Atlantic Coastal Slimy Salamander Gyrinophilus gulolineatus Berry Cave Salamander Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides Big Mouth Cave Salamander Desmognathus welteri...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...detailed geographic shout-outs, and nonsense/syllabic vocal delivery influenced strongly by the native New Orleans bounce music style. While the author's focus deals with the local, Miller is also confronted with...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...personal and historical connections, such as the chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach), which was a prominent feature in his childhood yard and also was, as he liked to point out, one...