Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...airplane and boat suggest parallel devotional differences between Miami's mostly lower-class "Little Haiti" and various middle- and upper-class suburban enclaves. Haitians in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods outside of Miami (such...
The Shenandoah Valley
...have differed so little over four hundred years--a fertile land for agriculture, a transportation network with easy access to the east and west, an abundance of water, and an array...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...have been replaced by service stations, interstates, buildings, and other signs of urban growth. Still, there are surviving topographical features of the sprawling battlefield and many reminders of key events,...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...staged a march commemorating the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero four years earlier. Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. On July 7, 2009, twelve days after Jackson's death, millions of fans watched the homegoing service of the "King of Pop."...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...a Middle Passage port on the Rappahannock River.2Further study by a National Park Service historian reviewing data from the New York Historical Society provided more detail to support this "new"...
Consolation
...writing this poem by a pen-light and waiting for Livingston to come with his gun and pull us out and take us back to the idling car, if we could...