Bricking the Church
...gullies. The little churchhouse now looks more like a post office or school. It's hard to find among the brown winter slopes or plowed fields of spring. Brick was prestigious...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...in Congress during the last decades of the twentieth century. Home to a highly educated black middle class rooted in institutions like Howard University, DC experienced a similar urban crisis...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...church groups, and individuals—to get a feeling of their relationship with the Parkway. But those stories, especially from the early years, likely don't exist except in people's living rooms. A...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
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...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...into town and go shopping. Even without a pass, many Japanese Americans sneaked out to go fishing or to take a walk in the woods. But unlike the shoppers and...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...advocate for visibility and representation within the United States."16McNamara, 13. Like Márquez, she is attentive to the racial diversity of the population, writing that “U.S.-born Latinas and Latinos disavowed radical,...