The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
Introduction Map of Yoshio Koya's destinations, 2011. From February to April 1950, the head of the Institute of Public Health in Tokyo, Yoshio Koya, was sent by the US-led Occupation...
Writing Appalachia
...Tennessee towns along the Great Road, a heavily traveled trade route running along the contemporary I-81 corridor from Pennsylvania to Southern Appalachia.14Betsy K. White, Great Road Style: The Decorative Arts...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the Pacific theater from insect-borne diseases, and the US Army proclaimed it the "war's greatest contribution to the future health of the world."3"DDT Seen for Public by Spring," Atlanta Journal,...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...local places (and abstract spaces) would mean something different to indigeneous groups than to colonizing powers (4). Citing Keith Basso's Wisdom Sits in Places—a favorite among historians of American Indians—she...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Tashkent. In all, 130 companies from seventeen countries participated, among them Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, the United States, Turkey, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic, South Korea,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...plied their needles . . . with great dexterity and neatness. The cutlers completed their work to great perfection. . . . We also visited the shops of the various...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...system of linked places that persisted through the upheavals of the eighteenth century and continually challenged British notions of order and control. Paulett asserts that incompatible mapping between British ideals...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984), 152. For scholarly accounts regarding the numbers of children at Cornwall mission school...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...resulted in the founding of the San Antonio Conservation Society, which successfully lobbied against this measure and was tasked with overseeing future development of the area. Delayed by the Great...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Thomson made "cautious bids" to prevent being discovered.11Ibid., 332. He wrote "Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d and 3d, 1859," published in The New-York Tribune, on...