Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of Africa, in the development of people, in that which is true and good." Biggers believed Ampofo embodied "the New Africa," linking the continent's past with its future through his...
Glocal Lounge
...1980s, challenges the dominant "fictions of globalization" (such as the global village) and instead uses local and regional sources to produce new narratives and geographic imaginaries by which to historicize...
Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
...to traffic in nostalgic visions of an agrarian landscape filled with small farmers. However, the sequence of photographs below actually shows how West Virginia farmers combined old and new technologies...
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
...to a white father and black mother in Baltimore, Maryland, Lynch was trained as a minister at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and then preached in Galena, Indiana until the Civil War. After...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...representational politics of digital scholarship, with attention to demographic histories, global migrations, and diasporas Reflections on sustaining and archiving projects Projects that explore technologies and scholarship in relation to teaching new...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...In the early 1980s, many of Peel's clients and friends became sick and started dying from a mysterious new disease eventually named the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, commonly known as AIDS....
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...works include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014) and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
Sign advertising new motel at Exit 3, Bear Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Unidentified people sitting on their porch at Bear Branch before they have to vacate...
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...