Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of the style's northern spread and southern decline. A team of volunteers is currently processing digitized minutes from fifty annual volumes going back to 1945, produced prior to the digitization...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...and family networks. In their online format, the Ghost Maps combine multiple disciplinary methods "in order to let quantitative ('social science') data speak to, interact with, and be enhanced by...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...our institutions to avoid creating a two- or three-tiered higher-education system where some people cannot access any kind of education, others can only afford to enroll in online education, and...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...to Juarez bridge, c. 1915. Courtesy of the Bain Collection, Library of Congress, LC-B2-2964-12. With his discussion of the 1917 El Paso typhus bath riots, Mckiernan-González presents one of his...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...remembers 'that chairs were placed on the balcony of the two-story building to accommodate the crowds gathered to witness the lynching,' while he stayed behind locked doors in his office,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...describes the equipment needed to produce a live Bass experience. Sample from DJ Magic Mike, "The Man with the Bass, " Cheetah Records, 1994. Orlando-based producer DJ Magic Mike crafts...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...and cruising area at the back. That said, I am also grateful for a reminder from an anonymous peer reviewer that "owners of bath houses, bars, or cinemas sometimes faced...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...to hold back spring floods come immediately to mind. Heaped with cotton bales and hogsheads of sugar, these manmade levees were famous for their babble of bustle and clamor. But...
The Liminal Site
...to become part of an extensive network of linear parks across the metropolitan region. Birmingham skyline through the white oaks. Birmingham, Alabama, March 21, 2008. Photograph by Jon Smith. The...