The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...was an enchanted room, the first gay bar Diane and Maria took her to when she arrived in the colorful, picturesque city of San Antonio from West Texas two weeks...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...West, the southernmost point in the continental US. Your trip from Atlanta is fourteen hours. You leave at midnight. You arrive in Key West at 4:00 pm. You are tired....
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Sexuality during World War Two (New York: New York University Press, 2008); John Parascandola, Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008). We've fought...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...rather than expand east and west. The plan was never adopted into law. The most immediate concern for Watson was protecting undeveloped land in the hills west of Austin, which...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. that has experienced rapid population growth over the last forty years; the Census South reached 114,555,744 residents in...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...multiple uses, as livestock feed and human food, medicine, dye, clothing, storage, cordage, etc.10M.A. Altieri, Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995). Shand, Human Nature. ...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Mississippi had the largest proportion—14 percent. Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Alabama followed at 11 to 12 percent. Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...