Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Tuskegee Study. This experiment, in which the PHS deliberately withheld treatment from four hundred syphilitic Alabama black men in order to study the disease's "natural" progression, was designed to provide...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic human trade and provide a means for addressing a painful and shameful American experience whose vestiges persist today. These ceremonies feature rituals incorporating representatives of African, Native American, Asian,...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...suffered from "mismanagement, underfunding, poor design, and civic neglect" (1). New Deal Ruins reminds—or informs—us that tenants were well aware of and attentive to these problems. They also knew that...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Knowles, Anne Kelly. "Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities." Southern Spaces, October 31, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/has-historical-gis-arrived-review-toward-spatial-humanities. Nesbit, Scott, Andrew J. Torget, and Robert K. Nelson. "A Conversation...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...“Rebuilding after Katrina: A Population-Based Study of Labor and Human Rights in New Orleans.” International Human Rights Law Clinic, Boalt Hall School of Law, and Human Rights Center, University of...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...to perceive the connections and describe the reach of human actions and practices. The scales at which women and men acted extend from the private sphere to institutions or networks....
Sapelo Island Flyover
...blend of natural and human history. The western half of the island is composed primarily of Pleistocene sediments deposited along a shoreline 40–50,000 years ago. Much of its eastern half...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...main cause of change for earth itself. Chakrabarty argues that humans now wield a separate geological force and that we must scale up our imagination of the human, the consciousness...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...with slavery; a 'down-home' black South marked by distinctive speech and cultural practices; a sexually libidinous South; a rural, bucolic South; a lawless, criminal South; and a sophisticated urban South....
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...rural areas, most seemed to be set in cities, so if I got my hands on books with rural settings, they resonated more. Where the Lilies Bloom was important to...