Public Health in the US and Global South
...protect the health and well-being of the public. The series's first article by Elena Conis, "DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia After WWII," reveals the postwar...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 2006. Photograph by Brett Weinstein. Released under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license....
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....
The Black Belt
...dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them.” New York, New York. Portrait of Richard Wright, poet, May 1943. Photograph by Gordon...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...they nor the "keywords" themselves are intended to approach taxonomic precision. For similar reasons, we have avoided—although some contributors have not—the term "New Southern Studies," which carries, at least implicitly,...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America (Athens: NewSouth Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press, 2023). Earlier in his career, Suitts served as the...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...107). (Perhaps predictably, New Orleans reciprocated his affection: Hearn remains an important figure in New Orleans history and lore.) Hardwig helps us to make sense of some of Hearn's most...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...of spatial perspectives into the study of nineteenth-century US health and economics history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (Originally published in New York: Random House, 1955; New York: Vintage International, 1994), [166]. As more dependable levees for the protection of croplands and other...