Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...first name used, given that surnames are usually inscribed on Mount Zion–FUBS headstones? Possibly because the child was buried within an extant family plot that was obscured through the relocation...
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
...Madison County that spans over fifty years, with some overlap of what we have seen in his previous two books. To Frank and Wright, they are a treasure map that...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...that what they were doing was important. If you think about where you might be in twelve years, odds are that you'll actually end up somewhere very different, whether it's...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...of the makeshift agricultural economy as a household mode of production. Although he acknowledges that the agrarian household was a "coercive institution" (216), what he means by that is the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...that Petrie could analyze samples of soil from her property, so that she could prove, once and for all, what had been sprayed on it—and what was making her sick....
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Donnelley Foundation, LDHI launched in 2014 as a collaborative project that enables archivists, museum professionals, and scholars from various partner institutions to translate archival materials, historic landscapes and structures, and...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Art in 2010 and includes over fifty photographic portraits and audio interviews with New Orleans rappers, DJs, producers, photographers, label owners, promoters, record store personnel, journalists, and other parties involved...
Local Color
...brand of diversity by depicting attractive communities that could access cross-regional agreements about values that defused troubling surface differences. The popularity of local color fiction after the Civil War has...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...that wanted to receive federal funds, but lacked other provisions that would have allowed it more fully to support efforts like the Dixie Highway. Ingram presents World War I as...