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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with...
Overview Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi introduces the digital humanities mapping series "MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas."During the spring semester of 2016, Emory University's "MAP IT | Little Dots, Big...
View ArticleTracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Overview George Philip LeBourdais discusses the work of painter and photographer William Bradford who explored the Arctic in 1869 and subsequently published his account of the journey in The Arctic...
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Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
Overview In this excerpt, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson introduce Keywords for Southern Studies (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016).ExcerptAny collection that aims, as this one...
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Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
Panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Photograph courtesy of the author, June 23, 2016.Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and...
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Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
Overview C.J. Alvarez reviews Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande by George T. Díaz (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015).ReviewIn Border Contraband: A History of...
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Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of...
Overview Gabriel A. Acevedo reviews Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014). Review As I write this...
View ArticleEnchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Overview Nicholas Bauch discusses Enchanting the Desert, a digital monograph based on a slideshow made by commercial photographer Henry G. Peabody between 1899–1930 at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The...
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DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World...
Overview Elena Conis examines competing narratives of DDT in order to insert a more complicated story of local American values, beliefs, and ideas about health and environment into the often-told...
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Public Health in the US and Global South
Overview Series editor Mary E. Frederickson introduces the public health series "Public Health in the US and Global South."Public Health in the US and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary,...
View ArticleSeeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Overview In this illustrated lecture, Niall Atkinson maps the soundscapes of Renaissance Florence, taking Dante's cue about the relationship between the sound of a bell, the evocation of a social...
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Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
Overview One of the most enigmatic objects on display in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is "Ashley's Sack." On loan from South Carolina's Middleton Place,...
View ArticleJoseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Overview Historian Joseph Crespino interviews Decatur, Georgia-based historical novelist, Thomas Mullen, author of Darktown (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), The Revisionists (London: Hodder &...
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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Overview This essay examines Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto" (1837), a short story acknowledged as the first fictional work by an African American. Through its representation of physical and...
View ArticleClimate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean...
Overview In this illustrated talk that draws upon fifty years of research in the Caribbean, James W. Porter addresses global climate change as the defining challenge of the twenty-first century. He...
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All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
Overview The 1838 expulsion of the Cherokee Nation from the state of Georgia culminated a decade of oppressive policies and more than two decades of federal pressure on Native Americans to give up...
View ArticleThe Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Overview Digital mapping strategies and tools have the potential to reveal new insights into (and offer corrections of) accepted accounts of historical situations. S. Wright Kennedy illustrates this...
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The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
Overview In an excerpt from Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940 (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015), author José Amador discusses the transmission of new medical...
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The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
Overview Andrew W. Kahrl reviews William E. O'Brien's Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015).ReviewIn the years...
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Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
Overview Drawing upon extensive observations published in the German-speaking states of northern Europe, Paul Warden addresses the collective medical geography of the Gulf South as revealed through...
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Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
Overview In this review essay, Eric Solomon places Loving (d. Jeff Nichols) alongside Moonlight (d. Barry Jenkins) as films inviting viewers to enter the breach and break expectations of received...
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