Project MUSE®: Southeastern Geographer - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Southeastern Geographer.daily12026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1961) through current issueLatest Articles: Southeastern GeographerTWOProject MUSE®Southeastern Geographer1549-69290038-366XLatest articles in Southeastern Geographer. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Sunset at Kuwohi in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984026
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded 12.2 million visitors in 2024, making it once again the most visited 'National Park' in the United States (Kuta 2025). People travel to this park from around the world to catch spectacular mountain vista views, take on challenging yet rewarding hikes, appreciate historic churches and homes, or to just enjoy a scenic drive along park roads looking for wildlife. Yet, this special place does not exist solely to preserve resources unimpaired while providing for public use and enjoyment, as the National Park Service is mandated; it exists within a much wider context (Winks 1997). Despite its formal establishment as a 'National Park' in 1934, human history at this place
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/279/image/coversmallSunset at Kuwohi in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park2026-03-04text/htmlen-USSunset at Kuwohi in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®270262026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04The summer isolated convection regime across the eastern United States: Geographic extent and regional onset evolution
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984027
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This study establishes the geographical extent across the eastern US of a monsoon-like summer regime of isolated convection.Regime onset begins in April in South Florida, extends to the Canadian border by the end of May, then to east Texas by mid-June.Results are consistent with past studies linking this regime to the seasonal migration of the North Atlantic Subtropical High.Precipitation in the southeastern US (SEUS) occurs year-round, with an annual progression of seasonal precipitation regimes ranging from extratropical cyclones in winter to tropical systems in summer and fall (Prat and Nelson 2014), each with unique and significant local impacts. Embedded within this annual progression of precipitation is a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/279/image/coversmallThe summer isolated convection regime across the eastern United States: Geographic extent and regional onset evolution2026-03-04text/htmlen-USThe summer isolated convection regime across the eastern United States: Geographic extent and regional onset evolution2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®916322026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04The 1957–1976 Summertime Drought Gap in the Southeastern United States
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984028
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A 20-year drought gap occurred in the Southeast United States from 1957–1976.The drought gap was primarily driven by cooler temperatures and coincident with the warming hole and negative phase AMO.A 20-year drought hiatus is unlikely to recur given current climate conditions.Despite an overall abundance of summertime (June–August) precipitation (mean = ~365 mm) in the southeastern United States, droughts, sometimes multi-year, are a component of the region's climatology (Pederson et al., 2012; Mitchell et al., 2020, 2024; Knapp et al., 2021; Catherwood et al., 2023). Summertime droughts can be severe, such as the 1986 (Karl and Young, 1987), 2002 (Weaver, 2005), 2007 (Maxwell and Soulé, 2009), and 2011 (Kennedy
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/279/image/coversmallThe 1957–1976 Summertime Drought Gap in the Southeastern United States2026-03-04text/htmlen-USThe 1957–1976 Summertime Drought Gap in the Southeastern United States2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®560572026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Assessing Natural Disaster Risks for Incarcerated Individuals in the Gulf Coast of the United States
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984029
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More than half of the incarcerated population in the Gulf Coast are housed in correctional facilities that are very high or relatively high risk for extreme heat index.Correctional facilities that are ICE-operated are more at risk for riverine flooding than hurricanes.Correctional facilities that house only women are more at risk for riverine flooding than hurricanesNearly 90% of correctional facilities in Florida are very high or relatively high risk for hurricanes.Almost 25% of facilities in census tracts that are very high risk for hurricanes are designated solely for youth detentionThe climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century, and countless scholars have examined how anthropogenic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/279/image/coversmallAssessing Natural Disaster Risks for Incarcerated Individuals in the Gulf Coast of the United States2026-03-04text/htmlen-USAssessing Natural Disaster Risks for Incarcerated Individuals in the Gulf Coast of the United States2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®2122142026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984031
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In Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, National Book Award–winning author Imani Perry offers a meditation, a memoir, and a cultural history woven into one. The book is unconventional in form, composed of brief, thematic sections rather than traditional chapters. Still, this structure is central to its argument: Black history and culture, Perry insists, cannot be contained within linear narratives but must be approached through fragments, riffs, and refrains, creating a text that traverses indigo fields in South Carolina, burial grounds where blue beads remain, and the sonic landscapes of the Mississippi Delta.What emerges is a sweeping meditation on how a single color encapsulates the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/279/image/coversmallBlack in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry (review)2026-03-04text/htmlen-USBlack in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry (review)2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®155352026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04The Most Controversial State Park: Jekyll Island by C. Brenden Martin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984032
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The chosen title for Martin's account of Georgia's Jekyll Island public management in the last seven decades is an indication of the book's thematic foci and theoretical perspective. Across fourteen chronologically sequenced chapters and a substantive preface and conclusion, Martin delivers on his stated purpose: "to write a book to fully explore the battles that went on behind the scenes as Jekyll was becoming what it is today" (p. ix). Indeed, as a state park with distinctive development patterns and governance structure, the book is primarily about state politics, from a pluralist perspective, interwoven with conflicting ideas about land, water, conservation, commerce, housing, recreation, tourism and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/279/image/coversmallThe Most Controversial State Park: Jekyll Island by C. Brenden Martin (review)2026-03-04text/htmlen-USThe Most Controversial State Park: Jekyll Island by C. Brenden Martin (review)2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®115042026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South by Sarah McNamara (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984033
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Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South provides a unique perspective on an often-mis-understood neighborhood of contemporary Tampa, Florida. Author Sarah McNamara uses oral histories, newspaper sources, and other archival sources to unpack the evolution of Ybor City from its inception as the center of the growing Cuban and American cigar industry in the 1880s to its near total demolition during Urban Renewal in the 1960s. Throughout the book, McNamara emphasizes the many roles of Latina women in Ybor City. They were laborers, activists, and mothers that were key figures in their community. The stories and agency of these women are central to the narrative of the book, which also offers a much broader history of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/279/image/coversmallYbor City: Crucible of the Latina South by Sarah McNamara (review)2026-03-04text/htmlen-USYbor City: Crucible of the Latina South by Sarah McNamara (review)2026-03-042026TWOProject MUSE®119942026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-03-04