CAROLINE ROSE PEYTON is a historian of the American South, whose research specializes in the intersection of environment, technology, and society. In 2017, she was awarded the American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize for the best article published outside Environmental History and the Southern Historical Association’s Jack Temple Kirby Prize for “Kentucky’s ‘Atomic Graveyard’: Maxey Flats and Environmental Inequity in Rural America,” published in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

Radioactive Dixie is a dynamic, engaging, and very needed addition to the field of energy history that shows how communities and environments in the American South were integral to the strange story of mid century nuclear research and development.

CAROLINE ROSE PEYTON is a historian of the American South, whose research specializes in the intersection of environment, technology, and society. In 2017, she was awarded the American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize for the best article published outside Environmental History and the Southern Historical Association’s Jack Temple Kirby Prize for “Kentucky’s ‘Atomic Graveyard’: Maxey Flats and Environmental Inequity in Rural America,” published in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

Radioactive Dixie is a dynamic, engaging, and very needed addition to the field of energy history that shows how communities and environments in the American South were integral to the strange story of mid century nuclear research and development.

CAROLINE ROSE PEYTON is a historian of the American South, whose research specializes in the intersection of environment, technology, and society. In 2017, she was awarded the American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize for the best article published outside Environmental History and the Southern Historical Association’s Jack Temple Kirby Prize for “Kentucky’s ‘Atomic Graveyard’: Maxey Flats and Environmental Inequity in Rural America,” published in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

Radioactive Dixie is a dynamic, engaging, and very needed addition to the field of energy history that shows how communities and environments in the American South were integral to the strange story of mid century nuclear research and development.