MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...co-founded NEXUS, Atlanta’s first photography gallery, in 1973. Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, Simone studied at the Rhode Island School of Design with modern American photography master Harry Callahan. Simone’s photos...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Geography
1. At the bottom of the exit ramp my father waits for us, one foot on the curb, right hand hooked in the front pocket of his jeans, a stack...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...monument to some of the dead. Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...eds. Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 40. Historically, Appalachian women had tended to the broken bodies of miners and industrial workers,...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997). Andra Gillespie is an associate professor of political science at Emory University. Gillespie, who studies racial and...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967. McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...
Remnants of Flannery
Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...unstable" (103). View of a WCTU parade in Tallahassee, Florida. 18--. Courtesy of State Archives of Florida. Willis deftly weaves a colorful cast of characters and groups into the narrative:...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...