The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
Introduction to the Battle of Atlanta Project Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the American Panorama Company. The fall of...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...http://t4america.org/blog/2012/08/07/is-metro-atlanta-vote-a-bellwether-for-transportation-funding/. Robert Carpenter, Tax day Tea Party protest, Atlanta, Georgia, April 15, 2009. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman, the region's trust deficit did not develop by accident...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Labor in 1988.21Atlanta Labor Pool Worker's Union, Atlanta's Hardest Working People: A Report on Day Labor Pools in Metro Atlanta, (Atlanta: Atlanta Labor Pool Workers' Union, n.d., 1997). This report...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...GA: Longstreet Press, 1990). She also wrote the foreword to Peter Beney's collection of photographs titled Atlanta: A Brave and Beautiful City (Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1986) and the text for The...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of the Famed Battle of Atlanta (Atlanta, GA: City of Atlanta, 1954), 25. Davis shared his recollections of the fighting, and he helped the panorama team gather additional information from...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...decades ago. The recent history of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)3Officially the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, the "metro Atlanta" region includes the following twenty-eight counties: Barrow, Bartow,...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...two hundred mules and horses.8Jean Martin, Mule to MARTA (Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1975), 10. When the smaller Gate City Street Railroad was sold in 1889, its assets included seven cars and...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...neighborhoods. Ethnic Spaces and Flows in the Atlanta Ummah Atlanta's African American and South Asian Muslims tend to live and worship in separate spaces. But important features of the Atlanta...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...of southern rural industrial workers were coerced through indebtedness or threat of physical violence. Men such as Henry Morrison Flagler of the Florida East coast Railroad, and Milton H. Smith...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963–80 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005). In a film based on the Stevens campaign, Norma Rae (Sally Fields) holds up a...