New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...during the civil rights movement. Banner from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride website, 2003. How do we make sense of these entanglements of a South contoured by a historical black-white...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...musicians and artists, including photographers, have found creative inspiration at the crossroads of darkness and light where a past haunted by violence and exploitation intersects with places teeming with natural...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...
Cover of darkness, Gasparilla invasion, Tampa, Florida, 2006
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Laboratory. Built as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II, Oak Ridge was one of three federal production sites housing workers and scientists who developed the atomic bomb....
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...sentimental, full of clenched drama and secrets and surprises but always subtle."5Quotes taken from Pancake's personal website, http://www.annpancake.blogspot.com. Pancake has received the Bakeless Literary Award for short story writing, a...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
Atlanta Studies website, 2015. Screenshot of Boyd Lewis's photo of Margaret Mitchell's apartment house. Courtesy of Emory News. The website includes Boyd Lewis's original article about living in Margaret...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...(Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1999); “Guatemala Peace Accords,” NACLA on the Americas (May/June 1997) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/140.html. The initial migration to the United States began during this period of armed conflict....
The Morning with Many Tongues
...website: www.seanhill.org. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from a December 17, 2008 conversation, Sean Hill talks about sources and influences of the poems in Blood Ties & Brown...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...tooth-rotting dark sugar water that is such a major portion of the world's diet and Atlanta's income. Stuckey's. That's what it reminds me of, the old chain of stores that...