Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...the possibility of being unable to meet the water needs of its residents. For Manganiello, policy director at the Georgia River Network and an environmental historian, the 2008 crisis raises...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...of mutual aid groups helped supplement aid where state and local leadership failed. Georgia governor Brian Kemp refused to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously. In 2020, Georgia was the first...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Introduction: Shooting the Chutes at Early American Amusement Parks Lakewood Park's Shoot-the-Chutes, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1895. "The Shoot-the-Chutes ride at Lakewood Park was originally at the Atlanta International Cotton States...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...from work and shopping to show their economic impact, but were unable to stop the Georgia legislature from passing a bill to curtail government benefits to illegal immigrants. Organizers in...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...of Washington, the 1818 Treaty at Creek Agency, and the 1821–25 Treaty of Indian Springs, all Muscogee lands in Georgia were ceded. Emogene Williams, Newton County, Georgia. Photograph by and courtesy...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...internal politics in just one state: Georgia. Ingram defends this choice on the basis that Georgia had more Dixie Highway mileage than most other states, was heavily populated but poorly...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...desegregation.5Crenshaw, 376. Pre-Brown Map showing the location of Mableton, Georgia, 2012. Virginia Ward's people were "Indians from Black Hawk Hill," and they had owned property in Mableton for many years....
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...repositories. Indeed, in today's world, Africana archives are challenged to develop strategies for mining their collections and producing programs and events that help elevate their public visibility. In today's world,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...posted on their websites and promoted through all forms of social media, including Facebook. They described the kinds of constructive measures that have worked across Transylvania County to develop environmentally...