Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...a land of multiracial social progress, the regional identity versus a national one, the national interest versus the international, amateur athletes versus professional ones, the integrity of the Olympic Movement's...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...She has also co-edited a collection of essays, Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault (1998), which brings together leading scholarship in the social sciences on the subject of sexual violence. Her...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...them through local newspapers. After World War II, rural depopulation caused local singing networks to contract, while improved infrastructure facilitated travel. During this time, a publication known colloquially as the...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...unique political, economic, and psychological importance to the Confederacy. It was a principal railroad hub, a vital source of material support for the war effort, and a bastion of hope...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the growing of rice. Trapping and hunting supplemented agricultural production, with communal identity reinforced through typical rural rituals such as house raisings, weekly house dances, horse racing, and traditional music....
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Essay Map of global ecoregions. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund. Environmental history emphasizes the role of humans as an integral part of their natural surroundings. Ecological systems and biological diversity,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
Introduction On January 15, 1909, US President-elect William Howard Taft attended a banquet at the Chamber of Commerce along with "the cream of Atlanta and the south's commercial factors, professional...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...prefer square, wooden buildings such as rural churches and schoolhouses. The pastoral lyrics provide continuity between many participants' rural experience and the image of heaven the songs describe. And, although...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...people view archives as the special, almost private, playland of scholars and intellectuals—scholars who essentially critique art and other forms of historical, political, social and cultural production or who mine...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of Pacific Rim communities, biological and cultural features of distinct regions, and in interdependence of all life along the Pacific Rim."1For a little of the bioregional history of Poet Townsend's...