Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Fred Fussell offers additional geographical and historical notes in A Chattahoochee Album: It is believed that Native American people . . . had lived in and around the Lower Chattahoochee...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Native American subsistence systems in the Delta changed over time to include various horticultural practices. The amount of horticulture and trade practiced by the Native American societies did not show...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...American bohemia. Yet Athens kids built the first important small-town American music scene and the key early site of what would become alternative or indie culture. We had grown up...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...empire abolished slavery. It seemed to be an era of emancipation. Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy joins a chorus of scholarship...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey has inserted into the American mind, through the channels of the gallery and the museum, indelible images of African American memory. The signature is immediately recognizable. Memory as Medicine—curated...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...University's theater offerings and gave Atlanta's African American community access to serious drama with professional stage sets and costumes. Moreover, she opened the university community to the American theater world,...