Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...historic Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon, Georgia. Included here are three songs, a standard blues and two instrumentals composed by Leavell. Part 2: Leavell performs “Song for Amy” live at...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...time Jerry) Jones and I met forty years ago as coworkers—freight clerks and passenger ticket agents at the Greyhound bus station in Jackson, Mississippi. I was a high school senior....
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...realms of the living and the non-living. Ellen Schattschneider, Arrival of car, Moore's Ford, Georgia, 2009. Each year, the Atlanta-based sponsors of the reenactment, including prominent African American political figures...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship and Georgia State University's Cities Initiative and the Department of Geosciences invite proposals for presentations at the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...“Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music” opened at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, Georgia. The first of a dozen stops in Georgia of “New Harmonies” (a project of the...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...AIDS and the struggle of LGBT carriers to overcome persistent social stigma. Jesse Peel, MARBL Woodruff Room, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2012. Photograph by Bryan Meltz of Emory University Photo Video....
Jellyfish at the Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007