ROA's graffiti at 209 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012
...conference organized by Living Walls Atlanta in 2011. It is located on the east side of the building, facing Forsyth street, at the corner of Mitchell street in downtown Atlanta....
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Eastern Branch in the District of Columbia, in present day Anacostia, age forty-two, born in Maryland around 1821. The 1870 census shows William and Bridget Tinney living east of Seventh...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Georgia students came from suburban Atlanta and had grown up with a dose of post-civil rights movement Sunbelt optimism. Musician Vic Varney, a member of the Tone Tones and the...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...locations.7John R. Logan and Harvey Molotch, "Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the Neighborhood," in Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987): 99–146; David Harvey,...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Howell Homes, center, Techwood Homes, left, Georgia Institute of Technology, bottom. Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940. Photocopy of photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS GA,61-ATLA,63--2. View of playground...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...the future of Latino-African American relationships in the US South. At this past January's conference of the American Historical Association in Atlanta, I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Mary...
Besieged Terrain
...the mountains. The Blue Ridge extends from Mount Oglethorpe, thirty-five miles north of Atlanta, through North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, ending at Pennsylvania's South Mountain. West of the Blue Ridge...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a book on Indian removal. Previous books include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), A New Order...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...England, nineteenth-century Georgia, and among contemporary singers. One remarkable story concerns the three Lancaster sisters of Georgia, all singers and fine Sacred Harp composers, whose family music history goes back...