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...
The Chesapeake Bay
...Engineering Center. Some of the most exciting scholarship on the Chesapeake Bay emerged out of a recent series of National Science Foundation-sponsored conferences between historians, geologists, paleobiologists, archaeologists, and environmental...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Alabama, 1880s. The man in the center (wearing the apron) is the owner of the business, and the man on the right is holding a large stick with a possum...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...often themselves examples of brittle misunderstanding(s) of the conditions of their own labor. The Academy's big house, the "Euroamerican order of the center," and the black culture center's small house,...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Mitchell's apartment and the building's history, an example of the original scholarship encouraged by the collaborative publication. Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) is hosting a new website to...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...white oppression—as often they were—conveying the message that the power and keys to change rested with interventions of white citizens. "Fire Bomb Watch, Mileston, Mississippi, June 1, 1964." Community center...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...and Ellen Spears by January 31, 2011. Please contact us with ideas, questions, or concerns. We are glad to discuss proposed topics and multimedia possibilities before proposals are formally submitted....
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...and legacy of Reginald Shepherd.2This conversation took place at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship on August 6, 2024. Brown previously spoke with Natasha Trethewey for Southern Spaces in 2010....