The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...ushered in the final and most precipitous decline of that industry. Although mine owners and operators had long exploited workers, mining was for many years the best paying work around....
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...all, it is for his unwillingness to bestow Atlanta's Games with the honor of "the greatest in Olympic history" - that coveted rhetorical flourish lauding the host city's organizing efforts....
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...University in spring 2013 and drew about 125 people; the second was held at Georgia State, and this year's symposium will take place at Georgia Institute of Technology on May...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Mike Disfarmer of Heber Springs, Arkansas; Paul Kwilecki of Decatur County, Georgia; Hugh Mangum of Durham, North Carolina; J. W. Otts of Hale County, Alabama; O. N. Pruitt of Columbus,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...states of the former Confederacy,1See George Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984); Lou Faulkner Williams,...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
..."Vanishing" Texan and the retrenchment of Texas masculinity. In "You a Real Cowboy?: Texas Chic in the Late Seventies," he reviews the iconic films The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
Georgia Postcard
...Highway Church of God: "You come in here and pray." Roadkill, and blackbirds that pick at it, Chain gangs, and fat scarlet clover in rippling flocks — a North Georgia...
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...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Photograph by unknown creator. Originally published in Julian Rankin's Catfish Dream: Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2018)....