Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...delivered them to the KKK lynch mob waiting at the Moore’s Ford Bridge.) 6 p.m. - Arrive at the Moore’s Ford Bridge for the Reenactment Ceremony and Call for Justice: Arrest and...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Emory News. The section is expected to expand as the new website takes off. The website publishes original scholarship on a monthly basis; the first article is Boyd Lewis' "Living at...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...rights movement, careers in social work and business, and her experiences as a wife, mother, and grandmother. A native of High Point, North Carolina, Magee lived most of her adult...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...for $3,750. Straddling bubbling Stewart's Creek outside the village of Mount Airy, this 650-acre farmland would become their Xanadu—or, more pertinent and closer to home, their Monticello. On this new...
Finding Media
...members, as well as many other pieces of media. For Joseph Crespino’s essay on the Strom Thurmond monument, we asked a friend of the staff in Columbia to take a...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...on topic modeling, a text mining technique which uncovers topics and word distributions for massive amounts of text.2Sharon Block, "Doing More with Digitization: An Introduction to Topic Modeling of Early...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...on Reed Mountain and Ramsey Ridge. The blasting of mountainside and the filling of valleys for this link of new highway displaced more than forty families, and forced the relocation...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...school classmates back East, who mocked him for his heavy drawl and motivated him to shed all traces of his Missouri accent and, in the long run, to adopt the...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...Assembly since April in a series of "Moral Monday" demonstrations over a variety of Republican-led legislative actions, from changes in election rules to drastic cuts in unemployment benefits, education, and...