Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph W. Jones Room. Developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...for remaining practitioners of country blues, they did not search the Lower Chattahoochee. In 1967, George Mitchell conducted field research in Mississippi, locating such blues musicians as Joe Callicott, who...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the activists caught the attention of Carson, who began investigating the impact of DDT across the country. That research culminated in the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, and Spears...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...already flailing American "marriage culture." Both social science research and anecdotal evidence back up the idea that divorce can have profound effects on all members of a family. However, this...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...touch with him. So, back to my being in school at UNC. I knew that I wanted to do dissertation research on Guatemala. Luckily, I had an advisor who had...