Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...Henry Richards, Jan. 17, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 15, to Thomas McCarty, Jan. 17, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 16, and to Robert Smith, Jan. 18, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 21,...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940 and the forthcoming Rebel, Rebel: Why We Love Outsiders and the Effects of This Romance on Postwar American...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...by an African American artist to become part of the Gibbes' collection: Claude Clark's Old Swede's Church, 1940. Only long after its accession did it become known that its printmaker...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...poet whose work critiqued the Revolution and its leaders in his moment, 1967–68, leading to his arrest, torture, and subsequent exile to the United States in 1980. Padilla worked many...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Public Information for the University of South Florida. He was a staff writer for Southern Education Report, 1965–1969, and for Race Relations Reporter, 1969–1971. In 1971, Egerton began his career...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...of the Civil Rights Movement (Boston: Bedford, 1994); Stephen J. Whitfield, A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: The Free Press, 1988). Mace also repeats...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...a seemingly mundane phrase, but a phrase that speaks so much about American culture. You know, one must perpetually perform some aspect of American success ideology—whether it's a coming out...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...brick by brick."5Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 148. For residents whose homes were built—brick-by-brick—by fellow African Americans, from conception to financing to development...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...which parcels they occupied.9The Cherokee Phoenix, Nov. 24, 1832, reprinted in "From the Cherokees," The Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, Jan. 11, 1833, 2, http://www.newspapers.com; The Cherokee Intelligencer, Feb. 23, 1833, 1,...