Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
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...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...document slave sales in the market. As examples, the St. John's County Deed book cites the sale of "two slaves [Malvina and Gabina, both about nineteen] . . . at...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...world, to work for the treasure in heaven. So I sat waiting for Mama in the car, reading the Bible, opening the book of Revelations, longing for the place after...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...that easily lends itself to data entry. Collaboration is critical in the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. We have set up a wiki for the site and are trying to make that...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Sexuality: Volume One: An Introduction (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 78. The book's title is often translated as "Volume One: An Introduction." The "truth" of sex for Foucault is not...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
Writing Appalachia
...need to have a representative selection of Appalachian texts in one book because we teach Appalachian literature and have wished for such a book. The problem is not that the...