The Black Belt
...which over half the population is Negro" lying "in a crescent from Virginia to Texas." With decades of steady out-migration from the South, the Black Belt also came to mean...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...rising tide on Cabretta Beach over the course of about five hours provides an example of tide-dominated processes on the Georgia coast. 1:22 – This is an overhead view of...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...such nights, because old as I am I'll still do what they refuse to, and soon I'm driving out of Marshall headed north, most often toward Shelton Laurel, toward some...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...serves as senior editor of Southern Spaces. He adds the project was particularly rewarding for Pollock, who not only has been able to share his knowledge of the Battle of...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...de mapas liberto: Estudo de atribuição de autoria (Bahia-Brasil, século XIX). In 8a SIAHC Siímposio Ibero americano de História de Cartografía/O mapa como elemento de ligação cultural entre a América e a...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...dealt frankly with slavery and race. All across the country, the commissions and other organizations have been working to acknowledge the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, determined to do...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...too late, hoping to save my fee for a salt lick, roll of barbed wire, and it's not all his own fault, poor too long turns the smartest man to...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Library continues to celebrate the launch of the Battle of Atlanta mobile tour website and commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle with a presentation and exhibit of materials on...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...sacredness on the places of these practices. The unritual comprises moments and spaces of desecration. Unritual occurs when rituals are ignored, violently suppressed or obstructed outright, and where so-called "natural"...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Chicago. This essay features two clips exploring the experiences of migrants to Chicago and the subsequent decline of the industrial opportunities that initially attracted them. Director George King provides insights...