Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...provide access for the print-disabled held to be transformative use and, on balance, fair use. Digitization to provide for print-disabled students held to be (i) an obligation of universities under...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...eighteen graduate students from the University of Mississippi, the University of Ulster, and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Spatial issues loomed large in these divided societies — the Jim Crow South...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...and place. But we can do better. We are a primarily academic publication housed in a university setting and staffed by graduate students and faculty members. We recognize we are...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...College of Design. Boone works at the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design, digital media, and interpreting cultural landscapes. He serves on the Board...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Copied by Davis Foute Eagleton, Great Grand Son of Rev. Richard Hugg King. Austin College, Sherman, Texas, October, 1912)," typescript, 60. The zeal with which New Light Presbyterians emphasized guilt...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...of AL.com and Alabama Media Group. About the Author Ellen Griffith Spears is an associate professor in the interdisciplinary New College and the Department of American Studies at the University...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Jesús F. de la Teja, ed., Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010). Presidents Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison shied away from Texas...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...shifted to the city's North Side, catering mainly to younger white patrons, students and tourists. Resisting these trends, Artis’s remained on the South Side, retaining the spirit of the earlier...