Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Cyclorama painting by the American Panorama Company, photographed by Michael Page, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Click/tap and drag to navigate within the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...a wider awareness of violence and racial control. Editors knew well that papers elsewhere would pick up and reprint their reporting. The bonfire also had the cruel effect and intent of...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
Frank Willis
...door latch. Cog, cog, cog in the wheel of history, Frank Willis in Jet these years later, like the shouted spray-paint on an empty garage in my parent's back alley:...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...in Island People, another titan of travel writing hovers over many of its pages. Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands (1950) seems Island People's...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Xavier Blk and Will Edmond, two of Atlanta's hottest DJs and party promoters, discussed their business philosophy and the "creative" benefits of living as a collective. Finally, hometown R&B singer, Donnie,...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...LiFT Art Salong Facebook page, November 22, 2015. Courtesy of Lift Art Salon. My scholarly interests and newfound archival passions come together in the monthly LiFT art salons that bring...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Monica (Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 2004). The Hotel Ponce de Leon, the Hotel Alcazar, and the Hotel Cordova line King Street, just steps from the Plaza de la Constitución (Figures 41–43).30The...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Palm Tavern, talks about how the once famous 42nd Street strip has deteriorated. The Palm Tavern functioned as an unofficial clubhouse for generations of African American musicians, including Duke Ellington,...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...be held. Light refreshments will be served. The Robert W. Woodruff Library is located at 540 Asbury Circle in Atlanta, Georgia 30322. Parking is available in the Fishburne parking deck....