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...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the drowned while teasing out the links between environmental degradation, those thrown overboard during the Middle Passage, and the migrants who drown while crossing the Mediterranean today. From these...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph W. Jones Room. Developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...311–328. The largest public health cataclysm in a hundred years has put to the test assumptions, capacities, decisions, practices, and policies. In many ways, the United States has been found wanting,...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...wonder, has our imagination of what the United States looked like and felt like in the nineteen-thirties been determined not by novel or play or a poem or a painting...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...