1108 Dynamite Hill
...times, the scenic window now only exists in photographs. After sustaining several bombings and much gunfire, the Drews had the home rebuilt with a new structure designed to endure bomb...
Submission Guidelines
...analysis of culture, often using interviews and performance of particular human activity; Documentary: journalistic video that seeks to explore its content through a preponderance of visual evidence; and Lyric: video...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...primarily Cherokee and Creek, who escaped the Trail of Tears and took refuge in remote regions such as the Okefenokee. The great swamp also was a hiding spot for runaway...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...and Rare Book Library (MARBL) related to the Civil War and the Battle of Atlanta, which took place July 22, 1864. Designed to enrich people's understanding of Atlanta and its...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...12 Years a Slave "torture porn" in his City Arts review, likening it to the Saw franchise and the—quite literally—execrable Human Centipede. 12 Years a Slave does depict slavery as...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...proudly and safely into the straight world outside the confines of bars and clubs once designated specifically as "gay spaces." Fifty years ago, none of those things was true. Queer...
Roadside Architecture
...photographs that follow are of portions of the humanly-made physical landscape in Mississippi and other parts of the deep South. More specifically, they focus on buildings in rural or, occasionally,...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...enormous human cost of our national obsession with cars and car culture, an aspect of American life that has flourished in the US South and in popular culture representations of...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...culture unless we're careful." Here, she defines "culture" not as a particular art form or creative expression, but as a "special insight that connects us to something human."1Arthur Jafa, Dreams...