The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...that the city's residents constructed their own mental geographies based on the city's soundscapes. Domestic help boarding streetcar, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. May 1939. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...Contributing to a segment titled "Defining Diversity, Segregated Cities, Break It Down: Gerrymandering," Pooley spoke about her research on Atlanta's demographics and school segregation. Suburbanizing Atlanta, Georgia, March 31, 2009....
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
..."catalyst [and] economic juggernaut for US development."1Pellom McDaniels III, interview with author, December 14, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. Detail of 19th-century passbook. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...it." It is June 23, 2016: just ten days after a gunman killed forty-nine people at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida. You sit in the Kashi Atlanta Urban...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...McEwan's novel, Lessons (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), is scheduled for September 2022. CDC Main Campus, Atlanta, GA. Image in public domain. From my perspective as a recently retired...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
Introduction Craig Womack: Welcome, everybody, to Atlanta and to Emory University. Welcome to a place where Muscogee Creek people have had government, jurisdiction, and land tenure since time immemorial—way back...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007