Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...campaign and the most consequential, and it took place in our midst." The mobile tour gives visitors a chance to remember the Battle's significant moments in the areas where they...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Americas to house the government seat of a European empire. In 1808, King João VI and his family spent one month in Salvador before moving on to Rio de Janeiro;...
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...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...of twelve significant moments in the Battle of Atlanta," Croxall said. "To learn that the first shots were fired near a local high school or to realize that its most...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...in terms of its methods and conceptual vocabulary. Loichot's powerful juxtapositions showcase the poetic possibilities of creating a network of oeuvres motivated by the desire to heal and move beyond...
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...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Universities that include Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University. While these institutions share West End real estate, close proximity does not necessarily imply longstanding...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Salon without losing the essence of the event. People were up and moving around and able to sit by different guests, sharing the experience. And then to end the evening...
Frank Willis
...I dance in toe shoes to the Beach Boys, in shame. Growing up in Washington I rode D.C. Transit, knew Senators, believed the Washington Monument was God's pencil because my...