Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...and Leggett's Hill, where the Battle's most ferocious fighting took place, now the intersection of Moreland Avenue and I-20, to name just a few. Many important Battle of Atlanta sites...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...building combined elements of a department store, a battlefield reenactment, and a UFO. Its saucer of a roof covered life-sized dioramas, uniformed mannequins engaged in battle. The museum boasted the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...twenty-first. Yellow fever, malaria, hookworm, pellagra, and industrial accidents shape life in the developing world. In Atlanta, known as the "public health capital of the world," recent headlines compared the...
Seneca Quarry
...the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992. The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. In all of my research, the 1823 federal...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...state from participating in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or increasing eligibility for Medicaid, even though Medicaid expansion—fully paid by the federal government for three years and ninety...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...pathologies laid bare by the Peterson case—compelled Truman Morrison to break off the courtship and break rank with his wealthy family. Inspired by her father's life of activism, Melanie Morrison...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...the city’s segregated hotels for most of his life. When massive resistance raged against civil rights in the 1950s, he boycotted his hometown, returning only after the passage of the...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...citizens buttressed by the federal mechanism of voting rights enforcement. The Supreme Court will decide before this year's Independence Day which is more important: our constitutional framework of federalism in...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...author of Wishing for Snow: A Memoir (2004), The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading (2002), and The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference (1990), and...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...