LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...The Hammonds House Museum. But urban hot spots do not emerge in a vacuum. Instead, they often pop up in black neighborhoods, crowding out institutions vital to artistic and cultural flourishing. Take for example,...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...family vacations included mandatory excursions to museums, libraries, and historical sites. To ensure that my little brother and I "enjoyed" cultural experiences of all stripes, we toured the Smithsonian in...
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...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
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...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...statues alongside the coral. Vicissitudes, a monument that explores the creative and memorial agency of Caribbean underwater spaces, serves as one of many objects that Valérie Loichot examines in her...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...like the gravestones of my kin, but the a cappella hymn sung by my great-aunt, this years before the Smithsonian taped her voice as if the song of some vanishing...
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...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...of Remembering (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed, If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...