African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
Remnants of Flannery
...portrait of O'Connor as a dog, chose more radical methods and images to represent her. Hatfield states that she was attracted to the happenstance mix of "reverent, more traditional portraiture...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...than one hundred years of political and environmental history on the Savannah River and its tributaries as he analyzes the relationship between water, energy, and politics. Manganiello frames the history...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
Amos Kennedy Print, Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. On March 15, 2016, acclaimed printmaker Amos Kennedy, Jr. participated in a public conversation about...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...individualism combined with a religious ethic that parallels Max Weber's Protestant Ethic; and a belief in "the sustaining liberty of consciousness" whereby religious authorities developed a hierarchal identity that complemented...
The Border South
...in effect a moving border between slavery and freedom, between impressment and enlistment. There can be little doubt that secession and the Civil War was the defining feature for the...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...and the complex relationships between blacks and the land along waterfronts that range from the Potomac Flats in Washington, DC, through the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, down the Carolina...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...to the Brown Thrasher edition of his book Sacred Harp: A Tradition and its Music (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989 [1978]), vii–xiv; see also 154, 159. Stephen A. Marini...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Macon, Georgia, where southern music impresario Phil Walden had recently opened Capricorn Records and studio. There he joined Alex Taylor's (brother of James Taylor) band Friends and Neighbor for a...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...magazines and many New Deal agencies, including the FSA. Gordon Parks was the FSA's only Black photographer during the agency's eight-year existence between 1935 and 1943, serving as a Rosenwald...