The Black Belt
...sense — that is, to designate the counties where the black people outnumber the white. Black and white portrait of WEB Dubois, ca. 1918. Photograph by C.M. Battey. Courtesy of...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
Video Transcript 0:28 – This is the Cabretta Island relict marsh, which crops out along the sandy shoreline of Cabretta Beach. Near it are a tidal channel, salt marshes, tidal...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...a time, birthing death. Though sometimes it all works out. I turn a calf's head and then like a safe's combination the womb unlocks, calf slides free, or this night...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...happened: Union General William Sherman's headquarters during the Battle, on the campus of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library; Confederate General John B. Hood's vantage point for the Battle, within what...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Village Called Boekoe, by Dutch cartographer Juriaan François de Friderici. It depicts the layout of Fort Boekoe, a fortified maroon settlement in what is today Suriname, in northern South America, that...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...one thinks they can. No integrated church service, concert, or program, no matter how powerful, can or should erase history. Skeptics of all political persuasions can easily cast every representation...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...a calf's head and then like a safe's combination the womb unlocks, calf slides free, or this night when stubborn life got back on its feet, round eyes clear and...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...tour to a kind of twenty-first century historical marker—one that can hold an unlimited amount of text, accommodate images and video, and can be updated as new research comes to...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...that I hired to track down historical film and video of Black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at failing to find much archival...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...relations between current AUC students and their host neighborhood. On the contrary. During my time as a Morehouse undergraduate, I stayed primarily on campus and rarely connected with the West...