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...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Commission, the largest in the nation, began its work in 2006 with a statement that would have been unimaginable in 1961: “It is important to know that it is not...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...morning into night. I want his seed to die in this water. I want his mouth wounded with slime. Tuscaloosa. I will push him into that river, this warrior of...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...urban renewal. And although I kind of objected to being displaced, because I had a business there, and I had great plans for improvement in the community, south of the...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...until its closure in 2009. Operating once a week, it attracted both local and out-of-state buyers. Initially, the auction sold both cattle and hogs, gaining a reputation as one of...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...in the Atlanta metro area, analyzing the complex mobility politics of a southern urban center. A recent New York Times article highlights similar transportation issues plaguing rural communities in Texas....
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...made a city in their own image. The important thing, Powell implies, is not where New Orleans was born, but how and why it has survived and what it may...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...in its medical sense since one of the ravages of the sugar industry is the diabetes epidemic in the world's sugar-producing and consuming regions.6 In sugar cane producing French Overseas...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...black men in New Orleans, particularly in the context of hyper-incarceration—one in fourteen black males in the metro region today are imprisoned.4Cindy Chang, "Louisiana Is the World's Prison Capital," NOLA.com,...
A Mess of Poke
...it through its first braising in salted boiling water. I drained it, rinsed it, boiled it again in new salted water. I drained it, rinsed it, and boiled it a...