Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Archives collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy of Georgia State University. While state parks predated the national park system, it was not until...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
Introduction Herman J. Russell Home at 714 Shorter Terrace in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, 2015. In August 2015, the Collier Heights home of Herman J. Russell (1930–2014), African...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...that "Georgia tried to outdo its reputation for Southern hospitality," Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post nevertheless eschewed the conventional region-based reading of these Games when judging them "not really...
The Black Belt
...Georgia and the Carolinas in an epidemic of "Alabama Fever." Following the forced removal of Native Americans, the Black Belt emerged as the core of a rapidly expanding plantation area....
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...text of this essay comes from The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place (2012), edited by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster, courtesy of the University of Georgia Press....
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the Atlantic World (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). But Hubs of Empire is a remarkably well-accomplished synthesis. To successfully undertake a project of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...a geographic fantasy, or (in Duck's terminology) "the nation's region." Top, cover to Leigh Anne Duck's The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism (Athens: University of Georgia Press,...