Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...and Rare Book Library (MARBL) related to the Civil War and the Battle of Atlanta, which took place July 22, 1864. Designed to enrich people's understanding of Atlanta and its...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...which got bookings and publicity out of the shock value. But as Athens groups like Pylon, Love Tractor, R.E.M., and Oh-OK followed the B’52’s in playing important new music clubs...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...chapter on the state "North Carolina: The Progressive Myth," (New York: Basic Books, 1976), 218–247. Naked Partisanship All that has changed. With a Republican governor and Republican controlled legislature, legislation...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...presented in its introduction with the aims and the substance of the book. For instance, Guzmán clearly assumes that the civil rights movement occurred after World War II, an assumption...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...and the process of assembling the book, One Place. Part 3: A discussion of Kwilecki photographs that reveal insider-outsider tensions in Decatur County. Part 4: Kwilecki's subjects and the continuity...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...other vigilante practices. An emphasis on this widespread practice beyond the US South was critical to Michael Pfeifer's previous two books on lynching, and remains central in this new edited...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...