Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...lacked basic services. Meanwhile, whites with means moved upward and outward from the city's industrial core. The higher ground surrounding Birmingham also provided space for white leisure, including the overlook...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...worked with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to select and interpret materials for an internet exhibition of quilt-related collections as part of the National Digital Library....
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...project brought luminaries of the arts and sciences to the island as a retreat center for study and discussion; notable participants included composer Aaron Copeland, writers Ralph Ellison, Margaret Atwood,...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...the center of Africa suggests the mapmakers conceived of the continent as a landmass encasing a giant body of water.3See Gari Ledyard, "The Kangnido: A Korean World Map, 1402." In...
The Chesapeake Bay
...Engineering Center. Some of the most exciting scholarship on the Chesapeake Bay emerged out of a recent series of National Science Foundation-sponsored conferences between historians, geologists, paleobiologists, archaeologists, and environmental...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...from a commercial center for Jewish patrons, to African American, to Hispanic patronage. In 1994 the market was relocated—swept up in the expansion of the University of Chicago. From the...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...the Court. We did that in McGirt and in Murphy. Our primary client was the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, a large national Native nonprofit that's dedicated to ending violence...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...services such as food, shelter and drug treatment programs without providing job-readiness and employment placement programs result in only modest success at helping clients avoid re-incarceration. The lack of work...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) at Emory University has launched a self-guided mobile tour of Battle-related sites throughout the city, complete with maps, historical information, photos and videos,...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...