Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...when they sang it with their voices in their accents, performed it with their hands, and heard it with their ears? They did not use the term "southern music" in...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...gallons of heavy crude oil from Canadian tar sands as a result of the spill. The aging pipeline runs from Illinois to Texas and its rupture forced the evacuation of...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...other institutional spaces. In this way, Strang's study joins others that widen the scope of early American knowledge-making, including Susan Scott Parrish's American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...ed. Elzbieta Gozdziak and Susan Martin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002). Economic motivations have influenced domestic migration as well as attracted immigrants. Georgia has the third-fastest-growing foreign-born population rate in...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...island. In addition to ongoing environmental study, extensive archaeological research has occurred at St. Catherines with regard to Native American settlements, the Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale, and...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...lives anew. About the Author Susan Eva O'Donovan is associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. Her research interests include the history of enslaved women and men, the...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...opening prayer Sandra Green Thomas rose to address the congregation. Thomas, a descendant of the Harris and Ware families and president of the GU272 Descendants Association, waited a long moment...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...Even if damaged by work, coal miners still must provide medically sanctioned evidence of their "total disability"—i.e., complete inability to continue working—in order to receive financial compensation and legitimate relief...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...of Georgia gardener Ryan Gainey (1944-2016) with Cooper Sanchez and Matthew Chipman. Gainey is an acclaimed garden designer and author of The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Garden of Ryan Gainey...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...a time of heady optimism. Many believed anything was possible, even progress. The movement had its most visible roots in New York and San Francisco, but after it flared in...