Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Brian Croxall, project manager and ECDS digital humanities strategist; and a presentation on the Civil War collections at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Randy Gue, MARBL curator...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...sand in offshore direction that is either shallowly submerged ore emergent during low tide. Storm-washover fan – Fan-like deposit of sand and/or debris formed by storm waves, often covering adjacent...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...Panorama Company. The stops are set up in chronological order of the Battle's events, but the tour can be stopped or started at any point. It concludes at the Atlanta...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...for a more honest accounting of the events that defined the US South for generations. No matter how much organizers strive to acknowledge the profound human costs and stakes in...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...followed in the form of letters written to the columnist in 2001–2002 is worth considering. Some letters warn the columnist of anthrax attacks, if he does not stop abusing his...
Seneca Quarry
...Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. The most remarkable part of the 1823 payroll is the annotation by Frank and Martin (see image, lines 31 and 32). Whoever signed for...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Rates in July 2013," National Conference of State Legislatures, August 20, 2013, http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/state-unemployment-update.aspx; Robbie Brown, "North Carolina Approves Steep Benefit Cuts for Jobless in Bid to Reduce Debt," The New...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...domain. Legend: Green: "Best"; Blue: "Still Desirable"; Yellow: "Definitely Declining"; Red: "Hazardous"; Grey: "Negro Concentrations"; Crosshatched Lines: "Commercial and Industrial"; Diagonal Lines: "Undeveloped." The imperative that a black man must...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
Review Cory Doctorow, Roped-up Satchmo statue, Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010. Area closed off since contractors poured pavement with bad cement and damaged the statue. Just across Rampart...