"Aint that Something?"
..."racket." Most of the time Dawn stays with her grandmother, who is leading a grass-roots effort to petition the governor to stop the stripmining of Blue Bear Mountain, which rises...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The sounds of Hinton’s moment and Muscle Shoals’ moment are invoked in the very first song of Go-Go Boots. Part way through, “I...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...century a few southern states had established boards of health. By 1913, every southern state had established a state health agency, identified the insect carriers of malaria and yellow fever, and...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Conference: Beyond the Civil Rights movement," in Black Civil Rights Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era, ed. Ollie A. Johnson, III and Karin L. Stanford (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...the words of art historian Christopher Reed, to leave a "queer mark on the physical environment." They also map a move from figurative representation, through post-minimalist gestures, to shifting moments...
Work
...of doffers and fixers, of motion. I dream thread streaming from cotton icicles mounted on frames. Spinning dripping cones feeding hungry looms that pulse and ripple as they weave. Shuttles...
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...
Congregation
...table and chairs etched with rust, the dresser laced with mold. Four years gone she's still rebuilding the shed out back and sorting through boxes in the kitchen- a lifetime...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...left on Tyler Street Church is on your left (look for Church’s Chicken on the right). Coming I-20 West: Exit at Monroe Monticello Exit 98. Turn right. Stay on Highway...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...past, present, and future can take place among collaborating institutions and organizations." Atlanta Studies is not just for those in the academic arena, but for members of the public as...