Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph W. Jones Room. Developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
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...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...constrain the work of healing or moving beyond the unritual.5bell hooks, "Beyoncé's Lemonade is capitalist money-making at its best," in The Guardian, May 11, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/11/capitalism-of-beyonce-lemonade-album. As bell hooks points...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
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...
Failed Memory Exercise
...the trains don’t stop and no one's keeping store. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 34-35. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009 Rodney...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...
Bodies and Souls
...located in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Created by Wikimedia Commons user Arkyan. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. After making Waking in Mississippi, I moved to Boston where I spent four years...