Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...of Washington, where I was from 1993 until 1998. JAMES: I've read about your wanting to get away from West Virginia when you were growing up. Center of Romney, WV,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...interventions as ephemeral, morphing, and discursive memorials. Using source material from the Atlanta History Center's collection of lesbian and gay oral histories and from local news reports, John Q will...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...to the work of CDC and public health. Previously she led Nexus Contemporary Art Center (now Atlanta Contemporary Art Center) and served as assistant curator at the Atlanta Historical Society...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...drew neighborhood boundaries dramatically; runaways acknowledged these boundaries furtively, by avoiding contact with slaves outside their neighborhood whenever possible. As a terrain of both solidarity and struggle, neighborhoods proved rough...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...a paragraph, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, published the same year as Gone with the Wind, places race and miscegenation at its center. In fictions that often did not provide solutions or...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship and Georgia State University's Cities Initiative and the Department of Geosciences invite proposals for presentations at the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...contributed to the content/ of this online presentation of the Prop Master exhibit. Gibbes Executive Director and Chief Curator Angela Mack conceived of the idea to contact Susan and Juan...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...one at a time, to a foundation square of fabric, then pressed back over the seam, building the pattern outward from the center. Log Cabin quilts can be made from...