Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...had become W. C. Handy's "franchise" of bands, traveling ensembles that played the southern college circuit.2Thadious M. Davis, "From Jazz Syncopation to Blues Elegy: Faulkner's Development of Black Characterizations," in...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center. The SCLC records at MARBL primarily document the presidencies of Ralph David Abernathy (1968–1977) and Joseph E. Lowery (1977–1997). The collection holds...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Brushes with War
...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of beautiful suburban homes have been erected...." ("New Houses Erected" Atlanta Constitution (March 8, 1894), p. 8 ) Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895 Published: 15 January 2008...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Emory College from its founding onwards. Over the course of the nineteenth century, on both sides of the Atlantic, the dead were increasingly re-settled in pastoral, garden-like settings, often in...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...Contributing to a segment titled "Defining Diversity, Segregated Cities, Break It Down: Gerrymandering," Pooley spoke about her research on Atlanta's demographics and school segregation. Suburbanizing Atlanta, Georgia, March 31, 2009....
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...historian Hampton Dunn, who recognized the priceless value of the archive as a record of Tampa history. Dunn paid Cox $500 for an unspecified number of the negatives, some of...