American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...ecology of Louisiana's ongoing crisis—approximately one football field of land loss per hour.1Nathaniel Rich, "The most ambitious environmental lawsuit ever," New York Times Magazine, October 2, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/02/magazine/mag-oil-lawsuit.html. In the...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
As part of the "Appalachia Rising: Voices from the Mountains" conference held in September 2010, protesters participated in a day of action in the nation's capital to increase awareness of...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...due to both budgetary constraints and lack of prosecutorial resources. Today, approximately twenty cold cases remain open and unresolved. While one re-opened case has resulted in a successful prosecution, the...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...at the Woodruff library said that the exhibit, "Mobilizing the Battle of Atlanta," chronicles how the tour application was created and the research that went into it. Bruchko, Croxall, Pollock,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...Salafia's words: "However clear it appeared on a map, the Ohio River border blurred as white and black Americans crossed it" (71). Salafia demonstrates that even the act that ultimately...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...clutched my shoulder and screamed like a catamite. When we ratcheted to a full stop he said Again. We went on the Scrambler, the Apple Turnover, the Log Flume. We went...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...college town dominated by college football and beer-drinking Greeks create an avant-garde approach to rock and roll? “They’re freaked out, especially in the states, that bands with any measure of...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...has been pressing for a memorial to the Freedom Riders in Anniston for fifteen years. Since 1994, when Calhoun first approached the Anniston City Council about supporting a marker, she...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...one by writing appropriate narration, using an upbeat midwestern voice, and adding music. We created our own newsreel company with logo. Complaining that you cannot create artifacts, some historians have...