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...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...this region that includes counties with some of the highest rates of poverty and highest percentages of Democratic voters in the United States. "I truly thank him for coming. It...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Star State, across the South, and indeed, across the entire United States, were vigorously undoing the gains achieved by blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction, all the while imposing...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...towns to Miami Beach and back. Dixie Highway foregrounds the political challenges in conceiving and creating an integrated, cross-country road in an era when the United States lacked a coordinated...