Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir, 2011. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel...
Whiskey and Geography
Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). It was easy to get out; people did it all the time. With a day pass, you could catch a bus...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...film Some Like it Hot, once you have studied the history of Prohibition at the Miami-Caribbean borderlands, suggests that contemporaries seeing it for the first time might have understood the...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...and longtime civil-rights activist Faya Rose Touré. "That's why you don't see black people here."2Phillip Rawls, "McCain Takes GOP Campaign into Rural Alabama Democratic Turf," Associated Press, April 21, 2008;...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...are generally eager to talk. Crowds rarely exceed two dozen at any given time. Traditional blues bands as well as fraternities from nearby Delta State University sometimes book the lounge,...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that we’ve all experienced a tangle of time, a displacement from the normal markers and seasons, a confronting of the inequities that accompany a pandemic, a fuller view of vulnerability...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...