Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
Debby Holcombe, Cover of booklet for "Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music," 2012. Image courtesy of the Center for Public History, University of West Georgia. On April 14, the exhibition...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...work documenting the stories of the pioneers and legends who helped to create New Orleans rap and bounce. Housed by the Amistad Research Center and the Tulane University Digital Library,...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...a cultural center in the 1960s kicked off a "racialized remapping" of the neighborhood (28). In the 1980s new residents straddling color and class lines were drawn to the neighborhood's...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Binding," in Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts, ed. Charles Alexander (Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1995), 47. Kennedy's posters, on which he literally spells...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...no longer "the center of the political universe." To me this was wrongheaded. First of all, as Jim Cobb pointed out in his own reaction to the piece, since when...
"Aint that Something?"
...from Oregon's RACC, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. He's been awarded fellowships or scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...Dowda. Atlanta-based photographer Stephanie Dowda is a studio artist with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and also maintains a darkroom at the Goat Farm Arts Center. A Georgia State University...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...temporarily and inadequately—corners of respite from the indignities of Jim Crow. Pavilion scene, Carr's Beach, Maryland, July, 1956. Used with permission from WANN Radio Station Records, Archives Center, National Museum...