Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Austin. He recently published the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)....
Bodies and Souls
Bodies and Souls: Video and Essay When the body is falling apart, it's hard to pay attention to what your soul is telling you. —Sister Manette Durand Map of Jonestown,...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...bonding in the South. Longstreet in Georgia Scenes, published in 1835, mastered what became the staples of the form: skillful representation of dialect, keen interest in regional types and customs,...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of Tennessee Press, 1984); Christopher MacGregor Scribner, Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929–1979 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002); Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the Atlanta Panorama Company. As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta approaches,...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...finds a place above a falls where the water looks shallow and slow. The river is a boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, and she wants to wade into the...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship and Georgia State University's Cities Initiative and the Department of Geosciences invite proposals for presentations at the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long...
Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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Hill Brothers Short Log Harvesting
Sea Changes in Personhood
...collective subject in readings of American naturalist William Bartram (1739–1833). Bartram's drawings of flora, fauna, and Cherokee Americans are based on observations and notes taken during his journey to Georgia,...