Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...He highlights the roles of New South politicians Charles Aycock and Robert Glenn, elected as Democratic governors in 1900 and 1904. Throughout, Clegg skillfully maneuvers between telling the stories of...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Linda Hopper, and David Pierce opened for Michael Stipe, lead singer for the then-new and not-very-well-known band R.E.M., at the 40 Watt Club. Michael performed solo that night, accompanied by...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...people and places that foregrounds photography’s jumbling of time. In very different ways, they hold the place or person—the subject—steady so time can float free. William Christenberry, Greensboro, Hale County,...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal. She received both her MA and PhD in English from the University of Tennessee and is the...
Brushes with War
...eyes on veterans wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, while most Americans were looking elsewhere.1 A CBS interview with Michael Fay is at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57427637/sketching-veterans-recovering-from-war-so-their-stories-arent-lost/. His blog, "Fire and Ice," is at...
Ellipsis
White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...the Freedom Riders they've chased from Anniston, still smoked out and choking on the grass. So much else is gone — the grocery where the driver ran "for help," the...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...to highlight the the wealth of resources available at area libraries and museums, and to enhance connections between scholars, institutions, and libraries. Some potential themes for presentation topics include (but...
The Black Belt
...of the modern American freedom struggle. In the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the figures of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. helped bring international attention to the mass mobilization...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...like churned butter, my eyes closed, freed my mind into the light on the window’s other side, followed the dreamy bell-ring of Randy Ford's cows across Licklog Creek to a...