Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...many nights at the Sweet Gum Head in Padgett's book: pick up your copy to read more about Smith, John Greenwell/Rachel Wells, and the development of LGBTQ+ life across 1970s...
Bricking the Church
...a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek, The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, North Star, is forthcoming in 2015. In addition,...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of whom had fought at Peachtree Creek on July 20. The Confederate column continued its advance northward on the Fayetteville Road for a mile and a half beyond Cobb's Mill...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
A Green Democratic Revolution
...by the economic and administrative power apparatus."1André Gorz, Ecologica (Paris: Galilée, 2008), 48. A turning point was reached fifty years ago. In 1972, the Club of Rome published the report...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...a documentary artist. He had an expansive eye and a knack for recording habits and rituals from cradle to grave. He photographed infants in his studio and the dead in...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...address, Wallace had promised "segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever," and he assured voters that he would make every possible attempt to block federally...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...this pose in other photographs, sometimes appearing repeatedly in the same panorama (a result of pasting adjacent views together) and multiplying his gaze indefinitely. "A native peon's shack," annotated...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...roller coaster" is remarkably similar to the titles of both patents." - Victor Canfield. 2001. "U.S. Rollercoaster History From Patents" from http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/v/a/vac3/history.html) A. Wood, Circular Gravity Railway (U.S. Patent...