The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...thirty-four years old), over six feet high, and a very handsome man in every way, was universally liked, and had many noble qualities. He had on his boots outside his...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...suburban subdivisions, but their spatial organization "typif[ies] the features of all suburban commercial development." Indeed, many drive-in theaters were ultimately leveled to make way for shopping malls or residential developments.2Lonnee,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...or in any other ways that black and white subjects were referred to on the air. These long-format news shows revealed powerful arguments for desegregation from articulate and compelling African...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...Courtesy of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company. Many of the songs in The Sacred Harp leverage specific features of the hollow square for musical and emotional impact. The three immersive...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, built in 1976 and named after Alabama Power and Southern Company board chairman, Alvin Vogtle. Photo by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. As...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...notions we imagined as utopia gave way instead to today's start-up mentality, the gig economy, and ballooning inequality. Many people whose opinions I value want the story of Athens to...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...who is always on the stage, will give away any information desired in regard to the battle, and he is remarkably well up on his history, and tells many interesting...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...When we revisited Avery Island, where many of Louisiana Story's sequences—especially those involving alligators—were shot, Shane K. Bernard, scholar of Cajun culture and history and curator of the McIlhenny Company's...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...