Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
...sketch in the Montgomery Advertiser by Erica Pippins. See David J. Garrow, "The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott," Southern Changes 7, no. 5 (1985), for an overview of the WPC’s role in the...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...and county residents. It also provided residents a space to exchange news and gossip. Photograph courtesy of the Herald-Journal Willis Collection, Spartanburg County (SC) Public Libraries. North Converse House, Spartanburg,...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...the meetups are creating that space and those forums where we might see a lot of productive exchange and take advantage of the remarkable research institutions that are located here."...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...were evaporating. Herndon tried to rescue her efforts, appealing to David Belasco. But in spite of her repeated attempts to schedule a meeting, Belasco was unavailable. Had he changed his...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Boots and on the road.3See the riff on the “gospel impulse,” in Craig Werner, A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and Soul of America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...to a close. Virginia and the South have changed in profound ways in the fifty years following that centennial, but the burden of explaining the Civil War remains. Virginia’s Sesquicentennial...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...restore or maintain the forest's original domain across the South. In discussing private ownership of forests and wood production, the authors do not account for the enormous changes of recent...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of movie film. As the viewer moves closer, the details that change from print to print become clear. At an intimate distance, the multiple Coleman’s Cafés suggest a child’s annual...
Local Color
...White writers might harness the potential for nostalgia in local color to exploit fear of change or frustration with the complexities of the present; African American writers could answer by...