Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...city here, but we lost all and moved here. And we are very glad that we moved here. Very pleasantly surprised to have such good neighbors." Knox, interview by author,...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17556_10. Allen Tullos, senior editor: I've just read Daniel Kehlmann's novel Tyll, about a legendary trickster figure and courtly fool travelling in...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...North Carolina Press, 2007). Thanks to Allen Tullos for his encouragement and editorial acumen. About the Author Anthony E. Kaye is an assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University,...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
O'er this wide extended country, Hear the solemn echoes roll, For a long and weary century, Those cries have gone from pole to pole; See the white man sway his...
Local Color
...Grace King, Kate Chopin, Mollie E. Moore Davis, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Ruth McEnery Stuart). It is possible that the feminization of local color contributed to the genre's loss of popularity;...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...