Sams Gap, North Carolina
...Amberg. Workers spreading erosion control netting around the bridge abutments on the bridge over US 23 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Hikers on...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
...interdisciplinary, multimedia scholarship on the Atlanta metro region—a collection we have titled "Changing Atlanta." Readers interested in such work might also be interested in the new Atlanta Studies Network, which...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions. This event is free and open to the public. We are also cultivating research around Atlanta through the Atlanta Studies Network....
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
...of Rob Amberg. Power shovel loading 150-ton dump truck, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blasted mountainside covered with erosion control netting, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...interviewed residents of small towns in the rural South who reported believing internet rumors that Obama was a Muslim. It ran with the picture of Bill Pennington, a white barber...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Location Museum in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, surrounded by the township housing that survives from apartheid, and heard the memories of white activist Janet Cherry. We saw a remarkable documentary...
Off-Season
FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...on the old cash crop. The rail network distributed cotton throughout and beyond the South and stimulated in Atlanta the growth of banks and brokerages, mills and factories. Atlanta was...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...currently serving as visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory. Steve also works as a videographer for the forthcoming website "The Mother Nature Network."...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Miami, Florida, Key West, Florida, and Galveston, Texas. Some have affiliated into a loosely knit network independent of MPCPMP. As the only national organization working to commemorate Middle Passage sites,...