MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...sixty major research institutions and libraries "working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future." The Authors Guild is group which advocates "for writers' interests...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...other natural markers which have long since disappeared. Kim Severson of The New York Times reported that the two states formed a joint boundary commission in the mid-1990s after a...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...Emory University Photo Video. Dr. Jesse Peel, psychiatrist and longtime AIDS and LGBT community activist, moved to Atlanta in 1976 where he opened a practice that served primarily gay men....
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...Spaces, MARBL presents clips of the full interviews to spur conversations and encourage research on the featured topics. Chip Simone. Photo courtesy of Chip Simone. Long-time Atlanta resident Chip Simone...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...combine the written word he privileges in his posters with the provocative space of a church building decorated with long strips of bible pages that leap almost flame-like across the...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons is excited to invite proposals for presentations at the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long symposium will be held on April 26, 2013 in...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
The Boatloads
...make, each day a longer list, the sheet curling at his toes. Back for another load, he moors his boat and begins calling out, Adam, Mary, Sarah, Thomas, running down...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...no longer "the center of the political universe." To me this was wrongheaded. First of all, as Jim Cobb pointed out in his own reaction to the piece, since when...