The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...mineral rights and vast landholdings, opening of the "billion dollar coalfields," growth of company towns and the exploitative trap of scrip (non-legal tender in which miners received wages), company stores,...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...labor, and open commerce," writes Karp, "these, for the proslavery South, were the lineaments of global modernity in the mid-nineteenth century" (169–170). Amid the domestic crises of the 1840s and...
And the Prize Goes to...
...studies. Finally, the class noted Delerme's combination of tools from linguistics and sonic studies that opened up her subjects in ways that left them wanting to learn more. One student...
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....
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
...lines in the road’s concrete surface being cleaned prior to the highway’s opening, Buckner Gap, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Fall Creek
...had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. Published in Raising the Dead (2003). Text may vary...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Send your proposals via email to ecds@emory.edu by 5:00 p.m. on January 17, 2014. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions....
Single Centers of Creation?
...is recycled from death, yet lush with life. For me an image that bores into the center of the earth, to our origins, is equally sacred as one that opens...
The Cobb County Braves
...Health Image Library, 1485. Originally called Centennial Olympic Stadium—the site was constructed for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics—the stadium hosted athletics competitions and opening and closing ceremonies. S. Zebulon Baker and...