Early Roller Coaster Patents
...a ride that was operated for the public, construction of a ride at Ponce de Leon Springs (Georgia) was reported in the Augusta Chronicle and the New York Times ["Sliding...
Stones and Shadows
...random. We step out of the car at the back of the graveyard, and my father leads me to a new headstone. Then he gestures to the ten letters cut...
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...
Submission Process
...Does the piece traffic in new and progressive ideas about US Souths or southern distinctiveness and nostalgia? Permissions: Would using the content or suggested media require extensive, expensive, or impossible permissions?...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...a hairsbreadth of starvation. Alvin Jewett Johnson, "Johnson's Map of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, 1863," from Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Library (MARBL), tells complex, personal, and painful stories that contribute to a new vernacular in the depiction and description of African American experience in the United States. In describing his...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and in the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Simone has also published two collections, On Common Ground: Photographs from the Crossroads of the New South...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...didn't answer him. I knew I didn't have to. He looked as if he knew exactly what I was thinking. "I wonder. I wonder." We shall overcome, We shall overcome...
Mapping Souths
Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...