Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...evolving distribution of historical power. "As Charleston proves better than any American city, the memory of slavery has always been fraught and contested ground" (349). The book's title, which refers...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
No Place
Video About the Author Minnie Bruce Pratt's books include The Sound of One Fork (1981), Yours in Stuggle (1984), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1990),...
Birdhouses
...for Academic Affairs at Virginia Military Institute. His publications include Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and three books on Erskine...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...University, he not only conducted pioneering empirical research on Black life, but also became the leading theorist and activist on racial equality. Challenging Booker T. Washington's accommodation to political and...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...just know this thing happened to real people, not somebody in the history books. It could happen again to anybody, if we don’t hold together. Local activists feel that historical...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...or recollect the absences of . . . the ones that made the journey."4Toni Morrison, "A Bench by the Road." For further information on MPCPMP visit middlepassageproject.org or the project's Facebook...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...Studies at Duke. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993); Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995); Local Heroes...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. His first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, was published by...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Brian Croxall, project manager and ECDS digital humanities strategist; and a presentation on the Civil War collections at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Randy Gue, MARBL curator...