"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...is defined by its spatial organization as much as by its musical style. In this form of shape-note music, an assembled "class" of singers gathers at annual events called "singings"—weekend...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Morgan County at age fifteen, he went to Atlanta. He was allowed to attend a decent high school in Atlanta, which he could not have done in Madison. Atlanta was...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...was dismembering chickens at Gaddis Packing Company to pay his bills while helping the area's poultry workers organize. By year three, Fred Gaddis, the corporation's owner and Forest's mayor for...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...one another, and their ambiguous correlation underscores gay New Orleans apolitical climate at the time. In 1958, the first gay Mardi Gras krewe—"the Krewe of Yuga"—was formed, and later that...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...1950s displaced many Black Atlantans Part 7: Dr. Wiese describes long-term impacts of spatially-oriented discrimination Part 8: Dr. Wiese describes how recent suburbanization in Atlanta and across the US continues to reinforce...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Atlanta, Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886, Daniel A. Pollock's "The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance," May 30, 2014. Painting courtesy of Southern Spaces. Doster: Many of the pieces mentioned above...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...a number of other townspeople already lived. His brother-in-law helped him find work in a garment factory and within the next one and one-half years, he had saved enough money...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...spot along the Jordan, the cave ceiling hung so low that "[p]assengers are obliged to double up, and lie on each other's shoulders, till this gap is passed" (414). Mandeville...