Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
Introduction: Series Editor's Note Martin Padgett's A Night at the Sweet Gum Head explores a cast of historical actors who shaped modern LGBTQ+ politics and culture in 1970s Atlanta, Georgia....
Anniversary
...of poetry include Murder Ballads (2005), A Murmuration of Starlings (2008, and Persons Unknown (2010). His poems appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review,...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
...(2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review....
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...to the Bear Branch exit because of the run-off from I-26, Sams Gap, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT boundary marker, near Sams Gap and the Appalachian Trail,...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...ecology of Louisiana's ongoing crisis—approximately one football field of land loss per hour.1Nathaniel Rich, "The most ambitious environmental lawsuit ever," New York Times Magazine, October 2, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/02/magazine/mag-oil-lawsuit.html. In the...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
As part of the "Appalachia Rising: Voices from the Mountains" conference held in September 2010, protesters participated in a day of action in the nation's capital to increase awareness of...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...due to both budgetary constraints and lack of prosecutorial resources. Today, approximately twenty cold cases remain open and unresolved. While one re-opened case has resulted in a successful prosecution, the...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...at the Woodruff library said that the exhibit, "Mobilizing the Battle of Atlanta," chronicles how the tour application was created and the research that went into it. Bruchko, Croxall, Pollock,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...Salafia's words: "However clear it appeared on a map, the Ohio River border blurred as white and black Americans crossed it" (71). Salafia demonstrates that even the act that ultimately...