Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...crime-ridden underworld of Atlanta in 1948. The city is on the cusp of a civil rights movement that will transform it politically, socially, and spatially. By following the travails of...
And the Prize Goes to...
...and our focus on method gave me a very helpful set of tools to think about how to ask (and answer) questions about the world." I was fascinated to see...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Savannah, or New York, or Providence, or the Ohio River, or better still, on the banks of the Mississippi. —Toni Morrison1Toni Morrison, "A Bench by the Road," World Journal of...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...gates and high modern façades add a sense of permanence that belies the agency's earliest beginnings in rural South Georgia. Assimilating diverse research agendas, the CDC has worked to eradicate...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...Travelers Car Club as the parade passed our studio. We were struck by the vibrancy of the club and the parade's manifestation of the parallel black and white worlds within...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...did reformers fear the consequences of Demon Rum? "The evolution from temperance to prohibition," writes Willis, "reflected a desire to bring order to a society that reformers regarded as disturbingly...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...“Many Souths,” invites a broad range of panels on southern working-class history, while at the same time it asks participants to examine how we have conceptualized the region: as rural...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...used to think backwater meant remote or backward, out of date, a place of stagnant poverty. But found the term in history means across the mountain watershed where rivers run...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...how our platform will enable a scholar to "layer" maps from different moments in Faulkner's world and track changes in both Faulkner's conceptualization of the landscape and important narrative progressions....
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Sjoquist (New York: Russell Sage, 2000), 2. The mismatch between the alarming poverty rates and the perceptions of Atlanta as a thriving city for African Americans reflects what social scientists...