Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...“Theories of Time and Space,” as well as music and/as poetry Part 6: Trethewey discusses Atlanta as retreat and homecoming as well as Decatur and place’s possession of memory Part 7: Trethewey...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway offered a direct route from New York to New Orleans and further shifted the region's orientation away from the Carolina coast. Cotton agriculture,...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...an article on narratives of the Atlanta child murders (in PMLA), a piece on Black Hawk (in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance), essays on the intersections of Native...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
Review Untitled (Near Minter City and Glendora, Mississippi), 1970, printed 1999. Photograph and dye-transfer print by William Eggleston. From At War with the Obvious, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession #2012.286....
Besieged Terrain
...the mountains. The Blue Ridge extends from Mount Oglethorpe, thirty-five miles north of Atlanta, through North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, ending at Pennsylvania's South Mountain. West of the Blue Ridge...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...heard her read her poetry in the late 1970s in the conference rooms of an Atlanta hotel where we were among those laying the groundwork for the first Women's Studies...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
Brushes with War
...painting's original title, Near Andersonville. We now know the work relates to a foiled Yankee cavalry raid conducted in late July, 1864, as federal forces struggled to capture Atlanta. With...