Atlanta Studies – Atlanta Studies is an online publication featuring original scholarship on all aspects of Atlanta, past and present.

Atlanta Studies

New Ways of Seeing the City:

Atlanta Studies 2022 Symposium

Friday, May 6th, 2022 @@@ Knowles Conference Center, Georgia State University

Check out the schedule for the Atlanta Studies 2022 Symposium, New Ways of Seeing the City, and register now!

Articles

Power and Place-Naming: The Struggle for a New Urban Order in Midtown, 1870–1970

Jessica L. Keys·January 25, 2018

The Rise and Fall of Atlanta’s Skid Row

Charles Steffen·December 6, 2016

Lockheed-Georgia and the Struggle for Racial Integration in the Workplace

Randall L. Patton·November 5, 2019

Voices Rising: Translating Methods to Teach Atlanta

Adam Perry Newman·November 16, 2017

Blog Posts

A Mausoleum You Can Drink In: Memorialization at Manny’s

Daniel Lamb·September 12, 2017

Tracing a History of Atlanta’s Public Transit

Joseph Hurley·April 27, 2015

Introducing DOIs to Atlanta Studies

John A. Bernau·April 18, 2019

Book Review: Jim Crow Terminals

Jacob Anbinder·November 7, 2017

Events

Photo of Atlanta and John Lewis mural by Greg Keelen on Unsplash

Register Now for the Atlanta Studies Symposium on May 6th!

ATL Studies Team·January 19, 2022

CFP for Atlanta Studies Symposium 2021

ATL Studies Team·February 8, 2021

CFP for Atlanta Studies Symposium 2020

Nicole Symmonds·December 4, 2019

Red Rose Collective Presents a Community Conversation About HIV/AIDS in Atlanta

Courtney Chartier·September 27, 2019

Reviews

Book Review: Play It Again, Sam: The Notable Life of Sam Massell, Atlanta’s First Minority Mayor

Frederick Allen·October 26, 2017

Book Review: The First American School of Sociology

Kali-Ahset Amen·May 30, 2017

Book Review: The Past and Future City

Richard Laub·December 19, 2017

Seeing the Forest As Well As the Trees: A Review of Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests

Kathryn Kolb·August 20, 2019

Interviews

Environmental Permanence in New South Atlanta: An Interview with William D. Bryan

Adam Perry Newman·August 28, 2018

Arts and Activism in Atlanta Today: Chris Appleton

Adam P. Newman and Clint Fluker·October 27, 2016

Re/Covering Blandtown: An Interview with Gregor Turk

Nicole Symmonds·November 14, 2019

Restoring the Archives Building: An Interview with Adam Forrester

Andrew Wasserman·October 2, 2018

Teaching

Introducing Teaching Atlanta

Marni Davis·November 17, 2016

Teaching Atlanta Digitally

ATL Studies Team·January 19, 2017

Re-examining the West End with ATLMaps

Tene Harris Davis·October 5, 2017

Don’t Forget about the People Who Are Already Here: Teaching Urban Sociology through Oral Histories in Grove Park

Allen Hyde·March 26, 2019

Trending now

Photo of Atlanta and John Lewis mural by Greg Keelen on Unsplash

Register Now for the Atlanta Studies Symposium on May 6th!

Atlanta’s Parking Problem Revisited

Black Women at the Fore: Perry Homes and the Transformation of Tenant Activism in 1960s Atlanta

From Food Deserts to Supermarket Redlining: Making sense of food access in Atlanta