Joseph Hurley examines the "war" on dense neighborhoods with mixed residential and commercial land uses in mid-century Atlanta. Read More
Velma Maia Thomas examines the Gold Dust Twins advertisement that was unearthed on Auburn Avenue after the 2008 tornado and the questions it raises around race and history. Read More
Jessica Keys unpacks the century-long history of changing place-names for the area we now today as Midtown and explores what those changing names might tell us about the area's history. Read More
Katie Marages Schank explores the mid-century Atlanta textbook Building Atlanta’s Future and the lessons we might learn from its erasure of African Americans from its representation of the city and its public housing. Read More
Scott Markley examines suburban redevelopment projects in Atlanta and their role in changing neighborhood racial composition. Read More
Charles Steffen examines the institutional infrastructure of Atlanta’s former Skid Row in the South Downtown Business District and its eventual dismantling. Read More
Ruth Yow and Sarah O'Brien discuss their pedagogical approaches to teaching about Atlanta and the ways we come to know a city. Read More
Preston Hogue describes how white churches in 1960s–1980s Atlanta drew on racist ideologies and religious values in responding to racial transitions in their neighborhoods. Read More
Andy Walter analyzes the politics of mapping and baseball in relation to the Braves' move to Cobb County. Read More
LeeAnn Lands examines the role that Emmaus House played in anti-poverty activism in late 1960s and early 1970s Atlanta. Read More
In this excerpt from his recent UGA press monograph The Grapevine of the Black South, Thomas Aiello recounts the origins of the Atlanta Daily World and the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. Read More
Adam Goldstein examines the redevelopment of East Lake Meadows in the 1990s and the more complicated history behind the boosterish myths about it. Read More
