Elora Raymond and Jesse Zaro Moore trace the development and impact of Single Family Rental Securitization in Atlanta following the 2008 Recession. 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
Andy Walter analyzes the politics of mapping and baseball in relation to the Braves' move to Cobb County. Read More
Christopher Huff recounts the 1969 police riot in Piedmont Park and explains what it reveals about the politics of late 1960s Atlanta, and especially around the then booming “Hip” community in the city. Read More
Scott Markley examines suburban redevelopment projects in Atlanta and their role in changing neighborhood racial composition. Read More
Boyd Lewis recounts the storied history of the house in which Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With The Wind, including his own experience living there in the late 1970s Read More
Videos of presentations by Maurice Hobson, Joycelyn Wilson, and R. Candy Tate’s on key issues in the Black cultural politics of Atlanta from the 1970s to today. 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
“Southern hip-hop deromanticizes the mountaintop as prime real estate” of achievement by “the breaking of limitations about the South as... Read More
In this excerpt from his University of Georgia Press monograph, Randall L. Patton explores the experiences of African American workers at Lockheed-Georgia in the 1950s and how their frustrations eventually resulted in the creation of a new federal policy for workplace integration in the 1960s. Read More
Clarence Stone revisits Regime Politics, his classic analysis of Atlanta's governance, in light of the many changes in Atlanta since its publication in 1989. Read More
Andrew Wasserman interviews Adam Forrester about Archive – his short film on the demolition of the Georgia Archives and Records Building in 2017. Read More