Barbara Harris Combs and Katherine Hankins interview Aldon Morris about W. E. B. Du Bois’ twenty-three year career at Atlanta University in the early twentieth century. 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
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
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
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
Watch Ellen Dunham-Jones’ keynote lecture from the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium about the prospects and challenges of retrofitting suburban spaces in metro 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
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
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
Andrew Wasserman interviews Adam Forrester about Archive – his short film on the demolition of the Georgia Archives and Records Building in 2017. Read More
Irene Holliman Way examines the role John Portman played in the re-development of downtown Atlanta during the 1960s and 1970s and the disparate impacts of his "private urban renewal" efforts. Read More
