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
Max Blau and Todd Michney recount the 1960 bombing of a Black elementary school on English Avenue and explores how it refutes challenge the myth of Atlanta as an oasis from racist violence 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
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
Andrew Wasserman interviews Adam Forrester about Archive – his short film on the demolition of the Georgia Archives and Records Building in 2017. 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
Clif Stratton examines how race shaped Atlanta’s historical efforts to memorialize the accomplishments of the home run king, Henry Aaron. Read More
Joseph Hurley examines the "war" on dense neighborhoods with mixed residential and commercial land uses in mid-century Atlanta. 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
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
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
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