JoyEllen Freeman announces the first meeting of the Atlanta Black Archives Alliance on February 28, which will illustrate the scope of African American archives in Atlanta and feature discussion of how practitioners are using these materials today Read More
Coleman Allums reviews a new book that examines how monuments and place names are socially constructed and contested Read More
Riley Cox details how the scrapbooks of ordinary Atlantans preserve distinctive unwritten histories Read More
Jean-Paul Addie reviews a new book exploring how urban universities developed into cultural and economic centers that created complex and at times fraught relationships with their surrounding cities Read More
With the "Rap Map," Adnan Rasool uses ATLMaps to visualize how three Atlanta rappers, OutKast, Ludacris, and Childish Gambino, engage similar Atlanta geographies through their lyrics. Read More
Atlanta Studies is interested in all sources for learning about our great city. Check out our crowdsourced collection of Atlanta-based scholarship published elsewhere in 2017. Read More
Sameera Fazili reviews a new book that examines the economic and historical constraints faced by African American banks in addressing America's enduring racial wealth gap Read More
Felix Harcourt explores Atlanta's oft-ignored history as the "Imperial City" of the Klan in the 1920s and the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the city's leadership and culture during that period Read More
Elora Raymond describes her research on Atlanta’s exceptionally high eviction rates and the sociopolitical and economic forces behind them Read More
April Lundy presents the first installment of her documentary exploring the origins of WCLK, Atlanta’s premiere public jazz radio station Read More
Richard Laub reviews a new book arguing that historic preservation tools are essential for promoting economic and urban revitalization and applies its lessons to Atlanta Read More
Danielle Wiggins reviews a book about the role that African Americans politicians in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere played in the intensification of the criminal justice system over the past half-century Read More
