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...
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. ...
Videos of a roundtable discussion about the diverse Afro-diasporic geographies of the Atlanta metropolitan region, moderated by Kali-Ahset Amen and including commentary from Asia Leeds, Mark Bilal King, Regine O. Jackson, Justin Hosbey, and Aretina Hamilton....
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....
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. ...
Scott Markley examines suburban redevelopment projects in Atlanta and their role in changing neighborhood racial composition. ...
Andrew Wasserman interviews Adam Forrester about Archive – his short film on the demolition of the Georgia Archives and Records Building in 2017....
Watch Ellen Dunham-Jones’ keynote lecture from the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium about the prospects and challenges of retrofitting suburban spaces in metro Atlanta....
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....
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. ...
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....
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....
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....
Ruth Yow and Sarah O'Brien discuss their pedagogical approaches to teaching about Atlanta and the ways we come to know a city....
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. ...
Adam Goldstein examines the redevelopment of East Lake Meadows in the 1990s and the more complicated history behind the boosterish myths about it. ...
Videos of a conversation between Andrea Young and Maurice J. Hobson about the history of Atlanta as a “Black Mecca” from the 1960s through the 1996 Olympic Games. ...
Elisa Lanari examines the conflicting interpretations of suburban redevelopment in downtown Sandy Springs....
Charles Steffen examines the institutional infrastructure of Atlanta’s former Skid Row in the South Downtown Business District and its eventual dismantling....
Julia Brock, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, and Kirstie Tepper discuss the emergence of a new Atlanta art scene in the late 1970s and the central role that women played in it. ...
Elora Raymond and Jesse Zaro Moore trace the development and impact of Single Family Rental Securitization in Atlanta following the 2008 Recession....
Joseph Hurley examines the "war" on dense neighborhoods with mixed residential and commercial land uses in mid-century Atlanta....
Andy Walter analyzes the politics of mapping and baseball in relation to the Braves' move to Cobb County. ...
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....
LeeAnn Lands examines the role that Emmaus House played in anti-poverty activism in late 1960s and early 1970s Atlanta. ...
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....
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...