As we continue social and physical distancing due to the impact of Covid-19 on our communities, we here at Atlanta Studies have wondered how this is impacting the people and the places of Atlanta....
A crowdsourced collection of Atlanta-based scholarship that was published elsewhere in 2019. ...
Virginie Kippelen reflects on the history and contemporary state of Arabia Mountain in this photo essay....
Clayton Trutor uncovers the connection between the brief tenure of Atlanta’s first professional hockey team and aspirations for downtown redevelopment in the 1970s....
Call for proposals for the eighth annual Atlanta Studies symposium on April 23, 2020....
An interview with contemporary visual artist Gregor Turk on his new exhibition and centering it on Blandtown....
Todd Michney introduces a vital new digital archive for local researchers and explains its unique features and value ...
Join the Red Rose Collection on October 9 at 7pm in Emory's Rose Library for a discussion about community and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Atlanta ...
An Oct 1 meetup for people who are currently planning or working on oral history projects with and among communities of color or other under-represented communities in Atlanta....
Nedra Deadwyler reviews a book that explores the intersections of race, cycling and urban planning. ...
Joycelyn Wilson reviews Gucci Mane's autobiography with an eye towards what it might tell us about the narratives behind Atlanta's famed hip hop scene...
Kathryn Kolb reviews a new book about urban forests and highlights its relevance here in Atlanta...
Taylor Shelton and Ate Poorthuis discuss their recent study of the geography of functional neighborhoods in Atlanta and how they correspond to the forty-year-old Neighborhood Planning Unit system....
Alana Barnes discusses the Robert A. Holmes collection at the Auburn Avenue Research Library....
In this excerpt from his new book Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South, Casey Cater discusses the racial conflicts on the city's streetcars that were part of the lead up to the infamous 1906 race riots. ...
Marni Davis discusses her digital storytelling project about the rich history of Georgia Avenue ...
A recap of the 2019 Symposium hosted by Georgia Tech on April 9...
Alex Karner discusses MARTA's new branding "The ATL" and its connection to Atlanta's historical racial tensions....
The editorial staff of Atlanta Studies is proud to announce the introduction of DOIs: the latest development in our mission to develop and distribute high-quality digital scholarship about and for Atlanta....
Join the conversation about the past, present, and future of Atlanta!...
Allen Hyde discusses how he used oral history interviewing in a neighborhood next to Georgia Tech to teach urban sociology...
Learn about the keynote speakers for this year's symposium on April 9 - J. Marshall Shepherd and Bartow Elmore - and check out the full program for the day's events. ...
Andrew Kingston discusses the archive of the American Music Show at Rose Library as a window into the history of Queer Atlanta....
Laura Starratt discusses how Rose Library collections shed light on Olmsted's little-known impact on Atlanta. ...
On February 28, 2019, at 5 pm, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library will host a program and panel discussion about the life and work of Asa G. Hilliard III, including a special viewing of his collection....
Check out our crowdsourced collection of Atlanta-based scholarship published elsewhere in 2018. ...
Call for proposals for seventh annual Atlanta Studies symposium on April 9, 2019...
Yanni Loukissas discusses the Atlanta Map Room project at Georgia Tech and its approach to the gap between what civic data and lived experiences can tell us about the BeltLine...
Adam P. Newman and Steve Bransford discuss their ECDS project on the African American WWI veterans buried at Oakland Cemetery...
Robert Greene II looks back at the political scholarship of Alton Hornsby, an Atlanta-native and prominent historian....
Details for attending the Atlanta-specific sessions at the upcoming ASA conference Nov. 8-11...
Paul Renfro reviews Atlanta Monster in light of the politics of true crime podcasting and the current wave of works about the Atlanta Youth Murders of 1979-1981...
Alexander Hyres reviews a new book that uncovers the previously overlooked role played by African American educators like Horace Tate in the Black freedom struggle....
Beth Stevens and Blake Davis describe how Georgia Watch is using the ATLMaps platform to visualize the geography of title lending in Georgia...
Joseph M. Thompson discusses the long history of black women's labor organizing at the downtown Scripto factory prior to the famous 1963 strike...
An interview with William D. Bryan about his new book The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South and what it reveals about Atlanta. ...
Jerry Shannon discusses food insecurity and supermarket redlining in the metro Atlanta area....
Joe Hurley reviews the new "Renewing Inequality" digital project with an eye to what it tells us about urban renewal in Atlanta...
Join us at Manuel's Tavern on Tuesday, August 7 at 7pm for our Summer Quarterly Meetup...
Gayle Schechter discusses the AUC Woodruff Library's new GLAM portal for digital resources and its current featured collection on the Atlanta University Art Annuals ...
Danielle Wiggins reviews the recent documentary about the life and achievements of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor...
Winston Grady-Willis reviews a new book about how attending to class and politics complicates the image of post-Civil Rights Atlanta as a 'Black Mecca'...
Martyn Bone reflects on the impact of Tom Wolfe's novel about Atlanta in the wake of his recent passing...
Brittany Newberry discusses the newly opened Grace Towns Hamilton papers at the AUC Woodruff Library...
A recap of the recent Atlanta Studies Symposium held at Emory's Woodruff Library on April 20...
Paul McDaniel, Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, and Anna Joo Kim discuss their new research into the integration of immigrant populations in the metro Atlanta region...
Sara Harwood reflects on teaching an Atlanta-themed composition course ...
Fifty years after the publication of its first issue learn about the radical counterculture newspaper The Great Speckled Bird from its early contributors...
Stephanie Bryan reviews a new book that peels back the sociohistorical layers of Georgia's most iconic symbol – the Georgia peach...
Camille Goldmon introduces the new Open Educational Resource (OER) about Atlanta at Southern Spaces...
The program for the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held at Emory on April 20, 2018, addresses a number of critical issues to preparing for the metro region's projected growth....
Lisa Shannon reviews a new book that examines white and black secondary education in Georgia to illustrate how race impacted women's identity in the New South...
Julia Brock reviews a new book that focuses on Marietta High School to reveal the historical underpinnings of the resegregation of public schools and our imperative to undo it...
The spring 2018 Atlanta Studies Meetup will be held on March 26 at Manuel's Tavern and will feature Common Good Atlanta and The American Music Show...
Brennan Collins reviews an edited collection of noir short stories set around metro Atlanta....
We are excited to announce that the Ellen Dunham-Jones will deliver the Cliff Kuhn Memorial Keynote Lecture at our 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium on April 20, 2018....
Fred Carroll discusses the political conservatism of the Atlanta Daily World, Atlanta's widely read black newspaper, which criticized radical black social movements, seeking to protect middle class black southerners' hard-won social gains...
Jessica Leming details newly digitized rare multi-media materials documenting African American religion from the 1880s to the 2000s in the collection of the AUC Woodruff Library...
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...
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....
Elora Raymond describes her research on Atlanta’s exceptionally high eviction rates and the sociopolitical and economic forces behind them...
Coleman Allums reviews a new book that examines how monuments and place names are socially constructed and contested...
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. ...
April Lundy presents the first installment of her documentary exploring the origins of WCLK, Atlanta’s premiere public jazz radio station...
Riley Cox details how the scrapbooks of ordinary Atlantans preserve distinctive unwritten histories...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Emma French reviews a new edited collection about smart cities and infrastructure, with an eye towards the lessons it offers Atlanta ...
Mark Pendergrast discusses the current plans for Quarry Lake and how it might be a more impactful public amenity as a site for aquatic recreational activities rather than just as something to look at...
Hannah Palmer discusses the lack of a public observation platform at Hartsfield-Jackson airport and how it reveals a larger pattern of unequal access to recreational opportunities like plane-watching in Atlanta ...
An interview with BeltLine visionary and urban planner Ryan Gravel about his new projects....
Call for proposals for sixth annual Atlanta Studies symposium on April 20, 2018...
Mariam Asad and Christopher Le Dantec discuss the process behind the creation of the Atlanta Community Engagement Playbook....
Jacob Anbinder reviews a book about the desegregation of American airports with an eye towards what it can teach us about the desegregation of Atlanta's own airport....
Hear Tomiko Brown-Nagin speak about her award winning book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, at the AUC Library...
Frederick Allen reviews a new biography of former mayor Sam Massell...
Rebecca Serna reviews a book that gives national and international context for the booming local cycling scene....
Robert Greene II reviews Benjamin Lisle's recent book on the history of the modern stadium in the context of Atlanta's own history of post-war stadium development...
Shannon Byrne discusses the pervasiveness of Stone Mountain granite in the Atlanta metro area and its implications as captured via her new ATLMaps layer...
Chris Sawula explores the reverberations of the Battle of Atlanta in our contemporary cityscape via ATLMaps...
Ness Creighton explores the story of Atlanta artist Dean Chapman and his artwork hanging on the walls in Manuel’s Tavern...
Tene Harris Davis uses ATLMaps to re-examine the West End's culturally significant neighborhood landmarks archived by its community members...
Derrick White explores how the Institute of the Black World helped make Atlanta an intellectual black mecca in the 1970s....
Ashley McNeil guides us through downtown Atlanta to highlight its historic geology...
Ansley Quiros reflects on the legendary Freaknik street parties of the 1990s and the issues of race and governance they became entangled with...
Kathryn McClymond discusses her pedagogical use of ATL Maps to record and explore the religious diversity of the Atlanta metro area...
Jennifer Clark explores Atlanta's emergence as a "smart city" and the implications of that turn...
Hannah Palmer discussed her use of the ATL Maps platform to sift out stories of Atlanta and particularly the area down by the airport...
Daniel Lamb explores the memorials to past patrons that litter the bar and walls of Manuel's Tavern. ...
Jason Rhodes explores the new ATL Maps layer based on the 1938 HOLC "redlining" map of Atlanta ...
Brennan Collins highlights new features of the ATL Maps platform and introduces a series of posts on new data layers ...
Some Atlanta-focused sessions to check out at the Decatur Book Festival ...
Julia Brock discusses what oral histories add to the Unpacking Manuel's Tavern project....
Adam P. Newman discusses the launch of the Unpacking Manuel's Tavern project...
Courtney Chartier introduces the Atlanta Black Archives Alliance and explains its mission and current members. ...
Ethan Tussey explores Atlanta's emerging status as a media capital and discusses the "Atlanta Media Project" research collective....
Steve Goodson explores Atlanta's pivotal role in the early history of recording country music ...
Robin Morris explores the history of women in Georgia's GOP prior to Karen Handel's recent special election victory....
JoyEllen Freeman discusses the records of the Cobb County NAACP Branch at the Kennesaw State University archives ...
Ed Hatfield reviews Mark Pendergrast's new book about the Beltline and the future of Atlanta...
Danielle Wiggins reviews Joshua Farrington's recent book on Black Republicans in the context of Atlanta's political history. ...
Anna Joo Kim discusses the research coming out of Georgia Immigration Research Network. ...
J Marshall Shepherd explains the Urban Rainfall Effect and explores its impact in Atlanta ...
Steven Ericson explores how GSU's effect on downtown real estate values might predict its impact on the Turner Field area...
The Atlanta History Center presents Hannah Palmer in conversation with Ryan Gravel on July 20 at 7:00 pm....
Jack Le and Brennan Collins discuss a new feature in the 3D build for GSU and Emory's Atlanta Explorer project. ...
Ann Carpenter of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta discusses recent findings on contract for deed financing in Southeastern cities, including Atlanta. ...
Candler Vinson discusses the recent Jane's Walk in Atlanta. ...
Explore the history of Midtown with the Atlanta History Center on June 29...
Jerry Shannon discusses his new research on food insecurity in metro Atlanta and the growing food insecurity in suburban Atlanta. ...
Generation Green of the Georgia Conservancy presents a discussion of transit corridor revitalization on Tuesday, June 13...
The next Atlanta Regional Housing Forum will be held on June 7 and will be on the topic of Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Preservation Challenge...
Erik Love discusses his experience with and approach to teaching about the historical echoes in contemporary local instances of Islamophobia. ...
Kali-Ahset Amen reviews Earl Wright II's recent book about W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory...
The Summer 2017 Atlanta Studies Meetup will be held on May 30 at Manuel's Tavern...
The editorial staff explains our recent site redesign....
Coleman Allums responds to the recent article in The Atlantic about race and the cityhood movement in metro Atlanta....
Dan Immergluck reviews Richard Florida's much buzzed about new book "The New Urban Crisis"...
Philip Cherry examines the effects of the recent I-85 bridge collapse and the long history of planning decisions that led to Atlanta's reliance on a limited number of transportation routes. ...
In the wake of his passing, Steve Bransford explores on a side of Bruce Hampton not often discussed - his deep love of Atlanta. ...
Taking place on Wednesday, May 10 at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, The Measuring the Dream Symposium will look critically at available data and explore issues of equity in the areas of Education, Health, and Criminal Justice....
Anjulet Tucker discusses her recent documentary about the spread of Chicago Steppin in Atlanta and the issues involved with representing this subculture. ...
Video of Ashley Coleman Taylor's April 10 presentation on black queer feminist insights on Atlanta...
An Interview with Marian Liou about the past, present and future of the Buford Highway Corridor and her organization We Love BuHi...
Check out the program for the 2017 Atlanta Studies Symposium and register to join us on Wednesday, April 26. ...
Terry Easton explores the 1990 occupation of the Imperial Hotel and its impact on the development of affordable housing in Atlanta ...
An Interview with Hannah Palmer about her new book about the impact of the airport's expansion on Atlanta's southside communities ...
Katie O'Connell explains how the Westside Community Alliance's Data Dashboard equips citizens with the data to combat inequality. ...
Video of Erik Love's March 20 presentation on race and public transit advocacy, with a focus on Atlanta....
Adam P. Newman examines the role of The Atlanta Project in the redevelopment of East Lake Meadows and Atlanta in the 1990s....
Katie Schank explores how the East Lake Meadows housing project first got the moniker "Little Vietnam" in the 1970s....
On Tuesday, March 28, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, in collaboration with the Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and The Bill & Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, presents a discussion of the digital research platforms, projects and publications about Atlanta at Emory. ...
Justin Shaw examines the racially segregated celebrations of Shakespeare that took place in Atlanta for his last centenary in 1916. ...
An Interview with Maurice J. Hobson about his book The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta....
Robert Greene II reviews a new book about Andrew Young's impact on Atlanta....
Kali-Ahset Amen's opening remarks from the "Still the Black Mecca?" Symposium. ...
Highlighting an oral history with Eva Galambos, the "founding mother" of Sandy Springs, to complement Elisa Lanari's recent article on the contemporary issues around Sandy Springs's development...
Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscipt, Archives, and Rare Book Library will host an evening of dance and conversation about the spread of Chicago Steppin to the Gate City on Thursday, February 23...
Michael Camp discusses the papers of native Atlantan civil rights attorney Howard Moore Jr. at Emory's Rose Library...
Hannah Palmer explores the intersection of southern rot and urban decay in televisual representations of Atlanta's southside...
Join us for our Winter 2017 meetup on Monday, January 6 at Manuel's Tavern and learn about the progress of Unpacking Manny's ...
On Friday, February 3, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship in partnership with the Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and Teaching Atlanta will host “Teaching Atlanta Digitally,” a half-day symposium on local digital pedagogies. ...
Skye Borden discusses the proposed park and reservoir at Bellwood Quarry in the context of the historical reception of water infrastructure in Atlanta...
An Interview with Dr. Kali-Ahset Amen reflecting on the "Still the Black Mecca?" symposium she co-organized this past fall. ...
Call for Papers for the fifth annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, which will be held on April 26, 2017 at the Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center....
Adam P. Newman re-examines the tradition of Rich's Great Tree in South Downtown in light of the skid row that surrounded the spectacle of grace each holiday season in the 1960s through the 1980s....
Deirdre Oakley discusses the persistent issues of homelessness in Atlanta since the 1980s and the recent attempts to close the Peachtree-Pine shelter. ...
Marni Davis on the closure of the Open Door Community and the role it has played homeless Atlantans. ...
Darin Givens of ThreadATL reflects on the conflicting perceptions of contemporary South Downtown’s potential....
Introducing a series of guest blog posts about homelessness and South Downtown today to complement Charles Steffen's article "The Rise and Fall of Atlanta's Skid Row"...
Atlanta Studies mourns the passing of Dana F. White, a member of our advisory board and a leading teacher, scholar and public intellectual of the Atlanta metropolitan region....
Mike Pardee discusses The Lovett School's innovative "Lab Atlanta" program...
Marni Davis introduces the newest element of the Atlanta Studies Network, our pedagogically-oriented partner site Teaching Atlanta...
Maurice J. Hobson discusses the new hit FX show Atlanta and the largely unseen side of Black Atlanta that it reveals....
An interview with Morgan Carlisle on arts and activism in contemporary Atlanta...
An interview with Chris Appleton on arts and activism in contemporary Atlanta. ...
The Atlanta Studies Network is a co-sponsor of the forthcoming symposium “Still the ‘Black Mecca’? Race, Social Inequality, & Urban Displacement in 21st-Century Atlanta” on Wednesday, November 9 from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Georgia State University Law School Ballroom. ...
An interview with Kevin Sipp on arts and activism in contemporary Atlanta...
An interview with Susannah Darrow on arts and activism in contemporary Atlanta. ...
Introducing a series of interviews about arts and activism in contemporary Atlanta to complement Brock, Reeves, and Tepper's article "Arts and Activism in 1970s Atlanta."...
Brennan Collins discusses how GSU students captured the renovation of Manuel's Tavern via VR video....
Clare Van Holm and Jay Shelat discuss their new ATL Maps layer built from 1898 and 1907 guidebooks to Atlanta. ...
The Summer 2016 Atlanta Studies Meetup will be held on June 28 at the Elevator Factory....
Robin Wharton discusses her pedagogical use of a collection ofartifacts recovered during MARTA construction in the 1970s....
A reflection on the influence of Jane Jacobs on our publication and how we think about Atlanta on the centennial of her birth....
The Georgia Archives invites you to attend our annual history symposium, “Roads, Rails, and Rivers: The History of Transportation in Georgia,” on Saturday, April 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Archives....
On Wednesday, April 13, GSU and Clark Atlanta will host "Bringing W.E.B. Du Bois Back to 21st Century Atlanta," a one day symposium featuring a keynote by Dr. Aldon Morris....
On Saturday, March 5, the DeKalb History Center will hold a symposium titled “Roots of Friendship: African Americans and Jews in Atlanta, 1900-1950."...
Georgia Tech's School of History and Sociology will be hosting a symposium on metropolitan inequality on Friday, April 22nd from 10.00 AM–6.00 PM....
Join us for our Winter 2015 Meetup...
Atlanta Studies lost a friend and mentor with the passing of Cliff Kuhn, an associate professor of history at Georgia State University and executive director of the Oral History Association. ...
Unpacking Manuel's Tavern...
Brennan Collins introduces a new ATL Maps layer about those neighborhoods displaced by the development of the Turner Field...
Joe Hurley discusses the history of parking and car-focused urban design in Atlanta...
Join us for our summer 2015 meetup on Thursday, August 13 at Manuel's Tavern...
Maurice Hobson explores the history of Confederate symbols in Atlanta in the late twentieth century...
Hannah Palmer asks: Who loves Hartsfield-Jackson airport? ...
Joe Hurley discusses Georgia State University's "Tracing a History of Atlanta's Public Transit" project...
Join us at Georgia Tech on May 6 for the Third Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium...
Join us at Manuel's Tavern on April 6 for our spring meetup ...
Scott Libson explores how an innovative geocoder developed at Emory enables a deeper exploration of the segregated landscape of cinemas in Atlanta....
Introducing Atlanta Studies, an open access digital publication offering thoughtful analyses of the metro region’s past and present for a public audience....