Exploring Manuel’s Tavern in Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality is all the rage these days. It’s easy to scoff at all the hype, but until you try the new technology, you can’t fully comprehend the experience....
22 August, 2016
Author: Sarah Van Horn Melton
Atlanta Guidebooks: A New ATLMaps Layer
The Phoenix serves as Atlanta’s symbol because of the city’s rebirth after the Civil War out of the ashes of itself. But the Phoenix is also a suitable symbol for Atlanta because the city has repeatedly recreated itself, knocking down the old in search of...
04 August, 2016
Summer 2016 Meetup
The Summer 2016 Atlanta Studies Meetup will be held on June 28 at the Elevator Factory....
22 June, 2016
The Phoenix Project
Part of the long history of Atlanta rests quietly in 469 banker's boxes stored by the Department of Anthropology in Sparks Hall at Georgia State University. Comprising more than 100,000 artifacts recovered during construction of the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail lines in...
22 June, 2016
Upcoming History Symposium on African Americans and Jews in Atlanta
On Saturday, March 5, the DeKalb History Center will hold a symposium titled “Roots of Friendship: African Americans and Jews in Atlanta, 1900-1950."...
03 March, 2016
Symposium on Metropolitan Inequality
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....
08 February, 2016
In Memoriam: Cliff Kuhn (1952–2015)
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. ...
04 December, 2015
Stadiumville: Deep Mapping Turner Field
Stadiumville: Deep Mapping Turner Field...
03 November, 2015