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. ...