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Author : Elise Reid Boylston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
ISBN : UVA:X001229403
Author : Sharon Foster Jones
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781614234685
Named for the famous Spanish explorer who was said to have discovered the Fountain of Youth, Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Avenue began as a simple country road that conveyed visitors to the healing springs that once bubbled along it. Now, few motorists realize that the avenue, one of Atlanta’s major commuter thoroughfares, was a prestigious residential street in Victorian Atlanta, home to mayors and millionaires. An economic turn in the twentieth century transformed the avenue into a crime-ridden commercial corridor, but in recent years, Atlantans have rediscovered the street’s venerable architecture and storied history. Join local historian Sharon Foster Jones on a vivid tour of the avenue—from picnics by the springs in hoopskirts and Atlanta Crackers baseball to the Fox Theatre and the days when Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable and Al Capone lodged in the esteemed hotels lining this magnificent avenue.
Author : Cathy J. Kaemmerlen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625844200
Approximately seventy thousand souls lay in rest at historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the silent witnesses of what has gone on before. Their stones carry their stories and the history of Atlanta. Cathy Kaemmerlen, renowned storyteller and Georgia author, explores the tales behind many of the cemetery's notable figures, including: • Margaret Mitchell, of Gone with the Wind fame • Bobby Jones, 1930 winner of all four major golf championships • The Rich brothers, founders of Rich's Department Store • Joseph Jacobs, in whose pharmacy the first Coca-Cola was served
Author : Max A. van Balgooy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759122802
In this landmark guide, nearly two dozen essays by scholars, educators, and museum leaders suggest the next steps in the interpretation of African American history and culture from the colonial period to the twentieth century at history museums and historic sites. This diverse anthology addresses both historical research and interpretive methodologies, including investigating church and legal records, using social media, navigating sensitive or difficult topics, preserving historic places, engaging students and communities, and strengthening connections between local and national history. Case studies of exhibitions, tours, and school programs from around the country provide practical inspiration, including photographs of projects and examples of exhibit label text. Highlights include: Amanda Seymour discusses the prevalence of "false nostalgia" at the homes of the first five presidents and offers practical solutions to create a more inclusive, nuanced history. Dr. Bernard Powers reveals that African American church records are a rich but often overlooked source for developing a more complete portrayal of individuals and communities. Dr. David Young, executive director of Cliveden, uses his experience in reinterpreting this National Historic Landmark to identify four ways that people respond to a history that has been too often untold, ignored, or appropriated—and how museums and historic sites can constructively respond. Dr. Matthew Pinsker explains that historic sites may be missing a huge opportunity in telling the story of freedom and emancipation by focusing on the underground railroad rather than its much bigger "upper-ground" counterpart. Martha Katz-Hyman tackles the challenges of interpreting the material culture of both enslaved and free African Americans in the years before the Civil War by discussing the furnishing of period rooms. Dr. Benjamin Filene describes three "micro-public history" projects that lead to new ways of understanding the past, handling source limitations, building partnerships, and reaching audiences. Andrea Jones shares her approach for engaging students through historical simulations based on the "Fight for Your Rights" school program at the Atlanta History Center. A exhibit on African American Vietnam War veterans at the Heinz History Center not only linked local and international events, but became an award-winning model of civic engagement. A collaboration between a university and museum that began as a local history project interpreting the Scottsboro Boys Trial as a website and brochure ended up changing Alabama law. A list of national organizations and an extensive bibliography on the interpretation of African American history provide convenient gateways to additional resources.
Author : Elena Irish Zimmerman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0738500399
From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art.
Author : Gregory D. Coleman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820321125
More than one million people from all walks of life have been uplifted and entertained by Heaven Bound, the folk drama that follows, through song and verse, the struggles between Satan and a band of pilgrims on their way down the path of glory that leads to the golden gates. Staged annually and without interruption for more than seventy years at Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Heaven Bound is perhaps the longest running black theater production. Here, a lifelong member of Big Bethel with many close ties to Heaven Bound recounts its lively history and conveys the enduring power and appeal of an Atlanta tradition that is as much a part of the city as Coca-Cola or Gone with the Wind.
Author : Robert Seitz Frey,Nancy Thompson-Frey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Lynching
ISBN : 9780815411888
This is the chilling and unforgettable story of the sensational trial, unjust conviction, and lynching of Leo M. Frank for the murder of his thirteen-year-old employee Mary Phagan. In the heated atmosphere of fear and anti-Semitism surrounding the murder, a mob dragged Frank from his prison cell and executed him.
Author : Brendan Maguire,Polly F. Radosh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 1882289404
Today's criminal justice system is the product of adjustments and reappraisals of policies and practices of the past. The Past Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice highlights how criminal justice has changed and how it continues to change.
Author : Tera W. Hunter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674264632
As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta—the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south—in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers’ domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post–Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception—and at the heart—of the new south.
Author : William A. Kretzschmar,William A. Kretzschmar Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226452832
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Author : Lyde Cullen-Sizer,Jim Cullen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470759110
There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology, from Lincoln’s Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary materials present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship. Contains an extensive selection of writings and illustrations on the American Civil War Reflects society and culture as well as the politics and key battles of the Civil War Reproduces and links primary and secondary sources to encourage exploration of the material Includes editorial introductions and study questions to aid understanding
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Education, Elementary
ISBN : UCAL:B4325741
Author : George J. Lankevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001046070
A chronology of events in the history of Atlanta from 1813 to 1976 with a selection of pertinent documents.
Author : Elizabeth Candler Graham,Ralph Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029224394
An intimate look into one of the premier families of the South and the soft drink empire they built. A century ago Asa Candler took an obscure patent medicine called "Pemberton's Tonic", changed its name to "Coca-Cola", and in one move created the greatest marketing success in history. Now his great-great-granddaughter gives the inside story. Unpublished photographs.
Author : Darlene R. Roth
Publisher : Carlson Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002455177
A study of women's organizations in that city, focusing on conservative organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Colonial Dames, and the African-American Chatauqua Circle. Traces the development of women's activities from communal service orientation to advocacy of women's and children's rights. Of interest to students of urban and community history, Southern history, and women's history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
