Monthly Archives: September 2018

Closer Look: The History and Future of the Atlanta BeltLine; Advice for Seniors Negotiating BeltLine Properties; And More

Posted on September 26, 2018 by abe1968

The Atlanta Beltline – A ‘Closer Look’ This is a great story from the Atlanta NPR News Magazine ‘Closer Look’ regarding the Atlanta Beltline project.  It speaks to its history and contains interviews with Ryan Gravel, the visionary behind the … Continue reading →

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Public History and Pop Culture

Posted on September 25, 2018 by allywright87

Hello, all – I was finishing going through the readings for tonight’s class, and I found myself getting distracted by thoughts of how some of these concepts apply to some different aspects of popular culture. Again—we briefly mentioned Hamilton last … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Heather L. Welch

I wanted to share this NPR story I listened to last week. As we’ve been discussing the current controversy surrounding confederate monuments and Brundage mentioned the issue of schools named for Confederate leaders, I found this story very interesting. What … Continue reading →

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A (Hopefully not THE) Southern Past

Posted on September 19, 2018 by anniesaysii

I want to thank y’all for the discussion tonight on The Southern Past. I was absorbing what you were all saying about history as a discipline, which I feel is still sort of new to me as someone with an interdisciplinary … Continue reading →

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Vox Confederate Memorials

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Heather L. Welch

This video popped up in my suggested video feed on YouTube, proving the internet really does know all. I found it interesting and timely for our reading this week.

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Authenticity According to Trouillot and Others

Posted on September 17, 2018 by anniesaysii

I was particularly struck by Trouillot’s discussion in Silencing the Past about what makes history authentic. He writes that collective guilt, or white guilt we might call it, over a “the slave past” or a “colonial past” is inauthentic because it “protects … Continue reading →

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Social Explorer & Westview

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Steven Garcia

By Steven R. Garcia As we continue to discuss lines of inquiry regarding Westview and the Beltline, I mentioned a website that can help facilitate demographic research on the topic. Social Explorer compiles U.S. Census data from as far back … Continue reading →

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The Near Impossible Tasman of Creating a 9/11 Museum

Posted on September 11, 2018 by amycoller

This article from Wired is roughly 4 years old now, but given today’s date I found myself wondering what the museum was like. Due to financial constraints it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to visit New York within the foreseeable … Continue reading →

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Tour of Westview Cemetery

Posted on September 8, 2018 by tcraftonkarnes1

As our final project is interpreting the Westview neighborhood for the Beltline, I wanted to let you all know about this upcoming event from the Breman Museum. Next Sunday, September 16, the Breman and historian Jeff Clemmons (author of Atlanta’s … Continue reading →

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Speaking of the BeltLine…

Posted on September 4, 2018 by clairenix

So, as I was perusing Facebook just now, a “recommended event” popped up, and I wonder if it popped up due to me having read the Westview articles (since we’ve all most likely experienced the phenomenon of Facebook advertising for … Continue reading →

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