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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

EVENT TOMORROW: Georgia History Under Threat: A Panel Discussion on Proposed Revisions to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act Tuesday, the 22nd of September, 6 – 7 pm Room 223, 25 Park Place (2nd Floor), GSU Downtown Campus More information available on the below flyer!

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thanks to GSU historian Marni Davis’ new article and map, you can now take a step back in time to 1896 to explore the state of Atlanta's immigrant population long before Atlanta developed its reputation as a destination for newcomers. Check it out 👇 atlantastudies.org/2026/07/21/i...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In this excerpt from her recent book "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism", historian @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social excavates the history of mayor Andrew Young’s introduction of enterprise zones into the City of Atlanta. atlantastudies.org/2026/05/25/t...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We’re very excited to share our first ever “visual note” publication in Atlanta Studies, by GSU master’s student Aaron Pacheco! This note focuses on mapping the oft-overlooked impacts of toxic pollution on suburban Atlanta’s growing Latinx communities. atlantastudies.org/2026/04/27/m...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Many thanks to all who have already submitted proposals for the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium! However, in order to maximize participation in this year's symposium, we are extending the abstract and session submission deadline by TWO WEEKS to Friday, February 27th!

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📆🚨 REMINDER ⏰⚠️ Abstract submissions for the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium are due in EXACTLY ONE MONTH! Be sure to submit your proposal for a paper, poster or organized session by February 13th! More info at the CFP below 👇👇 atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

As we ring in the new year, it's time to recap all the excellent Atlanta-focused scholarship from 2025 that was published outside of our own (virtual) pages! Catch up on all that you missed throughout the year with our annual round up here: atlantastudies.org/2026/01/01/s...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We are excited to announce the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held Thursday, May 14, 2026 at Georgia State University. More information on the symposium and how to submit your abstract or session proposal is available from: atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

In his new article in Atlanta Studies, Robert Birdwell makes the case for a racially integrated people’s movement across metro Atlanta to prefigure the kind of racially integrated and equitable society we hope to build. Check it out below 👇👇 atlantastudies.org/2025/12/09/t...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

💥 💥💥New Article Alert. "The ‘Beginning of the end’ for the Atlanta Way? Not so fast." First 50 copies free (please use your library access if available). Library access: doi.org/10.1080/0266... First 50 free (if no library access): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CQ4VX...

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The city of Atlanta is well known for its corporate-led white–Black urban regime and the ‘Atlanta Way,’ an approach that neglects the city’s low-income residents. Under Mayor Andre Dickens, the city made some changes in affordable housing policy, including standing up a new social housing developer and implementing a housing trust fund. National media and think tanks have praised the Dickens Administration for these efforts. Because affordable housing is a key component of equitable urban policy and planning, do such efforts signal a ‘beginning of the end’ of the Atlanta Way? Unfortunately, I find that the answer is no. I argue that these somewhat stronger affordable housing efforts do not constitute any sort of paradigm shift. The city has yet to address the undertaxation of commercial real estate, leaving it unable to capture a sufficient share of the growth in land values for more equitable development, and it has failed to devote sufficient resources towards deeply affordable housing for the lowest-income Atlantans. Moreover, the city derailed a referendum on its Cop City project, a major investment in policing favored by corporate interests. In the end, the Atlanta Way still seems to be very much alive.

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Did you know that the Atlanta Braves' move to Cobb County in 2017 wasn't the first time the suburban county tried to lure a professional team with the promise of a new stadium? Check out @andrewbramlett.bsky.social's new article in for more of this history! atlantastudies.org/2025/10/20/c...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Check out our latest note from GSU librarian Bryan Sinclair on the recently published online exhibit “The Elevated City”, which explores the various ways Atlanta city leaders, designers and engineers have sought to raise the city about street level over time. atlantastudies.org/2025/08/19/t...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In this excerpt from his new book, Augustus Wood examines one chapter in the long-neglected history of Atlanta's Black working class, telling the story of strikes against unjust labor practices and housing conditions by working class Black women in the 1970s atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

In this excerpt from his book “America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy”, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar reframes the politics of early 1970s Atlanta around what he calls Afro-self-determinism. Give it a read 👇👇 atlantastudies.org/2025/07/24/a...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We’re delighted to share our latest article, an excerpt from Hannah Palmer’s latest book “The Pool is Closed”. As she writes in the introduction, this piece “feels like the emotional heart of my book and it isn’t even about pools.” Check it out 👇👇 atlantastudies.org/2025/07/02/f...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We look forward to having an excerpt of Augustus Wood's new book on "Class Struggle in Black Atlanta" featured on ATLS in the coming months!

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Be sure to check out Morehouse professor Keith Hollingsworth's new article in ATLS, providing new evidence about the perseverance - and growth - of Atlanta's Black business community in the wake of the city's infamous 1906 race massacre. atlantastudies.org/2025/05/27/p...

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

How would @archiveatlanta.bsky.social fix Atlanta? Looking to our past can help us better solve our current problems—especially since we've had many of the same issues since 1837. It's time for Atlanta to hire an official historian. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-victoria...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Don't forget to register for next week's 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium! We hope to see you at Morehouse on May 2nd! Program: atlantastudies.org/2025/04/08/a... Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dez Miller @dezmiller.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It means a lot to me that this piece—which I originally wrote as a preface to my dissertation—found a home in @atlstudies.bsky.social

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“Calling it Weelaunee signals the utopic visioning of the Stop Cop City movement, which refuses a forward march of history that erodes commons and public spaces and treats any resource, like the Weelaunee River, as a tool for the state or for corporations.”

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Check out our latest article by @dezmiller.bsky.social, a personal account of their experiences with the movement to Stop Cop City and learning to engage with the forests, creeks and streams around which Atlanta was built. atlantastudies.org/2025/04/22/w...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📣 We are excited to announce the program for the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2, 2025 at Morehouse College! Be sure to check out all the awesome sessions we have planned and register for the symposium at the link below! atlantastudies.org/2025/04/08/a...

Decorative Flyer for the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Great piece by Andy Walter, & this map of ticket buyers is pretty much map of affluent "favored quarter" of Atlanta metro, where local government, homeowners, & developers have worked to maintain and reinforce exclusion through "displace-and-replace" redevelopment, among other practices. #RedHotCity

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

In honor of tonight's home opener for the Atlanta Braves, revisit Andy Walter’s ATLS classic “Mapping Braves Country” to learn more about how the Braves used maps to justify their move out of Atlanta's urban core and into to the suburbs of Cobb County atlantastudies.org/2015/09/09/m...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Don't miss 2025's Night of Ideas next Saturday, March 29th at The Goat Farm! Hosted by Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, Atlanta’s edition will question how we live in cities and embrace the diversity of worlds. Registration is free, but required!

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Atlanta - Night of Ideas

Centered around the theme of “Common Ground”, the 2025 edition of Atlanta's Night of Ideas will question how we live in cities and embrace the diversity of worlds.

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Take a step back in time to the streetscapes of south downtown in the late 1920s with GSU librarian Bryan Sinclair's new piece, which highlights archival images held by the GSU Library that were stitched together to show these streets prior to their elevation atlantastudies.org/2025/02/15/b...

Archival image of a downtown Atlanta street being prepared for elevation as part of the city's 1920s viaduct system

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

With just a couple of days delay, we are so excited to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Atlanta Studies by launching our new website! 🎂🎉🥳 A huge thanks goes out to Bailey Betik of @ecds-emory.bsky.social for her work in leading the redesign and providing the journal with a new look and feel

Screenshot of the new design for the Atlanta Studies website

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We are excited to announce the two keynote speakers for this year’s Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd at Morehouse College... Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar and Hannah Palmer!

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED 🙏 Abstract submissions for the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium are now being accepted through February 14th! If you weren't already able to get your submission in, be sure not to miss the opportunity to submit by the extended deadline!

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CFP for Atlanta Studies Symposium 2025

Call for Proposals 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium From Diaries to Data: The Unfolding Stories of Atlanta May 2, 2025 Morehouse College Shirley Massey Executive Conference Center ...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Haven't kept up-to-date on all the Atlanta-based scholarship of the last year? We've got you covered. Check out our 2024 Atlanta scholarship round-up for all the books, articles, theses and dissertations about Atlanta from this year! 👇👇

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Scholarship on Atlanta: 2024 Round Up

A collection of Atlanta-based scholarship published in 2024.

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College! See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th! atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...

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