How Ebony magazine engaged and reacted to the Black Power movement in the 1960s and ...
Sid Ahmed ZIANE is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He studies African American history and his area of interest…
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The Atlanta Daily World, Old Sermons, and a Reporter’s Expense Report
Josina Guess is a writer and editor with more than 20 years experience in non-profit, faith-based, arts and cross-cultural communication…
Black Internationalism and a Wide View of Leon Sullivan’s Work
Mattie C. Webb is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where…
Faith in the World Community: Sue Bailey Thurman and Black Women’s World Reco ...
Kayleigh Whitman is a fifth year PhD student at Vanderbilt University. She studies American Religious History with a special focus…
Increasing Access to the Veterans of Hope Collection
New Rose Library Intern Hannah Stubblefield is a graduate student at the University of Illinois pursuing a degree in…
In Memoriam: Paul Carter Harrison
In Memoriam: Paul Carter Harrison Theophus ‘Thee’ Smith is a Professor Emeritus in the Emory University Department of Religion. He…
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Black Women Building Their Own Archives, A Practice
Monet Lewis-Timmons is an English PhD candidate at the University of Delaware and an alumna of Emory University (℅ 2018) where she double majored in English and African American Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on the genealogical lifecycle of Black...
The Last Slave Ship: The Wanderer Logbook
In 1858, the American schooner, The Wanderer, sailed along the Eastern coast of the United States. The vessel’s log, written by an unknown sailor, contains simple and brief entries that record the weather, speed, and course of the yacht. There are...
Tom Dent and the Literature of Black Suppression
Justin Haynes is an associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon College. He was awarded a Billops-Hatch fellowship in support of his research on carnivals in the Americas. He is the 2021-2023 Nicholas Jenkins Barnett Fellow in fiction at Emory University....
Uncovering Enslavement on the Main Emory Campus: Two Receipts from the Civil War Er ...
Mark Auslander is a historical anthropologist and former faculty member at Emory College and Oxford College. Let us consider two receipts issued during the Civil War in the town of Decatur, Georgia. Both cast light on the structures and experiences...
Geoffrey Holder’s Scripts are now available for research
Abbey Hafer is a PhD Candidate in the Art History department at Emory University specializing in early modern Italian art and architecture. She is a Graduate Processing Assistant for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Rose Library....
Rose Library’s collections tie the past and present together: Rabbi Jacob Rothsch ...
Today Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock will be sworn into office. Ossoff will take the oath of office using Rabbi Jacob Rothschild’s Chumash. Rothschild served as the rabbi for Atlanta’s Reform congregation, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, usually referred to as...