Category: Southern History

Self-Help for Agribusiness: Farm Debt, the Rural US Landscape, and the Federal Credit System, 1898–1987

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Nicole Adrian is currently a history doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on how federal U.S. agricultural credit programs and farm debt shaped inequality, the formation of agribusiness, and environmental degradation during the twentieth century. Prior to Penn, Nicole studied history, environmental studies, conservation biology, and public policy at the University Read More …

Archives preserve Atlanta through Rebecca Ranson’s plays, writings

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale1 Comment

Oli Turner received her bachelor’s degree in English & Creative Writing from Emory University in May 2025. She was awarded Highest Honors for her undergraduate honors thesis ‘I Begin Again’: Witnessing Rebecca Ranson’s Atlanta, which relied primarily on the Rose Library’s Rebecca Ranson Papers. She currently works as a podcast intern at WABE 90.1 FM. Read More …

Tracing Battles over Buildings in the Civil War South

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Bethany Bell is a PhD Student in the history department at the University of Virginia. She is also the 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s Dana White Graduate Fellowships for Research in Atlanta History, which supports research into the the development, history, culture, social movements, and politics of Atlanta. In 1864, during the fourth year of Read More …

From “aliyah” to “zaydie”: Insights into the making of early Jewish computer games

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Josh Renaud is a journalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He publishes computer history research on his website, Break Into Chat. He is interested in recovering lost or obscure software, and telling the stories of the people who made and used it. He was a 2024 recipient of the Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Read More …

Ex-Confederate Descendants in Brazil and their Lost Cause Ethos

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Chase H. McCarter is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico. He is currently a Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow in the Humanities. Chase’s research interests include the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, the nineteenth-century U.S. South, nineteenth-century U.S.-Latin American relations, war and society, and the Read More …

Ralph McGill and Lillian Smith: Two Intellectuals in the Service of President Lyndon B. Johnson

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Dominic D’Amour is a doctoral candidate in Social and Presidential History at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He is a 2024 Visiting Research Fellow for Political & Social Movements. I had a very wonderful and productive experience diving into the archives of the Rose Library at Emory University. This magnificent library houses the Read More …

Walking Through History: Rose Research in Action

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Joel Silverman is a photographer, commercial filmmaker, and educator. He is currently an adjunct professor at Emory University, where he teaches photography and filmmaking with a focus on digital futurism, photographic art history, printmaking, and historic darkroom processes. He was a 2023 recipient of the Rose Library’s Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Collections Research Read More …

Arts & Activism in the Archives – Rose Library & Science Gallery Atlanta

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library.   Rose Library is honored to play a small role in Science Gallery Atlanta’s newest exhibition, “JUSTICE”, where we will offer finding aids to some of our related collections. In their words, “This exhibition season invites researchers, artists, and audiences to contemplate and reimagine some of the Read More …

Uncovering Enslavement on the Main Emory Campus: Two Receipts from the Civil War Era

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

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 of enslavement on the lands that would become, many decades later, parts of the main Read More …

The Rose Library Acquires the Papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ Rights Activist Winston Johnson

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe1 Comment

The Rose Library has a trove of collections that document activism in Atlanta, Georgia, the South, and the nation. Here is some information about a new collection. The Rose Library has acquired the papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ and human rights activist Winston Johnson. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, and photographs that document Johnson’s work Read More …

Rose Library’s collections tie the past and present together: Rabbi Jacob Rothschild & Jon Ossoff

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

  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 the Temple. The Rothschild papers detail the Rabbi’s friendship with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Read More …

Getting to Know Tierra Thomas, Visiting Archivist for Southern Jewish Collections

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

Rose Library is staffed by an amazing group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about archives. The “Getting to Know…” blog post series asks 5 questions so our staff can introduce themselves in their own words.   What do you do at Rose Library? I am the Visiting Archivist for Southern Jewish Collections. In Read More …