In the 21st century, Atlanta, Georgia has become a major new immigrant destination. This study focuses on the migration of Afro-Caribbeans to Atlanta and uses data collected from in-depth interviews, ethnography, and the US Census to understand: 1) the factors that have contribu…
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An existential and theological crisis immediately followed the American Civil War causing many southerners to lose their faith in institutions, including organized religion. As white working-class and middle-class southerners in the Georgia piedmont recovered from the war, burge…
Numerous scholars and historians have illuminated the importance of baseball within American society from the end of Reconstruction to the Great Depression. Yet their gaze has often been turned to the northern professional game. Very little has been written about how the game pl…
This thesis is about the changing gender roles for women after the Civil War. The subjects of this thesis focuses on a small group of wealthy white women whose wills were filled in the Fulton County Courthouse in the city of Atlanta between 1880–1920.
Originating in the late nineteenth century, the Georgia Capitol Museum consists of several exhibits inside the legislative building in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the years, control of the museum has changed hands many times, yet neither legislators nor museum professionals have ever…
This dissertation explores the transition of mass transit systems from private to public ownership that cities began exploring with more frequency in the 1950s, and then accelerated rapidly in the 1960s following the passage of the Urban Mass Transportation Act in 1964 (1964 UMT…
Though incorporating more open and green space into our urban communities is more important than ever in the United States, The Green Movement has focused on incorporating green space and walkability into heavily concentrated urban areas such as downtown Atlanta. However, there …
In 1906, Ralph Nace Cohen left the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean for the United States. After sailing across the Atlantic, Cohen made his way to Montgomery, Alabama. Cohen was the first of hundreds of Ottoman Sephardi Jews to immigrate to the southern United Stat…
The meaning of Confederate monuments and memorials, following the violent, high-profile events such as the Charleston church shooting in 2015, the Unite the Right rally in 2017, and the killing of George Floyd in 2020, has been at the center of the ongoing debate about how to pr…