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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

📣 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...

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...

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...

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

Hannah Palmer is a writer and artist from Atlanta’s Southside who will deliver our other keynote address. A longtime friend of Atlanta Studies, Hannah’s latest book “The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim” was published this past fall by LSU Press.

Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, will deliver the annual Cliff Kuhn Memorial Lecture. Dr. Ogbar is a Morehouse alum and author of the recent book "America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy”.

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!

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...