"African American Young Men in Jails and Wars: Walter Dean Myers’s 'Monster,' 'Fallen Angels,' and 'Sunrise over Fallujah'" Dr. Pearl McHaney presents part two of the "Connecting Lines: Building Empathy […]
Dr. Nick Norwood, director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, will discuss the complicated relationship between Carson McCullers and the people of her hometown, Columbus, Georgia. This […]
Titles@Twilight: A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt lecture Heritage Sandy Springs hosts Kaye Minchew, author of A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Minchew will discuss Franklin Roosevelt's […]
"Carson's Columbus" lecture Historian and author Dr. Virginia Causey discusses the childhood world of writer Carson McCullers in a look at Columbus, Georgia, in the 1920s-40s. This lecture is supported […]
"Searching for Beulah Buchanan: The 20-Year Search for What Happened to a Little Girl on Thanksgiving Day, 1917," lunch and learn lecture Dan Roper, the publisher and editor of Georgia […]
"Carson McCullers and the Southern Gothic" lecture Did Carson McCullers "invent" Southern Gothic? Southern literature expert and former McCullers Center director Dr. Courtney George will place McCullers in the context […]
"The Illness Experience in Carson McCullers's Life and Work" lecture Dr. Casey Kayser, president of the Carson McCullers Society, will provide a forward-looking interpretation of the influence of the maladies […]
Historic Jewish Atlanta Civil Rights Tour The history of race relations in Atlanta is often examined only from white and African American perspectives. Jewish testimony provides an important third perspective […]
Historic Jewish Atlanta Civil Rights Tour The history of race relations in Atlanta is often examined only from white and African American perspectives. Jewish testimony provides an important third perspective […]
"Racism in the Era of Jackie Robinson" lecture University of West Georgia history professor Larry Rivers will deliver a lecture in conjunction with the Jackie Robinson: Baseball and Civil Rights […]
