Atlanta Studies

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Scholarship about the city, for the city. https://www.atlantastudies.org

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Hannah Palmer is a writer and artist from the Southside of Atlanta. Through essays, memoir, and public art projects, she explores how hidden histories and wildness shape our lives in the urban landscape. Her memoir Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport (Hub City Press, 2017) was included on Atlanta Magazine’s list of “essential books that explain today’s Atlanta.” Palmer’s newest book, The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim was published by LSU Press in October 2024.
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the University of Connecticut. He is author or editor of six books, most recently America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy (Basic Books, 2023). He received his B.A. in history from Morehouse College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Indiana University.