One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.

In his new book, “The Makeshift City” (GOST Books, 2024), Georgia State University photography instructor Joshua Dudley Greer tells the story of an ever-changing Atlanta in 69 color photographs made ...

Harry McAlpin made history in 1944. The journalist for the “Atlanta Daily World” became the first reporter to cover the White House. Although enslaved labor was used in every aspect of White House ...