this new play explores the women behind the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike, one of the largest, successful interracial, organized labor strikes of the post-Civil War era. “The Wash” was ...

Hess has produced once again an excellent history of a Civil War battle ... or turning point of the Atlanta Campaign is incorrect. Besides his usual tour-de-force of the battle narrative, Hess devotes ...

ATLANTA — Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late ...