Culture and Society

Delve into Hollywood’s portrayal of the South and its cultural impact with this list of highly impactful films that worked to critique, contextualize, or convolute the South’s complicated history.

This summer, along with history and civics organizations across the country, we invite you to join in a program dedicated to the Civic Season.

Yann and Mareth Mak escaped Cambodia with their eight children arriving in Atlanta in October 1981 to get away from genocide carried out by Khmer Rouge.

Luster in conversation conversation with ART ATL’s Gail O’ Neill

The Book of Longings. In conversation with GPB’s Virginia Prescott.

Atlanta History Center is a founding partner and host site for two installations in Midtown Alliance’s Heart of the Arts program.

Honoring the legacy of baseball player, racial equality activist, and historic home run record breaker, Hank Aaron.

Students attend a ballet class at Norma’s Academy of Fine Arts on Campbellton Road in southwest Atlanta on November 17, 1973.

Guests gather at Charles and Dorothy Ross’s home on Eleanor Terrace in Collier Heights for a party in 1975.

Members of Midtown’s famous hippy community relax in Piedmont Park during a 1972 Hare Krishna festival.

Guy Sharp, a meteorologist on WXIA-TV, gets into costume for a dinner party announcing the release of a sequel to the movie Planet of the Apes.

A sign at the Union County Fair advertises Madam Tillie’s fortune telling services in 1972.

An employee works in the production room at the offices of the Atlanta Inquirer, a Black-owned newspaper, on Parson Street, ca. 1970.

Friends hanging out on a Midtown front porch, ca. 1970.