Georgia Learn More Resources

Lucy May Stanton

Learn More – Lucy May Stanton W. Stanton Forbes, Lucy M. Stanton, Artist (Atlanta: Special Collections Department, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, 1975). Betty Alice Fowler and Andrew Ladis, The Art of Lucy May Stanton (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 2003). “Lucy May Stanton (1875-1931).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-972 Lucy M. Stanton collection, 1910-1985, […]

Bobby Cox

Learn More – Bobby Cox Gary Caruso, The Braves Encyclopedia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995). Tom Owens, The Atlanta Braves Baseball Team (Springfield, N.J.: Enslow, 1998). “Bobby Cox (b. 1941).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-734&sug=y Bobby Cox on BasebalLibrary.com: http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Bobby_Cox _1941 Bobby Cox tour and interview of the National Baseball Hall of Fame: http://baseballhall.org/news/personality/preview-tour Atlanta Braves: […]

Pernell Roberts

Learn More – Pernell Roberts Biography of Pernell Roberts: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731490/bio Martin Weil, “’Bonanza,’ ‘Trapper John, M.D.’ star Pernell Roberts dies.” Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603724 .html Bonanza, Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052451/ Trapper John, M.D. : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078704/

Button Gwinnett- Lachlan McIntosh Duel

Learn More – Button Gwinnett- Lachlan McIntosh Duel Harvey H. Jackson, Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979). Charles Francis Jenkins, Button Gwinnett: Signer of the Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1926) Kenneth Coleman, The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958). […]

Battle of Resaca

Learn More – Battle of Resaca Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Albert E. Castel, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992). James Lee McDonough and James Pickett Jones, […]

Mexican War Begins

Learn More – Mexican War Begins Anthony Gene Carey, Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997). Kenneth Coleman, ed., A History of Georgia, 2d ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991). William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, eds., Secession Debated: Georgia’s Showdown in 1860 (New York: Oxford […]

Georgia’s First Land Lottery

Learn More – Georgia’s First Land Lottery Numan V. Bartley, The Creation of Modern Georgia, 2d ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990). Farris W. Cadle, Georgia Land Surveying History and Law (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991). Frederick B. Gates, “The Georgia Land Act of 1803: Political Struggle in a One-Party State,” Georgia Historical […]

SS Savannah

Learn More – SS Savannah Georgia Historical Society, Three Centuries of Georgia History: S.S. Savannah http://georgiahistory.com/containers/154#SSSavannah Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum: http://shipsofthesea.org/ http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gatransportphotos/savannahsteamship.htm At Speedwell in the Nineteenth Century, by Cam Cavanaugh, Barbara Hoskins, and Frances D. Pingeon copyright The Speedwell Village 1981: http://www.morrisparks.net/speedwell/sss/sss.html The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model […]

Hamilton Jordan

Learn More – Hamilton Jordan Hamilton Jordan, Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency (New York: Putnam, 1982). Hamilton Jordan, No Such Thing as a Bad Day: A Memoir (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 2000). “Hamilton Jordan (1944-2008).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3572&sug=y Interview with Hamilton Jordan, Carter Presidency Project The “Georgia Mafia” PBS American Experience, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/georgia- […]

Georgia Marble Company

Learn More – Georgia Marble Company Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee, Democracy Restored: A History of the Georgia State Capitol (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007). Pickens County Heritage Book Committee, Pickens County, Georgia, Heritage, 1853-1998 (Waynesville, N.C.: Don Mills, 1998). Luke E. Tate, History of Pickens County (1935; reprint, Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint […]