Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Jefferson Davis in Atlanta The death and resurrection of Jefferson Davis, By Donald E. Collins, (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005). This Day in Georgia History on Galileo: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/tdgh-may/may01.htm “John B. Gordon (1832-1904).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2805&sug=y The Papers of Jefferson Davis: http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/ Museum of the Confederacy: http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=visit_wh_main The Jefferson Davis Home and […]

Learn More – Steve Bartkowski Inducted into Hall of Fame Georgia Sports Hall of Fame: http://www.gshf.org/ “Steve Bartkowski: Building new legacy.” http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2882934 Steve Bartkowski on NFL.com: http://www.nfl.com/player/stevebartkowski/2509103/profile Steve Bartkowsi on SportsUSA: http://www.sportsstarsusa.com/Steve-Bartkowski

Learn More – Slavery in Colonial Georgia Harvey H. Jackson and Phinizy Spalding, eds., Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984). Julia Floyd Smith, Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia, 1750-1860 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985). Darold D. Wax, “‘New Negroes Are Always in Demand’: […]

Learn More – Carl Sanders James F. Cook, Carl Sanders, Spokesman of the New South (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1993). Harold P. Henderson and Gary L. Roberts, eds., Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988). “Carl Sanders (b. 1925).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. […]

Learn More – George Washington in Georgia This Day in Georgia History, May 12: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/tdgh-may/may12.htm The diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791 : embracing the opening of the first Congress, and his tours through New England, Long Island, and the southern states. Together with his Journal of a tour to the Ohio, in […]

Learn More – Dave Prater Robert M J Bowman &, Rob Bowman. Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records. (Schirmer Trade Books: April 1, 2003) Peter Guralnick. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (Back Bay Books: July 1, 1999) Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: http://rockhall.com/inductees/sam-and-dave Sam Moore Official […]

Learn More – Henry McNeal Turner Dies Stephen Ward Angell, Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992). Edwin S. Redkey, Black Exodus: Black Nationalist and Back-to-Africa Movements, 1890-1910 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969). Edwin S. Redkey, ed., Respect Black: The Writings and Speeches of Henry […]

Learn More – George Whitefield Arrives in Savannah Robert Backhouse, ed., The Journals of George Whitefield (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993). Edward J. Cashin, Beloved Bethesda: A History of George Whitefield’s Home for Boys, 1740- 2000 (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001). Marcus L. Loane, Oxford and the Evangelical Succession (London: Lutterworth Press, 1950). Douglas […]

Learn More – Carl Issacs Executed for Alday Family Murders PRESS ADVISORY: Attorney General Baker Announces Execution of Carl Isaacs, Georgia’s Longest Serving Death Row Inmate http://www.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,87670814_88948796_88950628,00.ht ml This Day In Georgia: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/tdgh-may/may06.htm JERRY SCHWARTZ, “Man Convicted Again in Killing of Georgia Family,” New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/26/us/man-convicted-again-in-killing-of-georgia- family.html Understanding the Federal Courts: http://www.uscourts.gov/FederalCourts.aspx Debating the […]

Learn More – Atlanta Campaign Begins 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 Castel, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992). Stephen Davis et al., Blue & Gray Magazine’s […]