Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Atlanta Fulton County Stadium Hudson Couch, The Braves’ First Fifteen Years in Atlanta (Atlanta: The Other Alligator Creek, 1984). Bob Hope, We Could’ve Finished Last without You: An Irreverent Look at the Atlanta Braves, the Losingest Team in Baseball for the Past 25 Years (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1991). Bob Klapish and Pete […]

Learn More – Lucy Craft Laney Robin Kadison Berson, Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), 186-94. Asa C. Griggs, “Notes: Lucy Craft Laney,” Journal of Negro History 19 (January 1934): 97-102. Mary M. Marshall, “‘Tell Them We Are Rising!’ Black Intellectuals and Lucy Craft Laney in […]

Learn More – FDR Dies Hugh Gregory Gallagher, F.D.R.’s Splendid Deception (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985). Kaye Lanning Minchew, “Shaping a Presidential Image: FDR in Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (winter 1999): 741-57 Frank Freidel, F.D.R. and the South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965). “Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2727 […]

Learn More – Vidalia Onion George E. Boyhan and Reid L. Torrance, “Vidalia Onions: Sweet Onion Production in Southeastern Georgia,” HortTechnology 12 (April-June 2002): 196-202. “Vidalia Onions.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h- 961&sug=y Vidalia Onion Committee: http://www.vidaliaonion.org/

Learn More – Peyton Anderson Jaclyn Weldon White, Bestest: The Life of Peyton Tooke Anderson, Jr. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005). “Peyton Anderson (1907-1988).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2450&sug=y Peyton Anderson Foundation: http://www.peytonanderson.org/ Macon Telegraph: http://www.macon.com/

Learn More – German U-Boat Attacks Clay Blair, Hitler’s U-boat War: The Hunted, 1942-1945 (New York: Random House, 1998). Clay Blair, Hitler’s U-boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 (New York: Random House, 1996). Michael Gannon, Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-boat Attacks along the American Coast in World War II (New York: […]

Learn More – Georgia Peach: Official State Fruit “Peaches.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-962&sug=y Sweet Georgia Peaches: http://gapeaches.org/about/rich-history-of-ga-peach The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension: http://extension.uga.edu/agriculture/ag- fruits-vegetables/peaches/ GeorgiaInfo: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gapeach.htm

Learn More – Gainesville Tornado of 1936 Gordon Sawyer, Gainesville: 1900 to 2000 (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 1999). Grazulis, T. P. Significant Tornadoes, 1680-1991. St. Johnsbury, Vt.: Environmental Films, 1993 Kramer, Stephen P. Tornado, Nature in Action (Minneapolis, Minn.). Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 199 “The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recover.” Digital Library of Georgia. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/tornado/ “Tornado […]

Learn More – Wyche Fowler Richard F. Fenno Jr., Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996). Broder, David S., Wyche Fowler, Jr., et al. “What We Ought to Know About Our National Legislature.” In Understanding Congress: Research Perspectives, edited by Roger Davidson and Richard C. Sachs, pp. […]

Learn More – Martin Luther King, Jr. Taylor B. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006). Taylor B. Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). Taylor B. Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 […]