Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Dominique Wilkins “Dominique Wilkins.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1988&sug=y Georgia Sports Hall of Fame: http://www.gshf.org/ Georgia Dawgs Men’s Basketball History: http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec- rel/geo-m-baskbl-history.html Atlanta Hawks: http://www.nba.com/hawks/landing_page_031512.html Basketball Reference: http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wilkido01.html NBA Encyclopedia: http://www.nba.com/history/players/wilkins_summary.html

Learn More – Henry L. Benning James C. Cobb, “The Making of a Secessionist: Henry L. Benning and the Coming of the Civil War,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 60 (winter 1976): 313-23. William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, eds., Secession Debated: Georgia’s Showdown in 1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). “Henry L. Benning (1814 […]

Learn More – Tunis Campbell Edmund L. Drago, Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982). Russell Duncan, Freedom’s Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986). “Tunis Campbell (1821-1891).” New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2903&sug=y Nicholsonboro Historical Marker Erected by Georgia Historical Commission/Department […]

Learn More – First Masters Tournament Begins Steve Eubanks, Augusta: Home of the Masters Tournament (Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997). David Owen, The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf’s Most Prestigious Tournament (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999). Clifford Roberts, The Story of the Augusta National Golf Club (Garden City, […]

Learn More – Georgia Native Americans Travel to England Danny Amor & Edward Cashin, Oglethorpe’s London: A Cabbie’s Tour of Colonial Georgia Sites (Augusta, GA: Center for the Study of Georgia History, 2002). Charles C. Jones Jr., Historical Sketch of Tomo-Chi-Chi, Mico of the Yamacraws (Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1868). Julie Anne Sweet. “Bearing Feathers […]

Learn More – Henry O. Flipper Lowell D. Black and Sara H. Black, An Officer and a Gentleman: The Military Career of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper (Dayton, Ohio: Lora, 1985). Jane Eppinga, Henry Ossian Flipper, West Point’s First Black Graduate (Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1996). Henry O. Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West […]

Learn More – Alfred Iverson, Jr. Dictionary of Georgia Biography, ed. Kenneth Coleman and Charles Stephen Gurr (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983), s.v. “Iverson, Alfred, Jr.” Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, vol. 2, Fredericksburg to Meridian (New York: Random House, 1963). Robert Wynstra. The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the […]

Learn More – Bell Bomber Plant Joe Kirby. The Bell Bomber Plant. Arcadia Publishing. Charleston, SC. 2008. Donald J. Norton, Larry: A Biography of Lawrence D. Bell (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981). Philip Scranton, ed., The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001). “Bell Bomber.” The New Georgia […]

Learn More – Billy Carter Billy Carter and Sybil Carter, with Ken Estes, Billy: Billy Carter’s Reflections on His Struggle with Fame, Alcoholism, and Cancer (Newport, R.I.: Edgehill, [1989]). Hugh Alton Carter, with Frances Spatz Leighton, Cousin Beedie and Cousin Hot: My Life with the Carter Family of Plains, Georgia (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978). […]

Learn More – Rufus Bullock James F. Cook, The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004, 3d ed. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005). Russell Duncan, Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post–Civil War Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994). Russell Duncan, “A Georgia Governor Battles Racism: Rufus Bullock and the Fight for […]