Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Jesse Jewell “Pioneer Broiler Industry Leader Jesse Jewell Dies,” Poultry Times, January 22, 1975. Gordon Sawyer, The Agribusiness Poultry Industry: A History of Its Development (New York: Exposition Press, 1971). Wallace Hugh Warren, “Progress and Its Discontents: The Transformation of the Georgia Foothills, 1920-1970” (master’s thesis, University of Georgia, 1997). “Jesse Jewell […]

Learn More – German Salzburgers Arrive in Georgia George Fenwick Jones, The Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans along the Savannah (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984). Alexander Pyrges, “German Immigrants at the Ebenezer Settlement in Colonial Georgia, 1734- 1850: Integration and Separatism” (master’s thesis, Kansas State University, 2000). H. A. Scomp, History of […]

Learn More – Roy Barnes “Roy Barnes (b. 1948).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2132&sug=y Barnes Law Group: http://www.barneslawgroup.com/Attorneys/RoyEBarnes.aspx John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and- Awards/Profile-in-Courage-Award/Award-Recipients/Roy-Barnes-2003.aspx National Governors Association: http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors- bios/page_georgia/col2-content/main-content-list/title_barnes_roy.html

Learn More – Tom Murphy Rick Brooks and Dan Morse, “Republican Tide Washes Away a Southern Political Legend— Speaker of Georgia House Is Defeated after Ruling the Chamber for Twenty-eight Years,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 7, 2002. Richard Hyatt, Mr. Speaker: The Biography of Tom Murphy (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1999). “Tom Murphy (1924-2007).” […]

Learn More – Charles Wesley Samuel J. Rogal, John and Charles Wesley (Boston: Twayne, 1983). David S. Williams, From Mounds to Megachurches: Georgia’s Religious Heritage (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). S T Kimbrough, Jr., ed., Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian (Nashville: Abingdon/Kingswood, 1992). S T Kimbrough, Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, The Unpublished Poetry […]

Learn More – WAGA Premiers on Georgia Television Broadcasting “Television Broadcasting.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2641&hl=y WAGA 60th Anniversary page: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/subindex/60th_anniversary Official website of Fox 5: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/

Learn More – Ezzard Charles Grace, Kevin & Grace, Joshua (2006). Cincinnati Boxing. Chicago: Arcadia. The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling and Robert Anasi (Sep 9, 2004) “Ezzard Charles.” Guide to 20th Century African American Resources at the Cincinnati History Library and Archives: http://library.cincymuseum.org/aag/bio/charles.html ESPN. Who’s really the greatest of all time? ESPN.com ranks […]

Learn More – Dred Scott Decision Ehrlich, Walter. They Have No Rights: Dred Scott’s Struggle for Freedom. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979. Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Finkelman, Paul. Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford […]

Learn More – Lachlan McIntosh Lilla Mills Hawes, ed., Lachlan McIntosh Papers in the University of Georgia Libraries (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1968). Harvey H. Jackson, Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979). Button Gwinnett: http://georgiahistory.com/containers/292 Lachlan McIntosh Historical Marker: http://georgiahistory.com/markers/3071

Learn More – Eighth Air Force Christopher J. Anderson, The Men of the Mighty Eighth: The U.S. 8th Air Force, 1942- 1945 (London: Greenhill Books, 2001). Gerald Astor, The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It (New York: D. I. Fine, 1997). Thomas Childers, Wings of Morning: […]