Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Alexander Stephens William C. Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001). Thomas E. Schott, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988). Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 (New York: Harper and Row, […]

Learn More – John Lewis Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998). David Halberstam, The Children (New York: Random House, 1998). John Lewis with Michael D’Orso, Walking with […]

Learn More – Ben Epps Dictionary of Georgia Biography, ed. Kenneth Coleman and Charles Stephen Gurr (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983), s.v. “Epps, Benjamin Thomas.” Additional Resources Ben Epps: The Legacy of Georgia’s First Aviator, writ. and prod. William J. Evelyn, narr. Dick Mendenhall (Athens: University of Georgia, 2001), film. Museum of Aviation: http://www.museumofaviation.org/ […]

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Learn More – Ina Dillard Russell Gilbert C. Fite, Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991). Ina Dillard Russell, Roots and Ever Green: The Selected Letters of Ina Dillard Russell, ed. Sally Russell (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999). Sally Russell, A Heart for Any Fate: The […]

Learn More – Thornwell Jacobs Paul Stephen Hudson, “‘Awake from Visioned Sleep!’ Dr. Thornwell Jacobs’s Discovery of the Tomb of James Oglethorpe,” Atlanta History 37 (summer 1993). Paul Stephen Hudson, “‘Immovable Folkways’: Thornwell Jacobs’s The Law of the White Circle and the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (summer 1999). Don Troop, […]

Learn More – Jim Brown Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero by Mike Freeman Jim Brown Out of Bounds by Jim Brown Pro Football Hall of Fame: http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?PLAYER_ID=33 Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000987/ National Lacrosse Hall of Fame: http://apps.uslacrosse.org/museum/halloffame/view_profile.php?prof_id=35

Learn More – Phil Niekro Wilfrid Binette, Knuckler: The Phil Niekro Story (Atlanta: Hallux, 1970). Gary Caruso, The Braves Encyclopedia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995). Phil Niekro and Tom Bird, Knuckle Balls (New York: Freundlich Books, 1986). Phil Niekro and Joe Niekro, The Niekro Files: The Uncensored Letters of Baseball’s Most Notorious Brothers (Chicago: Contemporary […]

Learn More – Burt Reynolds Sylvia Resnick, Burt Reynolds: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983). Burt Reynolds, My Life (New York: Hyperion, 1994). Jacob Smith, “Showing Off: Laughter and Excessive Disclosure in Burt Reynolds’ Star Image,” Film Criticism (fall 2005): 21-40. Nancy Streebeck, The Films of Burt Reynolds (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, […]

Learn More – Georgia Colony Founded Allen D. Candler et al., eds., The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, 28 vols. (vols. 1-26 reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1970), (vols. 27-32 reprinted, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1977-89). Kenneth Coleman, Colonial Georgia: A History (New York: Scribner, 1976). Amos Aschbach Ettinger, James Edward Oglethorpe: […]