Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Battle of Kettle Creek Otis Ashmore and Charles H. Olmstead, “The Battles of Kettle Creek and Briar Creek,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 10 (June 1926): 85-125. Edward J. Cashin, The King’s Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989). Kenneth Coleman, The American Revolution […]

Learn More – Georgia Flag Change Michael Martinez, “The Georgia Confederate Flag Dispute,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 92 (summer 2008): 200-228. “State Flags of Georgia,” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2671&sug=y “Marvin Griffin, 1907-1982.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-827 Flags that have flown over Georgia, GeorgiaInfo: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/flagsga.htm Signing ceremony for S.B. 90: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/flagsign.htm GeorgiaInfo (1956)” http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/1956.htm

Learn More – Leila Denmark Kevin Benefield, “America’s Oldest Practicing Pediatrician Tells All,” Atlanta Magazine, May 1999. Leila Daughtry-Denmark, M.D., Every Child Should Have a Chance (New York: Vantage Press, 1971). “Dr. Leila Denmark’s secret: Love what you do,” http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1998/07/27/focus2.html “Leila Denmark (b. 1898),” New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3395&sug=y

Learn More – William Few Charles C. Jones Jr., “William Few, Lieutenant-Colonel Georgia Militia in the Revolutionary Service,” [with an] “Autobiography of Colonel Few of Georgia,” Magazine of American History, November 1881, 340-58. Gerald J. Smith, To Seek a Newer World: A History of Columbia County, Georgia (Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Southern Heritage Press, 2001). “William Few […]

Learn More – Massive Resistance 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). Andrew M. Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004). Stephen G. N. […]

Learn More – Alice Walker The Color Purple, writ. Alice Walker and Menno Meyjes, dir. Steven Spielberg (Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros., 1985). Erma Davis Banks and Keith Byerman, Alice Walker: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968-1986 (New York: Garland, 1989). Harold Bloom, ed., Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” Modern Critical Interpretations series (New York: Chelsea House, 2000). […]

Learn More – Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Richard A. Baumgartner and Larry M. Strayer, Kennesaw Mountain, June 1864: Bitter Standoff at the Gibraltar of Georgia (Huntington, W. Va.: Blue Acorn Press, 2000). Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, […]

Learn More – Wally Butts James Kirby, Fumble: Bear Bryant, Wally Butts, and the Great College Football Scandal (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986). Ed Thilenius and Jim Koger, No Ifs, No Ands, a Lot of Butts: Twenty-one Years of Georgia Football (Atlanta: n.p., 1960). “Wally Butts (1905-1973).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-729&sug=y Georgia Bulldogs Former […]

Learn More – Poll Tax Abolished Michael Binford, Tom Baxter, and David Sturrock, “Georgia: Democratic Bastion No Longer,” in Southern Politics in the 1990s, ed. Alexander P. Lamis (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999). Robert A. Holmes, “The University and Politics in Atlanta,” Atlanta Historical Journal 25, no. 1 (1981). Larry Keating, Atlanta: Race, […]

Learn More – Ossie Davis Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (New York: William Morrow, 1998). Harry J. Elam Jr. and David Krasner, eds., African-American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. Molette, Black Theatre: Premise […]