Georgia Learn More Resources

Ralph McGill

Learn More – Ralph McGill Barbara Barksdale Clowse, Ralph McGill: A Biography (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998). Calvin M. Logue, ed., Ralph McGill: Editor and Publisher (Durham, N.C.: Moore, 1969). Harold Martin, Ralph McGill, Reporter (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973). Ralph McGill, The South and the Southerner (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992). Leonard Ray […]

Arthur Blank

Learn More – Arthur Blank Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion (New York: Times Business, 1999). Chris Roush, Inside Home Depot: How One Company Revolutionized an Industry through the Relentless Pursuit of Growth (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999). The […]

Thomas Hardwick

Learn More – Thomas Hardwick James F. Cook, The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004, 3d ed. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005). Josephine Mellichamp, Senators from Georgia (Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976). “Thomas Hardwick (1872-1944).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2135&sug=y Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000193 “16 Bombs Found; Mailed Here to Hylan, Morgan and […]

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Learn More – Franklin D. Roosevelt Frank Freidel, F.D.R. and the South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965). Hugh Gregory Gallagher, FDR’s Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt’s Massive Disability and the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public, rev. ed (Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press, 1994). Paul Stephen Hudson, “A Call for […]

Walter F. George

Learn More – Walter F. George Josephine Mellichamp, Senators from Georgia (Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976). Val G. Mixon, “The Foreign Policy Statesmanship of Senator Walter F. George: 1955-1956,” West Georgia College Review 6 (1973): 29-41. Luther Harmon Zeigler Jr. “Senator Walter George’s 1938 Campaign,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 43 (winter 1959): 333-52. “President Franklin Roosevelt’s […]

Oliver Hardy

Learn More – Oliver Hardy Walter Kerr, The Silent Clowns (New York: Knopf, 1975). Simon Louvish, Stan and Ollie, The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy (New York: St. Martin’s, 2002). John McCabe, Babe: The Life of Oliver Hardy (New York: Carol, 1989). Glenn Mitchell, The Laurel and Hardy Encyclopedia (London: […]

Lafayette McClaws

Learn More – Lafayette McClaws Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier: A Biography. New […]

Mary Telfair

Learn More – Mary Telfair Charles J. Johnson Jr., Mary Telfair: The Life and Legacy of a Nineteenth-Century Woman (Savannah, Ga.: Frederic C. Beil, 2002). Betty Wood, ed., Mary Telfair to Mary Few: Selected Letters, 1802-1844 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007). “Mary Telfair (1791-1875).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3149&sug=y Georgia Day Honoree: http://georgiahistory.com/containers/310 Telfair Museums: […]

University of Georgia Chartered

Learn More – University of Georgia Chartered F. N. Boney, A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia, 2d ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000). Robert Preston Brooks, The University of Georgia under Sixteen Administrations, 1785-1955 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1956). Thomas G. Dyer, The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985 (Athens: […]

Georgia Supreme Court

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