Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Fort Pulaski Seized by Georgia Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Q. A. Gillmore, Official Report to the United States Engineer, of the siege and reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, February, March, and April […]

Learn More – Georgia Ratifies U.S. Constitution E. Merton Coulter, Abraham Baldwin: Patriot, Educator, and Founding Father (Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press, 1987). Amar, Akhil Reed. America’s Constitution: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2005. Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September, 1787. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986. Collier, […]

Learn More – Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Michael Vorenberg (Jan 5, 2010) The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Conflicting Worlds) by Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford and Frank J. Williams (May 2006) Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America By Allen […]

Learn More – Sherman in Savannah Joseph T. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman’s Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns (New York: New York University Press, 1985). Noah Andre Trudeau, Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea (New York: Harper, 2008). Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War […]

Learn More – Woodrow Wilson Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters: Youth, 1856-1890 (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1927). Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, The Priceless Gift: The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962). Erick D. Montgomery, “Historical Considerations,” in Research Study: The Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson […]

Learn More – Jackie Robinson Jonathan Eig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007). Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1997). Scott Simon, Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). “Jackie Robinson (1919-1972).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1969&sug=y […]

Learn More – Ellen and William Craft R. J. M. Blackett, Beating Against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-Century Afro- American History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986). Sarah Brusky, “The Travels of William and Ellen Craft: Race and Travel Literature in the Nineteenth Century,” Prospects 25 (2000): 177-91. William and Ellen Craft, Running […]

Learn More – Fabulous Fox Theater Opens James C. Bryant, “Yaarab Temple and the Fox Theatre: The Survival of a Dream,” Atlanta History 39 (summer 1995): 5-22. Ben M. Hall, The Best Remaining Seats: The Story of the Golden Age of the Movie Palace (New York: Da Capo Press, 1988). John Clark McCall, Atlanta Fox […]

Learn More – World War II Ends Numan V. Bartley, The Creation of Modern Georgia, 2d ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990). Charles D. Chamberlain, Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003). Roger W. Lotchin and David R. Long, “World War […]

Learn More – Asa Chandler Frederick Allen, Secret Formula: How Brilliant Marketing and Relentless Salesmanship Made Coca-Cola the Best-Known Product in the World (New York: HarperBusiness, 1994). Kathryn W. Kemp, God’s Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002). “Asa Candler (1851-1929).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-633&sug=y History of Coca-Cola: http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/heritage/chronicle_the_candler_era.html Candler Building: […]