Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More -Treaty of New Echota Tim Alan Garrison, The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002). William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986). Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, eds. The Cherokee Removal: […]

Learn More – Erskine Caldwell lvia Jenkins Cook, Erskine Caldwell and the Fiction of Poverty: The Flesh and the Spirit (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991). Sylvia Jenkins Cook, From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976). Harvey L. Klevar, Erskine Caldwell: […]

Learn More – War of 1812 Benn, Carl. The War of 1812. New York: Routledge, 2003. Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War that Forged a Nation. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1997. Hickey, Donald R. Don’t Give […]

Learn More – Wesleyan College Samuel Luttrell Akers, The First Hundred Years of Wesleyan College, 1836-1936 ([Savannah, Ga.]: Beehive Press, 1976). F. N. Boney, “‘The Pioneer College for Women’: Wesleyan over a Century and a Half,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 72 (fall 1988): 519-32. Christie Anne Farnham, The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and […]

Learn More – Josh Gibson Baseball Hall of Fame Video: http://youtu.be/N7AkM2usAi8 Ribowsky, Mark. Josh Gibson The Power and The Darkness. University of Illinois Press, 2004. Brashler, William. Josh Gibson: a Life in the Negro Leagues. Harper & Row, 1978. Buckley, James Jr. 1,001 Facts About Hitters. DK Publishing, 2004. Holway, John. The Complete Book of […]

Learn More – Dean Rusk Warren I. Cohen, Dean Rusk (Totowa, N.J.: Cooper Square, 1980). Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, eds., The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997). Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Waging Peace and War: Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy, and […]

Learn More – Thomas Paine Read “American Crisis” on American’s Homepage: http://ahp.gatech.edu/amer_crisis_1780.html Read “Common Sense” on Constitution.org: http://www.constitution.org/tp/comsense.htm Thomas Paine Society: http://www.thomaspainesociety.org/ “Who Was Thomas Paine?” BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8089115.stm Aldridge, A. Owen, 1959. Man of Reason: The Life of Thomas Paine. Lippincott. Larkin, Edward, 2005. Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution. Cambridge University Press. Nelson, […]

Learn More – Winecoff Hotel Fire Sam Heys and Allen B. Goodwin, The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of American’s Deadliest Hotel Fire. Longstreet Pr (April 1993) David Kelly, The Bleak December. [fiction] James K. McElroy., The Winecoff Disaster (NFPA) http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/pdf/research/winecoff.pdf Peachtree Burning A one-hour documentary depicting the tragedy of our country’s deadliest hotel fire: […]

Learn More – Georgia Ratifies 13th Amendment Hoemann, George H. What God Hath Wrought: The Embodiment of Freedom in the Thirteenth Amendment. New York: Garland Pub., 1987. Holzer, Harold, and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, eds. Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. Maltz, Earl M. Civil Rights, the […]

Learn More – Jesse Mercer Born Spright Dowell, A History of Mercer University, 1833-1953 (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1958). J. R. Huddlestun, “Jesse Mercer’s Influence on the Georgia Baptist Convention,” Viewpoints: Georgia Baptist History 3 (1972): 41-66. Charles Dutton Mallary, Memoirs of Elder Jesse Mercer (New York: J. Gray, 1844). Robert W. Mondy, “Jesse […]