Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Herschel Walker Jim Benagh, Sports Great Herschel Walker (Hillside, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1990). S. H. Burchard, Herschel Walker (San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984). Jeff Prugh, Herschel Walker: From the Georgia Backwoods and the Heisman Trophy to the Pros (New York: Random House, 1983). Herschel Walker and Terry Todd, Herschel Walker’s […]

Learn More – John Forsyth James F. Cook, The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004, 3d ed. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005). Alvin Laroy Duckett, John Forsyth: Political Tactician (Athens: University of Georgia Press, [1962]). Josephine Mellichamp, Senators from Georgia (Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976). “John Forsyth (1780-1841).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2821&sug=y Biographical Dictionary of the […]

Learn More – John Wesley V. H. H. Green, The Young Mr. Wesley: A Study of John Wesley and Oxford (London: Edward Arnold, 1961). Harry D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism, 2d ed. (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1993). Samuel J. Rogal, John and Charles Wesley (Boston: Twayne, 1983). John Telford, […]

Learn More – William Crawford Philip Jackson Green, The Life of William Harris Crawford ([Charlotte: University of North Carolina, 1965]). Chase C. Mooney, William H. Crawford, 1772-1834 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974). J. E. D. Shipp, Giant Days, or the Life and Times of William H. Crawford (Americus, Ga.: Southern Printers, 1909). “William Harris […]

Learn More – Frank Yerby Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors (Detroit: Gale, 1989), s.v. “Frank Yerby.” Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Learn More – R.E.M. Dave Bowler and Bryan Day, R.E.M.: From “Chronic Town” to “Monster” (New York: Citadel Press, 1995). Rodger Lyle Brown, Party out of Bounds: The B-52’s, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia(New York: Plume, 1991). Marcus Gray, It Crawled from the South: An R.E.M. Companion (New York: Da Capo Press, […]

Learn More – Fanny Kemble Margaret Armstrong, Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian (New York: Macmillan, 1938). Malcolm Bell, Major Butler’s Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987). Margaret Davis Cate, “Mistakes in Fanny Kemble’s Georgia Journal,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 44 (March 1960). Catherine Clinton, Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars (New […]

Learn More – FDR Establishes Thanksgiving James W. Baker. Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday (Revisiting New England). University of New Hampshire Press: 2009. Library of Congress, Thanksgiving: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/thanksgiving/ Pilgrim Hall Museum: http://www.pilgrimhall.org/f_thanks.htm Plimoth Plantation, Smithsonian Institute Affiliations Program: http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/read/thanksgiving-history “Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2727&hl=y

Learn More – Albany Movement Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). Clayborne Carson, “SNCC and the Albany Movement,” Journal of Southwest Georgia History 2 (1984): 15-25. Michael Chalfen, “Rev. Samuel B. Wells and Black Protest in Albany, 1945-1965,” Journal of Southwest Georgia History 9 […]

Learn More – Robert Abbott Christopher C. De Santis, ed., Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995). St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, rev. and enl. ed. (1945; reprint, Chicago: University […]