Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Georgia Aquarium Georgia Aquarium: http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/ Tour the Georgia Aquarium Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHQmrE1hv0 Israeli Democracy Institute: http://www.idi.org.il/sites/english/Pages/homepage.aspx Marcus Autism Center: http://www.marcus.org/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/ Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank with Bob Andelman, Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion […]

Learn More – Abraham Baldwin Abraham Baldwin, Georgia Day Honorees: http://georgiahistory.com/containers/232 United States Constitution, Three Centuries of GeorgiaHistory: http://georgiahistory.com/containers/46 E. Merton Coulter, Abraham Baldwin: Patriot, Educator, and Founding Father (Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press, 1987). Thomas G. Dyer, The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985). Patrick J. Furlong, “Abraham […]

Learn More – James Wright W. W. Abbot, The Royal Governors of Georgia, 1754-1775 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959). Kenneth Coleman, The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958). James F. Cook, The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004, 3d ed. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005). Leslie Hall, Land […]

Learn More – Ted Turner Ken Auletta, Media Man: Ted Turner’s Improbable Empire (New York: Norton, 2004). Porter Bibb, Ted Turner: It Ain’t As Easy As It Looks: A Biography (Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books, 1997). Jeremy Byman, Ted Turner: Cable Television Tycoon (Greensboro, N.C.: M. Reynolds, 1998). Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg, Citizen Turner: […]

Learn More – Johnny Mercer Philip Furia, Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003). Johnny Mercer Collection, Georgia State University Library http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/area.asp?ldID=105&guideID=505 Johnny Mercer Centennial, http://www.johnnymercercentennial.com/ Johnny Mercer Biography, Friends of Johnny Mercer, http://friendsofjohnnymercer.com/FJM_bio.htm Johnny Mercer Foundation, http://www.johnnymercerfoundation.org/intro.html “Johnny Mercer (1909-1976).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-954&sug=y

Learn More – Joseph Emerson Brown F. N. Boney, Rebel Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1997). T. Conn Bryan, Confederate Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1953). Paul D. Escott, “Georgia,” in The Confederate Governors, ed. W. Buck Yearns (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985). Joseph H. Parks, Joseph E. Brown of Georgia (Baton […]

Learn More – Rebecca Latimer Felton LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters : Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Found in the Main collection at the Georgia Historical Society (www.georgiahistory.com) A. Louise Staman, Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia’s Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the […]

Learn More – Three Governors Controversy Harold Paulk Henderson, The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991). Calvin Kytle and James A. Mackay, Who Runs Georgia? (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998). Herman E. Talmadge, Talmadge: A Political Legacy, a Politician’s Life (Atlanta: Peachtree, 1987). […]

Learn More – Alexander Stephens William C. Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001). Thomas E. Schott, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988). Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 (New York: Harper and Row, […]

Learn More – March to the Sea Anne J. Bailey, The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). Anne J. Bailey, War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2003). William Harris Bragg, Griswoldville (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University […]