Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Thomas Brewer Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (New York: Viking Press, 1987). Billy Winn, “Brewer’s Life, Death Helped Shape Our History,” Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, April 24, 1988. Billy Winn, “Brewer Was on Collision Course with 1950s,” CColumbus Ledger-Enquirer, May 1, 1988. Billy Winn, “‘Shots in Rapid Succession’ […]

Learn More – Margaret Mitchell Patrick Allen, ed., Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, 2000). Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley Jr., Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind”: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood (Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011). Anne Edwards, Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell (New Haven, […]

Andrew Young Suggested Readings Andrew J. DeRoche, Andrew Young:Civil Rights Ambassador (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2003). Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987). David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership […]

Learn More – Newt Gingrich Suggested Reading “Newt Gingrich (b. 1943).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1384&sug=y “Newt Gingrich Biography.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000225 “The Long March of Newt Gingrich,” PBS, Frontline. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/ Amy D. Bernstein and Peter W. Bernstein, eds., Quotations from Speaker Newt: The Little Red, White, and Blue Book of […]

Learn More – Sonny Perdue “Sonny Perdue (b. 1946).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2801&hl=y “Governor Sonny Perdue.” Archived official Georgia Governor Page, http://www.georgia.gov/02/gov/home/0,2218,78006749,00.html New York Times Articles on Sonny Perdue. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/p/sonny_perdue/index.html Sonny Perdue page on the Washington Post’s “Who Runs Gov” page. http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Sonny_Perdue

Learn More – Howard Finster Thelma Finster Bradshaw, Howard Finster, the Early Years: A Private Portrait of America’s Premier Folk Artist (Birmingham, Ala.: Crane Hill, 2001). Art Rosenbaum, Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983). J. F. Turner, Howard Finster, Man of Visions: The Life […]

Learn More – Georgia Capitol Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee, Democracy Restored: A History of the Georgia State Capitol (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007). Virtually Visit the Capitol Museum: http://www.sos.ga.gov/archives/museum/virtual_tour/virtual_tour_interior.htm A Guide for Exploring Georgia’s History and Government: http://www.sos.ga.gov/archives/state_capitol/getting_to_know_georgia.pdf “Georgia State Capitol.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1148&sug=y

Learn More – Destruction of Atlanta Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Sarah Conley Clayton, Requiem for a Lost City: A Memoir of Civil War Atlanta and the Old South, ed. Robert Scott Davis Jr. (Macon, Ga.: […]

Learn More – Bobby Dodd John C. Chase, Chase’n the Jackets (St. Simons, Ga.: Coastyle Graphics, 2004). Kim King and Jack Wilkinson, Kim King’s Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline (Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing, 2004). Neil B. McGahee, “The Golden Season,” Tech Topics (fall 2002). Kent Stephens, The College Football Hall of Fame: A Chronicle […]

Learn More – Henry Wirz Ovid L. Futch, History of Andersonville Prison (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1968). William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994). Andersonville National Historic Site: http://www.nps.gov/ande/index.htm “Famous Trials: The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz Commandant Andersonville Prison 1865.” http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Wirz/Wirz.htm “Andersonville Prison,” New Georgia Encyclopedia. […]