Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – John Brown Gordon Ralph Lowell Eckert, John Brown Gordon: Soldier, Southerner, American (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989). John B. Gordon, Reminiscences of the Civil War (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1903). Access digitally here: http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/gordon/gordon.html Allen P. Tankersley, John B. Gordon: A Study in Gallantry (Atlanta: Whitehall Press, 1955). “John B. […]

Iranian Hostage Crisis “General Article: Iranian Hostage Crisis.” PBS, American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-hostage-crisis/ “20 Years After the Hostages” http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21 The National Security Archive at George Washington University publishes an electronic briefing book of declassified national security documents on U.S.-Iran relations. “Held Hostage in Iran: A First Tour Like No Other.” https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/spring98/iran.html Former CIA agent William J. […]

Learn More – Cynthia McKinney Cynthia McKinney’s Personal Blog: http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/ Cynthia McKinney For President Page: http://mothball.runcynthiarun.org/ “McKINNEY, Cynthia Ann, (1955).” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000523

Learn More – Senator Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. David M. Barrett, Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993). Gilbert C. Fite, Richard B. Russell Jr., Senator from Georgia(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991). John A. Goldsmith, Colleagues: Richard B. Russell and His Apprentice, Lyndon B. Johnson […]

Learn More – Crawford Long Frank Kells Boland, The First Anesthetic: The Story of Crawford Long (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1950). Evelyn Ward Gay, The Medical Profession in Georgia, 1733-1983 (Atlanta: Auxilary to the Medical Association of Georgia, 1983). Thomas E. Keys, The History of Surgical Anesthesia (New York: Dover, 1963). Ruby Lorraine Radford, […]

Learn More – King George II Kenneth Coleman, Colonial Georgia: A History(New York: Scribner, 1976). Harold E. Davis, The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1976]). “Royal Georgia, 1752-1776.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-818 “George II (1683 – 1760)”, BBC Historic Figures, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/george_ii_king.shtml

Juliette Gordon Low Melissa Ann Langley Biegert, “Woman Scout: The Empowerment of Juliette Gordon Low” (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1998). Anne Hyde Choate and Helen Ferris, eds., Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts (New York: Girl Scouts of the USA, 1928). Gladys Denny Schultz and Daisy Gordon Lawrence, Lady from Savannah: The […]

Learn More – Von Gammon Macon Telegraph Oct. 31, 1897 – reporting on Von Gammon’s accident Macon Telegraph Nov. 2, 1897 – reporting an specualtion that football may be abolished in Georgia Red and Black Jan. 26, 1951 – article about Mrs. Gammon Red and Black Oct. 30, 1997 – article 100 years after the […]

Learn More – Duane Allman Marley Brant, Southern Rockers: The Roots and Legacy of Southern Rock (New York: Billboard, 1999). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3d ed., comp. and ed. Colin Larkin, (London: Muze, 1998), s.v. “Allman Brothers Band.” Scott Freeman, Midnight Riders: The Story of the Allman Brothers Band (Boston: Little, Brown 1995). The […]

Learn More – Braves win World Series Gary Caruso, The Braves Encyclopedia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995). Bob Hope, We Could’ve Finished Last without You: An Irreverent Look at the Atlanta Braves, the Losingest Team in Baseball for the Past 25 Years (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1991). Bob Klapish and Pete Van Wieren, The Braves: An […]