Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Dahlonega Gold Rush “I Remember Dahlonega”: Memories of Growing Up in Lumpkin County, as told to Anne Dismukes Amerson, vol. 1 (Alpharetta, Ga.: Legacy Communications, 1990), and vol. 2 (Dahlonega, Ga.: Chestatee Publications, 1992). Lumpkin County Heritage Book Committee, Heritage of Lumpkin County, Georgia, 1832-1996 (Waynesville, N.C.: Don Mills, 1996). William Pittman […]

Learn More – Muhammad Ali Ronald H. Bayor, Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Official Muhammad Ali website: http://www.ali.com/

Learn More – James Brown James Brown, I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul (New York: New American Library, 2005). Gerri Hirshey, Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music(New York: Times Books, 1984). Rickey Vincent and George Clinton, Funk: the Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One(New York: St. […]

Cumberland Island Suggested Readings Mary R. Bullard, Cumberland Island: A History(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003). Lary M. Dilsaver, Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004). Hilburn O. Hillestad et al., The Ecology of the Cumberland Island National Seashore, Camden County, Georgia(Skidaway Island: Georgia Marine Science Center, […]

Henry Grady Suggested Readings Ferald J. Bryan, Henry Grady or Tom Watson? The Rhetorical Struggle for the New South, 1880-1890(Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1994). Harold E. Davis, Henry Grady’s New South: Atlanta, a Brave Beautiful City (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990). Joel Chandler Harris, Joel Chandler Harris’s Life of Henry W. Grady Including […]

Lewis Grizzard Suggested Readings Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture (New York: Times Books, 1996). Charles R. Wilson, “Lewis Grizzard,” Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). “Lewis Grizzard (1946-1994).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-987&sug=y

Lyman Hall Suggested Readings James F. Cook,

Scottish Highlanders Suggested Readings Anthony W. Parker, Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735-1748 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997). Jeannine Cook, Fort King George: Step One to Statehood (Darien, Ga.: Darien News, 1990). “Darien.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-645&hl=y

Paul Anderson Suggested Readings Paul Anderson, with Jerry B. Jenkins and James R. Adair, A Greater Strength (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell, 1990). Bob Hise and Steve Neece, “Paul Anderson,” MuscleMag International, July 1995. Ed Linn, “Paul Anderson, the Georgia Strong Boy,” Sport, June 1956. Randall J. Strossen, Paul Anderson, the Mightiest Minister (Nevada […]

Maynard Holbrock Jackson Suggested Readings Frederick Allen, Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City, 1946-1996 (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1996). “A Champion for Atlanta: Maynard Jackson, a Memorial Section,” Atlanta Journal- Constitution, June 29, 2003. David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler, eds., African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City (Urbana: University of Illinois […]