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Justice Clarence Thomas Suggested Readings Jane Flax, The American Dream in Black and White: The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998). Scott Douglas Gerber, First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas (New York: New York University Press, 1999). Christopher E. Smith and Joyce A. Baugh, The Real Clarence Thomas: Confirmation Veracity Meets […]

Martin Luther King, Jr. Suggested Readings Taylor B. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006). Clayborne Carson, ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Warner Books, 1998). Michael Eric Dyson, I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. […]

Georgia Institute of Technology Suggested Readings Eugene Griessman et al., Images and Memories: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985 (Atlanta: Georgia Tech Foundation, 1985). Robert C. McMath Jr. et al., Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985). “Georgia Institute of Technology.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h- 1416&sug=y

Bombing of Hebrew Benevolent Temple in Atlanta, GA Suggested Readings Janice Rothschild Blumberg, “The Bomb That Healed: A Personal Memoir of the Bombing of the Temple in Atlanta, 1958,” American Jewish History73, no. 1 (1983). Janice Rothschild Blumberg, “Jacob M. Rothschild: His Legacy Twenty Years After,” in The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil […]

Charles Lindbergh in Atlanta Suggested Readings A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1998). Franklin M. Garrett, Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 3 vols. (1854; reprint, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969). Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1953). Charles A. Lindbergh, We […]

Frank Sinkwich Suggested Readings Claude Felton, ed., 2001 Georgia Football Media Guide (Athens: University of Georgia Athletic Association, 2001). Loran Smith, ed., Between the Hedges: 100 Years of Georgia Football (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1992). “Frank Sinkwich (1920-1990),” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-833&sug=y “Georgia Football History.” http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/geo- football-history.html

Jimmy Carter Suggested Readings Peter G. Bourne, Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Post- Presidency(New York: Scribner, 1997). Douglas Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey beyond the White House (New York: Viking, 1998). Frye Gaillard, Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007). Kenneth E. Morris, […]

The Spanish Flu Suggested Readings Barry, John. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Viking). Crosby, Alfred. America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (Cambridge University Press). Duncan, Kirsty. Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist’s Search for a Killer Virus. (University of Toronto Press). Iezzoni, Lynette. Influenza 1918: The Worst […]

FDR and Warm Springs Suggested Readings William P. Rhoads, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Architecture of Warm Springs,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 67 (spring 1983). Susan Richards Shreve, Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). “Warm Springs.” New Georgia Encyclopedia: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-767&hl=y “Roosevelt Warm Springs, History.” http://www.rooseveltrehab.org/history.php “Roosevelt Little White […]

Casimir Pulaski Suggested Readings R. D. Jamro, Pulaski: A Portrait of Freedom (Savannah, Ga.: Printcraft, 1979). Francis Casimir Kajencki, Casimir Pulaski: Cavalry Commander of the American Revolution(El Paso, Tex.: Southwest Polonia Press, 2001). “Proof Positive: Historian Uncovers Documents Proving Pulaski’s Date of Birth,” Polish American Journal 87 (April 1998). “Casimir Pulaski in Georgia.” New Georgia […]