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Liberty Bell Suggested Readings Bruce Harvey and Lynn Watson-Powers, “The Eyes of the World Are Upon Us”: A Look at the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895,” Atlanta History 39 (fall/winter 1995): 5-11. Liberty Bell Center, Independence National Historical Park http://www.nps.gov/inde/liberty-bell-center.htm The Liberty Bell, a Special History Study – by John C. Paige Published […]

Marta Berry Suggested Readings Jonathan M. Atkins, “Philanthropy in the Mountains: Martha Berry and the Early Years of the Berry Schools,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (winter 1998). Ouida Dickey and Doyle Mathis, Berry College: A History (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005). Doyle Mathis and Ouida Dickey, Martha Berry: Sketches of Her Schools and College […]

Joseph Lowery Suggested Readings David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955-1968 (New York: William Morrow, 1986). Anthony Lewis, Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (New York: Random House, 1991).

Tomochichi Suggested Readings Phinizy Spalding and Edwin L. Jackson, James Edward Oglethorpe: A New Look at Georgia’s Founder(Athens: Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, 1988). Julie Anne Sweet, Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733-1752 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005). Helen Todd, Tomochichi: Indian Friend of the Georgia Colony […]

Bernice Johnson Reagon Suggested Readings Bernice Johnson Reagon, If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001). Bernice Johnson Reagon, We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock—Still on the Journey(New York: Anchor, 1993).

Lester Maddox Suggested Readings Justin Nystrom, “Segregation’s Last Stand: Lester Maddox and the Transformation of Atlanta,” Atlanta History45 (summer 2001). Brad Rice, “Lester Maddox and the Politics of Populism,” in Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee, ed. Harold P. Henderson and Gary L. Roberts (Athens: University of Georgia […]

Lúcas Vázquez de Ayllón Suggested Readings “Spanish Exploration.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1012&sug=y Elizabethan-era.org: http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/lucas-vasquez-de-ayllon.htm John E. Worth, The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, vol. 1, Assimilation, and vol. 2, Resistance and Destruction (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998).

Battle of Chickamauga Suggested Readings Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Peter Cozzens, This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992). Roger C. Linton, Chickamauga: A Battlefield History in Images (Athens, Ga.: University […]

Byron Herbert Reece Suggested Readings “Byron Herbert Reece, In Memoriam, I-IV,” Georgia Review 12 (winter 1958): 357-75. Raymond A. Cook, Mountain Singer: The Life and Legacy of Byron Herbert Reece, 2d ed. (Atlanta: Cherokee, 1995). Marc Fitten, ed., “Byron Herbert Reece,” special issue, Chattahoochee Review 27 (spring/summer 2007). Mildred Greear, “Meeting Byron Herbert Reece,” Chattahoochee […]

“Ma” Rainey Suggested Readings Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (New York: Pantheon, 1998). Daphne D. Harrison, Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988). Sandra R. Lieb, Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey (Amherst: University […]