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Siege of Savannah Suggested Readings Kenneth Coleman, The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958). Leslie Hall, Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001). Harvey H. Jackson, Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979). Martha Condray Searcy, The Georgia-Florida Contest […]

Viola Ross Napier & Bessie Kempton Suggested Readings Dictionary of Georgia Biography, ed. Kenneth Coleman and Charles Stephen Gurr (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983), s.v. “Napier, Viola Ross.” “Viola Ross Napier (1881-1962).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3142&sug=y Georgia Women of Achievement: http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/napier-viola-ross/

Carving Resumed Stone Mountain Suggested Readings David B. Freeman, Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1997). Grace Elizabeth Hale, “Granite Stopped Time: The Stone Mountain Memorial and the Representation of White Southern Identity,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (spring 1998): 22-44. Paul Stephen Hudson and Melora P. Mirza, Atlanta’s […]

Joseph Wheeler Suggested Readings Thomas Conn Bryan, Confederate Georgia(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1953). David Carlson, “The “‘Loanly Runagee’”: Draft Evaders in Confederate South Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (winter 2000): 589-615. Robert S. Davis Jr., “Memoirs of a Partisan War: Sion Darnell Remembers North Georgia, 1861-1865,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (spring 1996): 93-116. Lee […]

Otis Redding Suggested Readings Geoff Brown, Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness (Edinburgh, Scotland: Mojo, 2001). Scott Freeman, Otis! The Otis Redding Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001). Peter Guralnick, Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (New York: Harper and Row, 1986). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3d […]

Horace King Suggested Readings Rev. F. L. Cherry, “Horace King,” in “The History of Opelika and Her Agricultural Tributary Territory,” Alabama Historical Quarterly 15, no. 2 (1953): 178-339, and nos. 3, 4 (1953): 383-537. Thomas L. French Jr. and Edward L. French, “Horace King, Bridge Builder,” Alabama Heritage 11 (winter 1989), 35-47. John S. Lupold […]

Louise Suggs Suggested Readings Suggs, Louise. Par golf for women. New York, Prentice-Hall, 1953. Find it at the Georgia Historical Society. Main Collection, Call Number: GV965 .S92 LPGA Website: http://www.lpga.com/player_results.aspx?id=677 World Gold Hall of Fame:http://www.worldgolfhalloffame.org/hof/member.php?member=1111 Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Outdoor Sports, ed. David L. Porter (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), s.v. “Suggs, Louise.” Ed […]

Heart of Atlanta Motel Suggested Readings WSB-TV newsfilm clip of attorney Moreton Rolleston speaking to a reporter following the United States Supreme Court ruling upholding the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the integration of the Heart of Atlanta Motel in Atlanta, Georgia, 1964 December 14. http://crdl.usg.edu/cgi/crdl?query=id%3Augabma_wsbn_31715&_cc=1&Welcome “Heart of Atlanta Motel […]

Vince Dooley Suggested Readings Vince Dooley papers, 1950s-2004. Call Number: MS 2363 Location: Manuscript Collection, Georgia Historical Society Bill Cromartie, Clean Old-Fashioned Hate, 8th ed. (Atlanta: Gridiron Publishers, 2002). Vince Dooley, with paintings by Steve Penley, Vince Dooley’s Garden: A Horticultural Journey of a Football Coach (Decatur, Ga.: Looking Glass Books, 2010). Vince Dooley with […]

Thomas Milton Rivers Suggested Readings Saul Benison: Tom Rivers – Reflections on a Life in Medicine and Science, Cambridge, Mass., 1967 David Oshinsky: Polio: An American Story. Oxford University Press, 2005 Thomas M. Rivers Papers, 1887-1963, 10.0 Linear feet , Mss.B.R52 http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R52-ead.xml;query=;brand=default#bioghist Thomas Milton Rivers. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/504936/Thomas-Milton-Rivers