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Georgia Delegates Sign the Declaration of Independence

Learn More – Georgia Delegates Sign the Declaration of Independence Edwin C. Bridges, Georgia’s Signers and the Declaration of Independence (Atlanta: Cherokee, 1981). Kenneth Coleman, The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958). “Button Gwinnett (1735-1777).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2543&sug=y “Lyman Hall (1724-1790).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-664 “George Walton (ca. 1749-1804).” […]

John Ross

Learn More – John Ross “Memorial of John Ross and Others,” Journal of Cherokee Studies 12, no. 1 (1987). Gary E. Moulton, John Ross, Cherokee Chief (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978). Gary E. Moulton, ed., The Papers of Chief John Ross, 2 vols. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985). “John Ross (1790-1866).” New Georgia […]

Atlanta Motor Speedway

Learn More – Atlanta Motor Speedway Greg Fielden, Forty Years of Stock Car Racing, 5 vols. (Surfside Beach, S.C.: Galfield Press, 1987-94). Paul Hemphill, Wheels: A Season on NASCAR’s Winston Cup Circuit (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997). “Atlanta Motor Speedway.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2793&sug=y Atlanta Motor Speedway: http://www.atlantamotorspeedway.com/ Official Site of NASCAR: http://www.nascar.com/ July […]

Laurence Fishburne

Learn More – Laurence Fishburne Laurence Fishburne on the Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000401/ Official Site of Laurence Fishburne: http://www.laurence-fishburne.com/ Laurence Fishburne on Emmy’s : http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/laurence-fishburne

Clarence Jordan

Learn More – Clarence Jordan Andrew S. Chancey, “Race, Religion, and Reform: Koinonia’s Challenge to Southern Society, 1942-1992” (Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1998). Clarence Jordan, The Substance of Faith and Other Cotton Patch Sermons by Clarence Jordan, ed. Dallas Lee (New York: Association Press, 1972). Tracy E. K’Meyer, Interracialism and Christian Community in the […]

Leo Frank

Learn More – Leo Frank Matthew H. Bernstein, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009). W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993). Leonard Dinnerstein, The Leo Frank Case (1968; reprint, Athens: University of Georgia […]

George Foster Peabody

Learn More – George Foster Peabody “George Foster Peabody (1852-1938),” Broadcasting and Cable, May 26, 2003. Louise Ware, George Foster Peabody: Banker, Philanthropist, Publicist (Athens: University of Georgia Press, [1951].) Dorothy Orr. (1950). A History of Education in Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. “George Foster Peabody (1852-1938).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3320&sug=y George […]

Cherokee Constitution Adopted

Learn More – Cherokee Constitution Adopted William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986). James Mooney, James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1900; reprint, Asheville, North Carolina: Historical Images, 1992). Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears […]

Atlanta Hosts Baseball’s All-Star Game

Learn More – Atlanta Hosts Baseball’s All-Star Game 1972 All-Star Baseball Game on Baseball – Almanac.com: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/yr1972as.shtml 1972 All-Star Game Results on MLB.com: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/mlb_asgrecaps_story_headline.jsp?story_page=recap_1972 1972 All-Star Game on Baseball Reference.com: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NLS/NLS197207250.shtml

Kevin Butler

Learn More – Kevin Butler “Kevin Butler” Georgia Sports Hall of Fame: http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/football/kevin_butler.pdf Career Stats on databasefootball.com: http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BUTLEKEV01 “Personality profile: ’85 Bears vs. ’07 Patriots.” By Ted Kluck : http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=kluck/071128&sportCat=nfl “Kevin Butler’s 60-Yard Field Goal to Beat the Clemson Tigers: An Open Letter to My Son on the 25th Anniversary of a Great Georgia Bulldogs […]