Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More – Civil Rights Act of 1964 View a digital copy if the Civil Rights act on the National Archive’s Our Documents.gov http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97 Teaching With Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act/ Haskins, James and Kathleen Benson. The 60s Reader. New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988. Stephen G. […]

Learn More – Centers for Disease Control Established Elizabeth W. Etheridge, Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1209&sug=y David J. Sencer CDC Museum: http://www.cdc.gov/museum/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/ “The Executive Branch.” White […]

Learn More – John Hope Leroy Davis, A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998). “John Hope (1868-1936).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-855&sug=y Morehouse College. New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1456&sug=y Clark Atlanta University. New Georgia Encyclopedia. […]

Learn More – James Oglethorpe John C. Inscoe, ed., James Edward Oglethorpe: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy (Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1997). Phinizy Spalding, Oglethorpe in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977). Phinizy Spalding and Edwin L. Jackson, James Edward Oglethorpe: A New Look at Georgia’s Founder (Athens: Carl Vinson Institute of […]

Learn More – Georgia Lottery Begins Gary T. Henry, Ross Rubenstein, and Daniel T. Bugler, “Is HOPE Enough? Impacts of Receiving and Losing Merit-Based Financial Aid,” Educational Policy 18 (November 2004): 686-709. Quentin Mostoller, “On Income Effects of the HOPE Scholarship” (master’s thesis, University of Georgia, 1998). Julie Ann Ellington Turner, “The Impact of the […]

Learn More – W.C. Bradley Born Richard Hyatt, “100 People to Remember: W. C. Bradley, D. Abbott Turner, and William B. Turner,” Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, December 31, 1999. John S. Lupold et al., Heritage Park: A Celebration of the Industrial Heritage of Columbus, Georgia (Columbus, Ga.: Historic Columbus Foundation, 1999). William B. Turner, The Learning of […]

Learn More – Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Richard A. Baumgartner and Larry M. Strayer, Kennesaw Mountain, June 1864: Bitter Standoff at the Gibraltar of Georgia (Huntington, W. Va.: Blue Acorn Press, 2000). Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, […]

Learn More – Georgia Ratifies the 18th Amendment David M. Fahey, Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996). Nancy A. Hardesty, “‘The Best Temperance Organization in the Land’: Southern Methodists and the W.C.T.U. in Georgia,” Methodist History 28 (April 1990). Timothy S. Huebner, “Joseph Henry […]

Learn More – Atlanta Thrashers “Atlanta Thrashers.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3548&sug=y “Thrashers headed to Winnipeg.” ESPN News: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=6610414 Bird Watchers Anonymous -An unofficial Atlanta Thrashers blog: http://www.birdwatchersanonymous.com/

Learn More – Mary Latimer McLendon Stacey Horstmann Gatti, “Mary Latimer McLendon: ‘Mother of Suffrage Work in Georgia,’” in Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1., ed. Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009). Carole A. Stevens, “The Road Is Still Rough: The Contribution of the Latimer Sisters to […]