Georgia Learn More Resources

Learn More -Stand Watie

Learn More -Stand Watie Edward E. Dale and Gaston Litton, ed., Cherokee Cavaliers: Forty Years of Cherokee History as Told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939). Kenny A. Franks, Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation (Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1979). Morris L. Wardell, […]

First Home Depot Opened

Learn More – First Home Depot Opened Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion (New York: Times Business, 1999). Chris Roush, Inside Home Depot: How One Company Revolutionized an Industry through the Relentless Pursuit of Growth (New York: McGraw-Hill, […]

Moses Waddel

Learn More – Moses Waddel The Great Doctor Waddel by James Lewis MacLeod Southern Historical Press (June 1985) Waddel, John Newton (1891). Memorials of Academic Life: Being an Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt, by Moses Waddel 1818 Moses Waddel Historical Marker: http://georgiahistory.com/markers/423 Moses Waddel Biography, […]

Charles Coburn

Learn More – Charles Coburn Lillian C. Bragg and Margaret Godley, Stories of Old Savannah, 1st ser. ([Savannah, Ga.]: n.p., 1948). “Charles Coburn (1877-1961).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1511&sug=y Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002013/ Turner Classic Movies, “Charles Coburn Overview.” http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/36017|29167/Charles-Coburn/ Charlie Coborn, The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo -1933 footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0HQs7AMryw&feature=related Charles Coburn […]

George Heery

Learn More – George Heery Heery, George (1975). Time, Cost and Architecture. McGraw Hill. George T. Heery (b. 1927).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1079&sug=y Brookwood Group: http://www.brookwoodgroup.com/ The Bridging Method Blog written by George T. Heery: http://www.bridgingmethod.com/blog/author/gheery/ The Bridging Method of Construction Project Delivery: http://www.bridgingmethod.com/ George T. Heery Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/George-T-Heery/137264166295530

Grace Towns Hamiltton

Learn More – Grace Towns Hamilton Sharon Mitchell Mullis, “The Public Career of Grace Towns Hamilton, a Citizen Too Busy to Hate” (Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1976). Lorraine Nelson Spritzer and Jean B. Bergmark, Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997). “Grace Towns Hamilton (1907-1992).” New Georgia […]

Six Flags Over Georgia

Learn More – Six Flags Over Georgia O’Brien, Tim (1996). The Essential Guide to Six Flags Theme Parks. Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoor House, Inc. Tim Hollis, Six Flags Over Georgia (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing (October 2, 2006) Six Flags over Georgia Fast Facts: http://www.sixflags.com/overGeorgia/info/factsheet.aspx Six Flags over Georgia official website: http://www.sixflags.com/overGeorgia/index.aspx

Bill Arp

Learn More – Bill Arp James C. Austin, Bill Arp (New York: Twayne, 1969). David B. Parker, Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South’s “Goodly Heritage” (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991). “Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith, 1826-1903).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-757&sug=y “Documenting the American South: Bill Arp from the Uncivil War to […]

Fiddlin’ John Carson

Learn More – Fiddlin’ John Carson Suggested Readings Bob Coltman, “Look Out! Here He Comes, Fiddlin’ John Carson, One of a Kind, and Twice as Feisty,” Old Time Music 9 (1973). Wayne W. Daniel, Pickin’ on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990). Bill C. Malone and […]

James Earl Ray

Learn More – James Earl Ray “Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1009&sug=y CNN Interactive – James Earl Ray — http://www.cnn.com/US/9804/23/ray.obit/ PBS American Experience presents Roads to Memphis: Two Paths, One Ending — http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/memphis/ James Earl Ray, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Percy Foreman, William Bradford Huie, and Arthur J. Hanes, sr., Defendants-appellees.” United States Court […]