Georgia Historical Society
Educator Web Guide
Guide to the educational resources available on the GHS website
Theme driven guide to:
 Online exhibits
 Biographical Materials
 Primary sources
 Classroom activities
 Today in Georgia History Episodes
 New Georgia Encyclopedia Articles
 Archival Collections
 Historical Markers
Updated: July 2014
Georgia Historic al Society Educator Web Guide
Table of Contents
Pre-Colonial
Native American Cultures
Early European Exploration
1
2-3
Colonial
Establishing the Colony
3-4
Trustee Georgia
5-6
Royal Georgia
7-8
Revolutionary
Georgia and the American Revolution
Early Republic
8-10
10-12
Expansion and Conflict in Georgia
Creek and Cherokee Removal
12-13
Technology, Agriculture, & Expansion of Slavery
14-15
Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South
Secession
15-16
Civil War
17-19
Reconstruction
19-21
New South
21-23
Rise of Modern Georgia
Great Depression and the New Deal
23-24
Culture, Society, and Politics
25-26
Global Conflict
World War One
26-27
World War Two
27-28
Modern Georgia
Modern Civil Rights Movement
28-30
Post-World War Two Georgia
31-32
Georgia Since 1970
33-34
Pre-Colonial
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 2 The First Peoples of Georgia
 Pages from the rare book Etowah Papers: Exploration of the
Etowah site in Georgia. Includes images of the site and artifacts
found at the site.
Native American Cultures
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H1— The development of Native American cultures and the
impact of European exploration and settlement on the Native
American cultures in Georgia.
 Illustration based on French descriptions of Florida Native Americans.
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical background and suggested activities for Native American cultures
prior to European contact and the primary sources included in
the set.
Historical Markers
◊ Ossabaw Island ◊ Trail Ridge ◊ Sapelo Island ◊ St. Simon’s Park
Today in Georgia History
◊ October 23, 1972 Cumberland Island ◊ April 07, 1995 GA Peach Official State Fruit
GHS Collections
◊ Coastal Georgia Archaeology Society collection on the Irene Mound ◊
Reworked Savannah River spear point ◊
New Georgia Encyclopedia ◊ Late Prehistoric/Early Historic Chiefdoms (ca. A.D. 1300-1850) ◊
Mississippian Period: Overview ◊ Archaic Period: Overview ◊ Paleoindian Period Overview ◊ Stallings Island Site ◊ Lamar Period ◊ Rock
Mounds and Structures ◊ Indian Projectile Points ◊ Languages of Georgia Indians
Suggested Search Terms
Projectile points; Pre-historic; Paleo-Indian Period; Paleo-Indians; Archaic period; Archaic Indians; atlatl; shell middens; Stallings Island Site;
Woodland Period; Woodland Indians; Mississippian period; Mississippian culture; Mississippian mound builders; Rock Eagle Mound; Rock
mounds; Creek Indians; Cherokee; Chickasaw; Choctaw; Seminole
Table of Contents
Pre-Colonial
Online Exhibits
Encounter and Exchange (Early Georgia Encounters)
 Early European Encounters
 The Spanish Conquistador
 Spanish Missions
 The Debatable Land
 Ecological Imperialism
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 3 European Explorations
 Spanish map of the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia
 Pages from The Spanish settlements within the present limits of
European Exploration
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the United States: 1513-1561
Map from The Spanish missions of Georgia/John Tate Lanning; with illustrations by Willis Physioc
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H1— The development of Native American cultures and the
impact of European exploration and settlement on the Native
American cultures in Georgia.
 Account of Francisco Chicorana, a captured native who
accompanied Lucas Vasquez Ayllon as his servant, as told
by Peter Martyr D’Anghera in De Orbe Novo.
 Sketch of the Etowah mound site from Etowah Papers:
Exploration of the Etowah site in Georgia.
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Map of Spanish Missions in Georgia Illustration by Willis
Physioc.
 Diego Ribero’s 1529 World Map also called the Propaganda Map.
Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical background and suggested activities for early European exploration
and the primary sources included in the set.
Historical Markers
◊ De Soto in Georgia ◊ De Soto Trail ◊ De Soto Trail 1540 ◊ Kasihta ◊ Sapelo Island ◊ Battle of the Blankets
Today in Georgia History
September 29, 1526 Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon
Table of Contents
GHS Collections
◊ Map of Georgia Country in Spanish Days ◊ Map of St. Augustine, Florida ◊ Marmaduke Hamilton and Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd papers
New Georgia Encyclopedia ◊ Spanish Exploration ◊ French Presence in Georgia ◊ Spanish Missions
Suggested Search Terms
Missions, Spanish; Missions Georgia; Spaniards Georgia History 16th
century; Discovery and Exploration; Hernando de Soto; Jean Ribault;
René Goulainé Laudonniére; Fort Caroline; Hugenots; Fort King
George; Sir Robert Montgomery; Magravate of Azilia; Guale Indians;
Etowah; Creek Indians; Cherokee; Chickasaw; Choctaw; Seminole; Yemasee War
Colonial
Establishing the Colony
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Eighteenth Century)
 Establishing the Colony
 Plan of Savannah
 Colony of Georgia
 Plan of Ebenezer
Encounter and Exchange (Early Georgia)
 Encounter and Exchange in a New Colony
 Georgia’s Famous First Friendship
 Mary Musgrove
African-American Life & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry
 Timeline
 Learn More
 Buddy Sullivan Lecture segments 1&2
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 4 English Colonies
 Pages from Earl of Egmont list of early settlers of Georgia, ca.
1743.
Table of Contents
Colonial
Opening America’s Archives
Establishing the Colony
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H2—The colonial period of Georgia’s history
 A copy of the Charter establishing the new colony of
Georgia on April 21, 1732.
 A promotional text written by James Oglethorpe
 1734 View of Savannah
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical background and suggested activities for the founding of Georgia
and the primary sources included in the set.
Featured Historical Figures
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James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785)
Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-ca. 1763)
Tomochichi (ca. 1644-1739)
Historical Markers
◊ Savannah: Colonial Capital ◊ Landing of Oglethorpe and the Colonists ◊ Indian Trading Post: Home of Mary Musgrove ◊ Savannah Waterfront
Today in Georgia History
◊ February 12, 1733 Georgia Colony Founded◊ October 25, 1760 King
George II ◊ October 5, 1739 Tomochichi ◊ July 12, 1733 John Percival,
Earl of Egmont ◊ June 9, 1732 Georgia Charter Issued to Trustees ◊
June 30, 1785 James Oglethorpe Died
GHS Collections
◊ Collections of the GHS, Vol. I ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XX ◊ Georgia Trustees Manuscripts, MS 0278 ◊ Gentleman’s Magazine and Thomas Lediard articles on Georgia history
New Georgia Encyclopedia
◊ Colonial Immigration ◊ James Edward Oglethorpe ◊ Savannah ◊
Mary Musgrove ◊ Tomochichi ◊ Fort King George
Suggested Search Terms
Colonial; James Edward Oglethorpe; Mary Musgrove; Tomochichi;
Queen Anne; Georgia Trustees; Silk Production; Yamacraw Bluff; Earl
of Egmont; Georgia Charter
Table of Contents
Colonial
Trustee Georgia
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Eighteenth Century)
 Trustee Georgia
 Benjamin Martyn’s Impartial Enquiry
 Bethesda Home for Boys
 Early Maps
Encounter and Exchange (Early Georgia)
 An Early Melting Pot
 Jewish Colonists
 Germans Colonists
 The Highland Scots
 The Debtor Colony that Wasn’t
Encounter and Exchange (A New Encounter: Black Slaves in Georgia)
 Pre-Revolutionary Slavery
 Slavery in the Georgia Colony
 Equiano’s Experience in Georgia
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 4 English Colonies
 Pages from Earl of Egmont list of early settlers of Georgia, ca.
1743.
Chapter 5 Trustee Georgia
 Pages from Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge letter
books, account books, and manuscripts, 1732-1739
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Photographs of 1934 Salzburger Pageant
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George Fenwick Jones maps and photographs on Georgia Salzburgers, circa 1700s-1900s
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H2—The colonial period of Georgia’s history
 Benjamin Martyn’s Impartial Inquiry (1741)
 Patrick Telfair True and Historical Narrative (1740)
 A Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical
background and suggested activities for Trustee Georgia and
the primary sources included in the set.
Table of Contents
Colonial
Featured Historical Figures
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Trustee Georgia
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Samuel Nunes (ca. 1667-ca. 1741)
Paul Amatis
John Martin Blotzius (1703-1765)
Nobel Jones (1701-1775)
Abigail Minis (ca. 1701 – 1794)
Peter Tondee (ca. 1723 – 1775)
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785)
Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-ca. 1763)
Tomochichi (ca. 1644-1739)
Historical Markers
◊ Savannah Waterfront ◊ Savannah Colonial Capital ◊ Great Indian
Warrior Trading Path ◊ Colonial Park ◊ James Habersham ◊ Johnson
Square ◊ Jonathan Bryan ◊ Mulberry Grove Plantation ◊ Savannah-New
inverness Road 1736 ◊ Site of Colonial Shipyard ◊ The Georgia Hussars
◊ Tybee Lighthouse ◊ Wright Square ◊ John Wesley's American Parish◊
Italians in Georgia’s Genesis
Today in Georgia History
◊ May 17, 1749 Slavery in Colonial Georgia ◊ July 07, 1742 Battle of
Bloody Marsh ◊ March 09, 1736 Charles Wesley ◊ October 18, 1735
Scottish Highlanders ◊ March 23, 1734 Georgia Indians in England ◊
March 12, 1734 German Salzburgers Arrive in Georgia ◊ July 11, 1733
First Jewish Settlers in Georgia ◊May 07, 1738 George Whitefield ◊ December 02, 1737 John Wesley ◊ May 26, 1936 Fort Frederica
GHS Collections
◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. ◊ Collections of the GHS, Vol. III
◊Collections of GHS, Vol VI ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. VII, part I ◊
Collections of GHS, Vol. VII, part 3 ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XX ◊
Francis Moore Manuscript, MS 0573
New Georgia Encyclopedia
◊ James Edward Oglethorpe ◊ Savannah ◊ Mary Musgrove ◊ Tomochichi
◊ Slavery in Colonial Georgia ◊ Women in Colonial Georgia ◊ Trustee
Georgia, 1732-1752 ◊ Trustee Garden ◊ Malcontents ◊ Johann Martin
Boltzius (1703-1765) ◊ Ebenezer ◊ Colonial Architecture: Overview ◊
Salzburgers ◊ Moravians ◊ Colonial Military ◊ William Stephens ◊ Fort
Frederica ◊ Battle of Bloody Marsh ◊ War of Jenkins’ Ear
Suggested Search Terms
Colonial; James Edward Oglethorpe; Trustee; William Stephens; Malcontents; Salzburgers, Ebenezer; Moravian; Darien; Highland Scots;
Georgia Jewish Settlers; Battle Bloody Marsh; Fort Frederica; War of
Jenkins Ear; Bethesda; George Whitefield; John Wesley; Charles Wesley;
War of Jenkins’ Ear; Trustee Garden
Table of Contents
Colonial
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Eighteenth Century)
 Georgia and the American Revolution
 Governor James Wright
Encounter and Exchange (A New Encounter: Black Slaves in Georgia)
 Pre-Revolutionary Slavery
 Slavery in the Georgia Colony
 Equiano’s Experience in Georgia
African-American Life & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry
 Timeline
 Learn More
 Lecture by Dr. Alex Byrd
Royal Georgia
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 6 Discontent in the Colonies
 Pages from the James Wright Papers, 1772-1784
 Pages from the secondary sources The Royal governors of Geor-
gia, 1754-1775
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H2—The colonial period of Georgia’s history
 A notice of six runaway slaves from the plantation of the
Royal Governor James Wright.
 James Wright Proclamation
 Autobiography of the former slave and prominent abolitionist Olaudah Equiano
 A Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical
background and suggested activities for Royal Georgia and the
Featured Historical Figures
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John Reynolds (ca. 1713-1788)
Henry Ellis (1721-1806)
James Wright (1716-1785)
Patrick Houstoun (1698-1762)
Table of Contents
Historical Markers
◊ Hardwicke ◊ James Habersham ◊ Colonial Town Gate; Davenport
House
Today in Georgia History
◊ May 17, 1749 Slavery in Colonial Georgia ◊ November 20, 1785 James
Wright
GHS Collections
◊ John Reynolds commissions, MS 0657 ◊ James Wright papers, MS
0884 ◊ Sir James Wright Portrait ◊ Henry Ellis instructions, MS 0077 ◊
Collections of GHS, Vol. III ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XIII ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XX
New Georgia Encyclopedia
◊ Royal Georgia, 1752—1776 ◊ Henry Ellis (1721-1806) ◊ John Reynolds
(ca. 1713-1788)
Suggested Search Terms
John Reynolds 1713-1788; Henry Ellis 1721-1806; Sir James Wright 1716
-1785; Olaudah Equiano
Revolutionary
Online Exhibits
Georgia and the American
Revolution
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Eighteenth Century)
 Georgia and the American Revolution
 Council of Safety
 Royal Governor Sir James Wright
 Count Casimir Pulaski
 Abigail Minis
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 7 The American Revolution
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Proceedings of the first Provincial Congress of Georgia
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Arrest Warrant for Royal Governor James Wright from the
Georgia Council of Safety minute books, 1775-1777
Table of Contents
Revolutionary
Georgia and the American
Revolution
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H3—Georgia in the American Revolution
 Letters from Governor Sir James Wright to the Earl of
Dartmouth and Lord George Germain, Secretaries of
State for America, from August 34, 1774, to February
16, 1789
 List of Loyalists Whose Lands Were Confiscated, 1780s.
 Georgia’s copy of the Declaration of Independence
 Abigail Minis Letter
 Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist by Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston
 Georgia Gazette articles
 Map showing the plan of the Siege of Savannah,
 A Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical
background and suggested activities for Georgia in the American Revolution and the primary sources included in the set.
Featured Historical Figures
 William Bartram (1739-1823 )
 Count Charles Henri d’Estaing (1729-1794)
 Nathanael Greene (1742-1786)
 Button Gwinnett (1735-1777)
 Lyman Hall (1724-1790)
 Abigail Minis (ca. 1701 – 1794)
 Peter Tondee (ca. 1723 – 1775)
 George Walton (ca. 1749-1804)
Lecture Series Learning Packets
 William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern
Frontier
Historical Markers
◊ Archibald Bulloch ◊ Jane Culyer ◊ Georgia Navy ◊ Governor John
Houston ◊ U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth (1754-1794) ◊ Major John
Hatcher ◊ Washington’s Southern Tour I, II, III, & IV ◊ Colby Smith
(Sides 1 & 2) ◊ Fort McIntosh ◊ Fort Morris ◊ General Samuel Elbert
(1740-1788) ◊ General Lafayette ◊ Habersham Brothers ◊ Joseph Clay,
Patriot ◊ Nathan Brownson ◊ Nathanael Greene Monument ◊ Nathanael
Greene Tomb ◊ Sergeant Jasper ◊ Simon Munro ◊ The Signers Monument ◊ William Pentecost
Table of Contents
Today in Georgia History
◊ May 12, 1791 George Washington Visits ◊ October 19, 1970 Lyman
Hall ◊ February 10, 1787 William Few ◊ January 06, 1785 Samuel Elbert
◊ June 05, 1781 American Patriots Capture Augusta ◊ October 09, 1779
Casimir Pulaski ◊ September 16, 1779 Siege of Savannah ◊ February 14,
1779 Battle of Kettle Creek ◊ December 19, 1776 Thomas Paine ◊ August
02, 1776 Georgia Delegates Sign Declaration of Independence ◊ August
10, 1774 Sons of Liberty Meet in Savannah ◊ August 07, 1742 Nathanael
Greene ◊ March 05, 1727 Lachlan McIntosh ◊ June 04, 1738 George III
Born ◊ May 16, 1777 Button Gwinnett—Lachlan McIntosh Duel
GHS Collections
◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. V, part 1 ◊ GHS Collection of GHS, Vol. V,
part 2 ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. X ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol XI ◊
Collections of GHS, Vol. XII ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XX ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XXI ◊ Lachlan McIntosh papers, MS 0526 ◊ John
Berrien Certificate and Commission, MS 0068 ◊ Grapeshot, A-05509002 ◊ Drum, A-1361-107 ◊ Currency, A-1361-362 c ◊ Musket, A-1361376
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Revolutionary War in Georgia ◊ Siege of Savannah ◊ Battle of Kettle
Creek ◊ William Pierce (1753-1789) ◊ Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) ◊
William Bartram in Georgia ◊ Elijah Clarke (1742-1799) ◊ Austin Dabney (ca. 1765-1830) ◊ Nancy Hart (ca. 1735-1830) ◊ Button Gwinnett
(1735-1777) ◊ Lyman Hall (1724-1790) ◊ George Walton (ca. 17491804) ◊ David Bushnell (1740-1826) ◊ Archibald Campbell (17391791) ◊ William Ewen (ca. 1720-1776/1777) ◊ Catharine Greene (17551814) ◊ Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) ◊ Stephen Heard (1740-1815) ◊
Noble W. Jones (ca. 1723-1805) ◊ John Houstoun (ca. 1747-1796) ◊
John Martin (ca. 1730-1786)
Suggested Search Terms
American Revolution; Georgia History Revolution, 1775-1783; United
States -- History --Revolution, 1775-1783; Siege of Savannah; Georgia
loyalists; Augusta Georgia Revolution, 1775-1783
Revolutionary
Early Republic
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Eighteenth Century)
 Early Republic
 U.S. Constitution
 War of 1812
 Early Georgia History
Table of Contents
Revolutionary
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 8 Building a New Nation State
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U.S. Constitution draft annotated by Abraham Baldwin, 1787
Opening America’s Archives
Early Republic
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H4—Ratification of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights
 United States Constitution draft annotated by Abraham
Baldwin, 1787
 Georgia Convention to Ratify the Federal Constitution
Journal
 Georgia Constitution, 1777.
 A Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical
background and suggested activities for the Georgia during the
early years of the United States of America and the primary
sources included in the set.
Featured Historical Figures
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Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807)
James Jackson (1757-1806)
Historical Markers
◊ "Yazoo Fraud" ◊ Cherokee Land Lottery ◊ The Sandy Springs
Today in Georgia History
◊ January 12, 1798 James Jackson ◊ March 19, 1806 James Jackson ◊
January 02, 1788 Georgia Ratifies the U.S. ◊ November 22, 1754 Abraham Baldwin ◊ February 10, 1787 William Few ◊ May 11, 1803 Georgia’s
First Land Lottery
GHS Collections
Abraham Baldwin’s Annotated Draft of the United States Constitution,
MS 1703 ◊ Georgia Constitution, MS 1704 ◊ Yazoo Land Records, MS
0888 ◊ James Jackson Papers, MS 0422 ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. VIII
◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XI ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XIII ◊ Collections of GHS, Vol. XVII ◊ Edward Telfair Papers, MS 0791 ◊ Joseph
Vallence Beven Papers, MS 71
Table of Contents
New Georgia Encyclopedia
◊ William Few Jr. (1748-1828) ◊ Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) ◊
Georgia Constitution ◊ Constitutional Conventions ◊ Button Gwinnett
(1735-1777) ◊ John Adam Treutlen (1733-1782) ◊ William Pierce (17531789) ◊ Nathan Brownson (1742-1796) ◊ George Handley (1752-1793) ◊
Noble W. Jones (1723-1805) ◊ John Houstoun (ca. 1747-1796) ◊ David
Emanuel (ca. 1744-1808) ◊ Jared Irwin (ca. 1750-1818) ◊ Yazoo Land
Fraud ◊ James Jackson (1757-1806) ◊ George Mathews (1739-1812) ◊
John Milledge (1757-1818) ◊ Josiah Tattnall (1764-1803) ◊ Georgia
Land Lottery ◊ Land Lottery System
Suggested Search Terms
Abraham Baldwin; William Few; Georgia Constitutional Convention;
Yazoo Fraud, 1795; land speculation; Georgia land grants
Expansion and conflict in Georgia
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Nineteenth Century)
 Growth and Change in Georgia
 Georgia Gold Rush
 Cherokee Removal
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 9 The Cherokee Nation and Removal
 Page from the Cherokee Indians relocation papers, 1815-1838
 Page from the Memorial and protest of the Cherokee nation
 Page from Memorial of John Ross and others
Creek and Cherokee
removal
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
 SS8H5—Growth in Georgia and the U.S. between 1789 and
1840
 Land grant for lot 829 in Cherokee County, Georgia,1832.
 A map of the Indian Nations in the Southern Department, 1766.
 A Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical
background and suggested activities for Expansion and Conflict
in Georgia between 1789 & 1840.
Featured Historical Figures
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Sequoyah (1767-1843)
John Charles Frémont
Table of Contents
Historical Markers
◊ Chieftains ◊ Treaty of Coleraine ◊ Indian Boundary ◊ Fort Buffington
◊ New Echota Cemetery ◊ Cherokee Land Lottery ◊ New Echota Cherokee National Capital
Today in Georgia History
◊ October 27, 1828 Dahlonega Gold Rush ◊ September 15, 1831
Worcester v. Georgia ◊ December 29, 1835 Treaty of New Echota ◊ May
11, 1803 Georgia’s First Land Lottery ◊ April 30, 1825 William McIntosh ◊ April 26, 1856 George Troup ◊ July 26, 1827 Cherokee Constitution ◊ August 01, 1866 John Ross ◊ May 29, 1866 General Winfield
Scott
GHS Collections
◊ Cherokee Indians Relocation Papers, MS 0927 ◊ Collections of GH,
Vol. IX ◊ John A. Cuthbert Letter, MS 1721 ◊ Jacob R. Brooks Cherokee
Language Lexicon, MS 0093 ◊ Sequoyah Postcard, MS-1361-PC
New Georgia Encyclopedia
◊ John Clark (1766-1832) ◊ Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1816) ◊ Gold
Rush ◊ Cherokee Indians ◊ Major Ridge (ca. 1771-1839) ◊ Chieftains
Museum/Major Ridge Home ◊ John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867) ◊ Elias
Boudinot (ca. 1804-1839) ◊ Indian Missions ◊ Federal Road ◊ John
Ross (1790-1866) ◊ Cherokee Phoenix ◊ Worcester v. Georgia (1832) ◊
Creek Indians ◊ Cherokee Removal ◊ George R. Gilmer (1790-1859) ◊
Charles Rinaldo Floyd (1797-1845) ◊ Seminole Wars ◊ George Troup
(1780-1856) ◊ Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870) ◊ War of 1812 and Georgia
◊ Dahlonega ◊ Land Lottery System ◊ John Forsyth (1780-1841) ◊ William McIntosh (ca. 1778-1825) ◊ George W. Towns (1801-1854)
Suggested Search Terms
Cherokee Removal; Cherokee Indians Relocation; John Ross, Cherokee
Indians Government relations; Worcester v. Georgia 1832; Trail of
Tears, 1838-1839
Table of Contents
Expansion and conflict in Georgia
Online Exhibits
Technology,
Agriculture
And expansion
of slavery
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Nineteenth Century)
 Growth and Change in Georgia
 S.S. Savannah
 Central of Georgia Railroad
 Cotton Cultivation
Encounter and Exchange (A New Encounter: Black Slaves in Georgia)
 Plantation Economy
 King Cotton
 Exchanges in Slavery and Freedom
 Lambert Plantation
 Charles Colcock Jones
 The Plantation as a Cultural Landscape
African-American Life & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry
 Timeline
 Sites
 Learn more
 Buddy Sullivan Lecture—Segments 3 & 4
 Dr. Erskine Clarke’s Lecture
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 10: The South Before the Civil War
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Manigault Family Plantation Records 1845-1876
Arcadia Plantation Map
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 1 (Early Georgia)
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SS8H5—Growth in Georgia and the U.S. between 1789 & 1840
 Mulberry Grove Plantation Drawing, 1794.
Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 1 includes historical background and suggested activities for this period of Georgia history and the primary sources included in the set.
Table of Contents
Technology,
Agriculture
And expansion
of slavery
Featured Historical Figures
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William Washington Gordon
Andrew Bryan
Ossabaw Island: A Case Study on the African-American
Experience
Interactive Case Study
 Primary Source 1: William Hughes Survey
 Primary Source 2: Slave Inventory
 Primary Source 3: Tabby Cabins
Historical Markers
◊ Georgia Railroad and Banking Company ◊ Western & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel ◊ Hoschton Train Depot ◊ Samuel Griswold Iron-Master ◊
Big Shanty ◊ Invention of the Cotton Gin ◊ Darien’s Railroad and Depot
Today in Georgia History
◊ January 17, 1796 William Washington Gordon ◊ December 08, 1765
Eli Whitney ◊ September 8, 1807 Horace King
GHS Collections
◊ Central of Georgia Railway Records, MS 1362 ◊ Gordon Family
Papers, MS 318 ◊ Mulberry Grove Plantation Drawing , MS1361-PH
New Georgia Encyclopedia
◊ Railroads ◊ Atlanta ◊ Central of Georgia Railway ◊ Cotton Gins ◊ Agriculture in Georgia: An Overview ◊ Eli Whitney in Georgia ◊ Textile ◊
Cotton ◊ Slavery in Antebellum Georgia ◊ Antebellum Artisans ◊ Antebellum Industrialization
Suggested Search Terms
Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825: Cotton Gins and Ginning: Railroads Georgia
History
Civil War, Reconstruction and the New South
Secession
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Nineteenth Century)
 Civil War and Reconstruction
 Secession
Conquered Banners: Georgia’s Civil War Flags
 Touch Her If You Dare
The American Civil War at 150: New Approaches
 Week 1: Causes of the War
Table of Contents
Civil War, Reconstruction and the New South
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 11: Road to Disunion
 Layfayette McLaws’ Court Martial
 Layfayette McLaws’ Civil War Campaign Map
 Photographs and prints of Layfayette McLaw
Secession
Featured Historical Figures

John C. Frémont
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 2 (Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New
South)
 SS8H6—Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Georiga
 “An Address Delivered Before the Georgia Democratic
State Convention Held at Milledgeville, July 4th, 1856 by
Hon. William H. Stiles of Chatham.”
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 2 includes historical background and suggested activities for the Civil War and the primary sources included in the set.
Historical Markers
◊ Georgia's Secession Convention ◊ Howell Cobb Plantation ◊
Today in Georgia History
◊ January 19, 1861 Georgia Secedes From Union ◊ April 02, 1814 Henry
L. Benning ◊ January 07, 1861 Robert Toombs ◊ July 15, 1854 George
Towns ◊ November 14, 1869 Alexander Stephens ◊ March 06, 1857
Dred Scott Decision ◊ April 02, 1814 Henry L. Benning
GHS Collections
◊ Secession Ribbon with “Don’t Tread on Me” Rattlesnake
New Georgia Encyclopedia
◊ Secession ◊ Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 ◊ Georgia Platform
◊ Constitutional Conventions ◊ Robert Toombs ◊ Alexander Stephens
(1812-1883) ◊ Georgia and the Sectional Crisis ◊ Howell Cobb (18151868) ◊ George W. Towns (1801-1854)
Suggested Search Terms
Secession Georgia; Georgia Secession Convention; Alexander Stephens
1812-1883; Sectional Crisis; Georgia Platform
Table of Contents
Civil War, Reconstruction and the New South
Online Exhibits
Civil War
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Nineteenth Century)
 Civil War and Reconstruction
 Civil War
Conquered Banners: Georgia’s Civil War Flags
 Montgomery Cross Guards
 Savannah Cadets
 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars
 Effingham Guards
The American Civil War at 150: New Approaches
 Week 2: Choosing Sides
 Week 3: Slavery & Emancipation
African-American Life & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry
 Timeline
 Learn More
 Dr. Jacqueline Jones Lecture segments 1-7
Featured Historical Figures
 John C. Frémont
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 12: The Civil War


Sam Richard’s Civil War diary: a chronicle of the Atlanta home
front
The Southern watchman Athens, Georgia: Civil War home
front coverage, 1861-1865
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 2 (Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New
South)
 SS8H6—Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Georiga
 Letter from Robert Hamilton Harris to Martha “Mattie”
Love, c.1861-1863, Sapelo Island, Georgia
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 2 includes historical background and suggested activities for the Civil War and the primary sources included in the set.
Lecture Series Learning Packets


Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confed. Government
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad & the War for
the Soul of America
Table of Contents
Historical Markers
Georgia has over 900 historical markers related to the Civil War. Most of
these markers relate to a specific soldier movements and battles. The
following 15 markers were put up by the Georgia Hsitorical Society to
commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. ◊ March to the
Sea: Ebenezer Creek ◊ Explosion at the Confederate Powder Works ◊
Civil War Women’s Riot ◊ Georgia’s Secession Convention ◊ AfricanAmerican Soldiers in Combat ◊ Civil War Slave Conspiracy ◊
Georgians in the Union Army ◊ The Battles for Atlanta ◊ History of
Emancipation: Special Field Orders No. 15 ◊ The Burning and Destruction of Atlanta ◊ General Cleburne’s Proposal to Arm Slaves ◊Madden
Branch Massacre ◊ William Clayton Fain: Georgia Unionist ◊ Birthplace
of Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs ◊ Birthplace of Gen. John C. Fremont
Today in Georgia History
February 08, 1917Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Established◊
March 31, 1911 Alfred Iverson, Jr.◊ November 10, 1865 Henry Wirz ◊
June 23, 1865 Stand Watie ◊ April 16, 1865 Columbus Captured in the
Civil War ◊ December 22, 1864 Sherman in Savannah◊ November 12,
1864 Destruction of Atlanta ◊ September 02, 1864 Sherman Captures
Atlanta ◊ August 22, Slave Insurrection in Quitman ◊ August 15, 1864
First Black Soldiers in Combat in Georgia ◊ July 22, 1864 Battle of Atlanta ◊ June 27, 1864 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain ◊ May 14, 1864
Battle of Resaca ◊ May 05, 1864 Atlanta Campaign Begins ◊ February
25, 1864 First POWs at Andersonville Prison ◊ September 20, 1863
Battle of Chickamauga ◊ June 11, 1863 Burning of Darien ◊ December
13, 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg ◊ February 22, 1862 Alexander Stephens ◊ June 21, 1861 Francis Bartow ◊ January 03, 1861 Fort Pulaski ◊
January 15, 1821 Lafayette McLaws ◊ November 15, 1864 March to the
Sea ◊ January 01, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation ◊ March 21, 1856
Henry O. Flipper ◊ May 03, 1816 Montgomery Meigs ◊ April 02, 1814
Henry L. Benning
GHS Collections
◊ GHS is a major contributor to the project America’s Turning Point:
Document the Civil War Experience in Georgia ◊ A keyword search for
the Civil War on the GHS Image Catalog results in 255 records
including flags, photographs, letters, and more. ◊ Collections of GHS,
Volume XVI
Table of Contents
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Civil War in Georgia: Overview ◊ Battle of Kennesaw Mountain ◊ Wilson’s Raid ◊ Battle of Pickett’s Mill ◊ Union Blockade and Coastal Occupation in the Civil War ◊ Capture of Jefferson Davis ◊ Sherman’s March
to the Sea ◊ Battle of Chickamauga ◊ Deportation of Roswell Mill Women ◊ Atlanta Campaign ◊ Battle of Resca ◊ Andrews Raid ◊ Nancy Harts
Militia ◊ Black Troops in Civil war Georgia ◊ Women During the Civil
War ◊ Andersonville Prison◊ Civil War Dissent ◊ Confederate Gold◊
Welfare and Poverty during the Civil War ◊ Guerrilla Warfare during the
Civil War ◊ USS Water Witch ◊ Emancipation ◊ Sherman’s Field Orders
No. 15 ◊ Civil War: Atlanta Home Front ◊ Desertion during the Civil
War ◊ Civil War Journals, Diaries, and Memoirs ◊ Civil War Industry
and Manufacturing ◊ CSS Savannah
Suggested Search Terms
Civil War ; United States – History – Civil War; Emancipation; Confederate States of America; Civil War personal narratives; Georgia--History
--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Civil War, Reconstruction and the New South
Online Exhibits
Reconstruction
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Nineteenth Century)
 Civil War and Reconstruction
 Reconstruction
Encounter and Exchange (A New Encounter: Black Slaves in Georgia)
 Exchanges in Slavery and Freedom
 A New Landscape for Freed Slaves
African-American Life & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry
 Timeline
 Learn More
 Jacqueline Jones Lecture segments 7-10
 Dr. Alison Dorsey Lecture
Ossabaw Island: A Case Study on the African-American
Experience
Interactive Case Study
 Primary Source 4: 1881 Newspaper
Table of Contents
Civil War, Reconstruction and the New South
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 13: Reconstruction


Hugh L. Dennard Pardon and Loyalty Oath, 1865-1867
William Jones Pardon, 1865
Featured Historical Figures
Reconstruction

Mother Mathilda Beasley
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 2 (Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New
South)
 SS8H6—Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Georgia
 Photograph of former slaves in front of slave cabin on St.
Catherines Island
 “The First Colored Senator and Representatives in the
41st & 42nd Congress of the United States.”
 Pardon of William Jones by President Andrew Johnson
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 2 includes historical background and suggested activities for the Reconstruction and the
primary sources included in the set.
Historical Markers
Smyrna’s First Mayor ◊ Bellevue ◊ Exile Camp ◊ Toombs County ◊ The
Home of Charles Jones Jenkins, Jr., LL.D ◊ Houston Baptist Church ◊
Nicholsonboro ◊ Dorchester Academy ◊ Saint Phillips Monumental
A.M.E. Church
Today in Georgia History
◊ January 16, 1871 Jefferson Franklin Long ◊ April 01, 1812 Tunis
Campbell ◊ May 08, 1915 Henry McNeal Turner ◊ September 19, 1868
The Camilla Massacre ◊ September 08, 1807 Horace King
GHS Collections
◊ Pardon from President Andrew Johnson to Hugh L. Dennard, MS
1999 ◊ Pardon to William Jones of Columbia County, Georgia, MS 449
◊ Reconstruction-era letter from Edward, MS 1487 ◊ Isabella Caroline
Hamilton Papers, MS 0359 ◊ A search on the GHS Image Catalog for
“picking cotton” results in 11 photo records that provide a visual representation of the cotton industry in the New South.
Table of Contents
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Reconstruction Conventions ◊ Camila Massacre ◊ Confederate Veteran
Organizations ◊ Black Legislators during reconstruction ◊ Ku Klux Klan
in the Reconstruction Era ◊ Freedmen’s Bureau ◊ Susie King Taylor ◊
Eliza Frances Andrews ◊ Tunis Campbell ◊ Jeferson Franklin Logn ◊
James Longstreet (1821-1904) ◊ Redemption ◊ Reconstruction in
Georgia ◊ Sharecropping ◊ Freedmen’s Education during
Reconstruction
Suggested Search Terms
Reconstruction; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Freedmen’s
Bureau
Civil War, Reconstruction and the New South
Online Exhibits
New South
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Nineteenth Century)
 Growth and Change in Georgia
 S.S. Savannah
 Central of Georgia Railroad
 Cotton Cultivation
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Nineteenth Century)
 Technological Advancements
 Automobile Racing
 Wright Brothers
 Social Movements
 Girl Scouts USA
Encounter and Exchange (Progressive Encounters)
 Early Movements for Civil Rights in Georgia
 The Savannah Men’s Sunday Club
 The Niagara Movement
 Progressive Encounters with the Urban Environment
 Progressivism in Georgia
 John Nolen’s Encounter with Savannah
 Spring Cleaning in Georgia’s Oldest City
 The Swat the Fly Campaign, 1912
 The Slums
 The City Market
African-American Life & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry
 Timeline
 Sites
 Learn more
 Buddy Sullivan Lecture—Segments 4&5
 Dr. Alison Dorsey
Table of Contents
Featured Historical Figures
 Juliette Gordon Low
Ossabaw Island: A Case Study on the African-American Experience
Interactive Case Study
 Primary Source 3: Tabby Cabins
 Primary Source 4: 1881 Newspaper
New South
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 15: Georgia at the Turn of the Century
 Juliette Gordon Low Photographs and Letters
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 2 (Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New
South)
 SS8H7—Political, social, and economic changes in Georgia between 1877-1918
 Booker T. Washington “Atlanta Exposition Speech”
 “From Darkness to Light” Cotton States Promotion
 “Official Guide to the Cotton States and International
Exposition.”
 “The South and Her Problems.”
 “Lynch Law in Georgia.” pamphlet
 Coverage of the Sam Hose lynching in the Athens Weekly
Athens Banner.
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 2 includes historical background and suggested activities for the New South and the primary sources included in the set.
Historical Markers
Mary Turner and the Lynching Rampage of 1918 ◊ Leo Frank Lynching ◊
Bellevue, Home of Sen. Benjamin Harvey Hill ◊ Birthplace of Benjamin Harvey Hill ◊Joel Chandler Harris ◊ Felton Home ◊ Booker T.
Washington 1856-1915 ◊ Cotton States Exposition of 1895 ◊ Alfred Holt
Colquitt
Table of Contents
Today in Georgia History
September 6, 1905 Alonzo Herndon ◊ June 2, 1868 John Hope ◊ August 17, 1915 Leo Frank Lynching ◊ July 28, 1913 Leo Frank Trial ◊ September 18, 1895 Atlanta Cotton States & International Exposition ◊
October 21, 1891 Henry Grady ◊ November 9, 1886 John B. Gordon ◊
November 21, 1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton ◊ November 30, 1894 Joseph E. Brown ◊ April 20, 1824 Alfred Colquitt ◊ October 7, 1866
Martha Berry ◊ August 21, 1907 Georgia’s Literacy Test ◊ June 14, 1923
Fiddlin’ John Carson
GHS Collections
The Race Question Scrapbook, MS 1568 ◊ Steve Oney Papers MS 2361
◊ The Foltz Photography Studio photographs, MS 1360 includes photographs dating from the New South era.
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Redemption ◊ Bourbon Triumvirate ◊ Leo Frank Case ◊ Alonzo Herndon ◊ Cotton Expositions in Atlanta ◊ Henry W. Grady (1850-1889) ◊
Black Suffrage in the Twentieth Century ◊ Hoke Smith ◊ Atlanta Race
Riot of 1906 ◊ Rebecca Latimer Felton ◊ Segregation ◊ W.E.B. Du Bois
in Georgia ◊ Atlanta Compromise Speech ◊ Clark Atlantia University ◊
Populist Party ◊ County Unit System ◊ Constitutional Convention of
1877 ◊ Joseph E. Brown ◊ Lucius Holsey ◊ Lost Cause Religion ◊
Farmers’ Alliance ◊ Thomas E. Watson ◊ Lucy Craft Laney ◊ Auburn
Avenue (Sweet Auburn) ◊ Grant Park ◊ Inman Park ◊ Lynching ◊
Woolfolk Murder Case ◊ Ku Klux Klan in the Twentieth Century ◊
Convict Lease System ◊ Jesse O. Thomas (1885-1972) ◊ John Hope
(1868-1936)
Suggested Search Terms
Southern States--History--20th century; Southern States--History-19th century; Lynchings Georgia; Leo Frank 1884-1915
Rise of Modern Georgia
Great Depression &
the New Deal
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Twentieth Century)
 1930s
 Great Depression
 New Deal
Table of Contents
Rise of Modern Georgia
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 17: The Great Depression and the New Deal

Great Depression
& the New Deal
Works Progress Administration District 8 Scrapbook and Photo
Album 1940-1941
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 2 (Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New
South)
 SS8H8—Georgia After WWI
 Works Progress Administration District 8 Scrapbook and
Photo Album 1940-1941.
 “The Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil” pamphlet
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 2 includes historical background and suggested activities for the Great Depression and
the New Deal and the primary sources included in the set.
Historical Markers
Home of Governor E.D. Rivers ◊ Roosevelt’s Barnesville Speech ◊
Georgia Warm Spring Foundation ◊ Marion Bayard Folsom ◊ Flint River
Farms Resettlement Project
Today in Georgia History
April 12, 1945 FDR Dies at Little White House ◊ January 30, 1882
Franklin D. Roosevelt ◊ April 11, 1990 Vidalia Onion: Georgia’s Official
Veggie ◊ August 11, 1938 FDR’s Controversial Speech in Barnesville ◊
August 12, 1909 Boll Weevil in Georgia ◊ August 20, 1933 Georgians at
Chicago World’s Fair ◊ July 9, 1936 Chattahoochee National Forest ◊
April 6, 1936 Gainesville Tornado of 1936 ◊ March 13, 1902 Jesse Jewell
GHS Collections
◊ Works Progress Administration District 8 Scrapbook and Photo Album,
MS 1250 ◊ A search in the GHS Image Catalog for “Works Progress Administration” results in 53 photo records depicting W.P.A projects in
Georgia. ◊ President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Savannah Stadium, November 18, 1933, MS 1360. ◊ N.A. Pape’s personal diary, Jan. 5-Mar.
27, 1933, MS 605
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Civilian Conservation Corps ◊ Franklin G. Roosevelt in Georgia ◊ Flint
River Farms Resettlement Community ◊ Great Depression ◊ New Deal
◊ E.D. Rivers (1895-1967)
Suggested Search Terms
United States Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939;
Great Depression; Stock Market Crash, 1929; Hoover, Herbert;
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Table of Contents
Rise of Modern Georgia
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Twentieth Century)
 1930s
 Gone with the Wind
 Social Movements
 Women’s Suffrage Movement
Culture, Society
& Politics
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 3 (Moving Towards Modern Georgia)
 SS8H8—Georgia After WWI
 Political Poster of Eugene Talmadge as 1926 Democratic
candidate for Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture.
 Eugene Talmadge for Governor. Political handbill
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 2 includes historical background and suggested activities for the post-WWI Georgia and
the primary sources included in the set.
Featured Historical Figures

Johnny Mercer
Historical Markers
Bobby Jones and the Beginning of the Grand Slam ◊ RaymondRichardson Aviation School ◊ Johnny Mercer ◊ Margaret Mitchell
Today in Georgia History
September 17, 1994 “Ma” Rainey ◊ September 11, 1894 Helen Douglas
Mankin ◊ November 8, 1900 Margaret Mitchell ◊ September 13, 1922
Viola Ross Napier and Bessie Kempton Crowell ◊ September 28, 1892
John Donald Wade ◊ October 11, 1927 Lindbergh Day ◊ December 17,
1903 Erskine Caldwell ◊ December 25, 1929 Fox Theatre Opens ◊ August 13, 1921 Georgia Women Gain Vote ◊ January 10, 1933 Eugene
Talmadge ◊ December 15, 1939 Gone with the Wind Premiere ◊ February 29, 1940 Gone with the Wind Wins 8 Oscars ◊ February 20, 1888
Ben Epps ◊ January 8, 1911 Butterfly McQueen ◊ November 18, 1909
Johnny Mercer ◊ September 27, 1930 Bobby Jones ◊ March 22, 1943
First Masters Tournament Begins ◊ September 3, 1888 Thomas Milton
Rivers ◊ January 23, 1993 Thomas A. Dorsey ◊ January 31, 1944 Thomas Hardwick ◊ March 25, 1940 Crypt of Civilization ◊ March 24, 1939
Georgia Demands Return of the General ◊ August 19, 1921 Ty Cobb
Gets 3000th Hit ◊ February 26, 1926 Tiger Flowers ◊ June 26, 1918
Prohibition—Georgia Ratifies 18th Amendment ◊ December 21, 1911
Josh Gibson ◊ May 30, 1910 Ralph Metcalfe ◊ August 26, 1903 Caroline
Miller
Table of Contents
GHS Collections
◊ The Foltz Photography Studio photographs, MS 1360 includes photographs depicting life in the 1930s & 1940s. ◊ Stage prop used in the
filming of ”Gone With the Wind.” A-1361-358 ◊ Crowed lined up for
tickets for "Gone with the Wind" at Lucas Theater, MS 1360 ◊
Photograph of Eugene Talmadge, MS 1360 ◊ Photograph of Eugene
Talmadge at rally, MS 1360PH
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Viola Ross Napier (1881-1962) ◊ Helen Douglas Mankin (1894-1956) ◊
Charles Lindbergh in Georgia ◊ Howard Coffin (1837-1937) ◊ Progressive Era ◊ Woman Suffrage ◊ Ina Dillard Russell (1868-1953) ◊ Erskine
Caldwell (1903-1987) ◊ John Donald Wade (1892-1963) ◊ Gone With
the Wind(Novel) ◊ Gone with the Wind (Film) ◊ Margaret Mitchell
(1900-1949) ◊ Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946) ◊ Ben Epps (1888-1937)
◊ Fox Theatre ◊ Johnny Mercer (1909-1976) ◊ Bobby Jones (1902-1971)
Suggested Search Terms
Jazz; Eugene Talmadge; Progressive Era; Women’s Suffrage; Gone with
the Wind; Margaret Mithcell
Global Conflict
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Twentieth Century)
 Global Conflict
 World War I
World War One
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 16: World War I and the 1920s
 WWI related items from the Frank O’Driscoll Hunter Papers,
1917-1982
Featured Historical Figures
 Juliette Gordon Low (WWI and the Girl Scouts)
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 2 (Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New
South)
 SS8H7—Political, social, and economic changes in Georgia between 1877-1918
 Newspaper coverage of Otranto shipwreck
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 2 includes historical background and suggested resources for studying WWI in Georgia.
Table of Contents
Historical Markers
Walter Bernard Hill Hall ◊ Forsyth Park ◊ The Georgia Hussars Organized 13 February 1736
Today in Georgia History
April 17, 1917 World War I in Georgia
GHS Collections
◊ War Camp Community Service Club Papers, MS 0835 ◊ A keyword
search for World War, 1914-1918 on the GHS Image Catalog results in
50 objects related to World War I ranging from medals to uniforms. ◊
Frederick William Mingledorff, Jr. family Papers, MS 1991 ◊ George
Lawrence Armitage Letters and Photograph, MS 2188
New Georgia Encyclopedia
World War I in Georgia ◊ Woodrow Wilson ◊ Fort McPherson
Suggested Search Terms
World War I; World War, 1914-1918; Otranto
Global Conflict
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Twentieth Century)
 Global Conflict
 World War II
World War Two
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 18: America and Georgia in World War II
 USO Club, St. Mary’s Catholic School Dance from the Foltz
Photography Studio photographs
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 3 (Moving Towards Modern Georgia)
 SS8H9—Impact of WWII on Georgia
 “Georgia Schools at War, 1944.” Booklet
 Lamar Q. Bell Photograph Collection
 Photograph McEvoy Shipyard
 Photograph for Union Bag & Paper Company
 Photograph of USO Club St. Mary’s Catholic School
Dance
 Letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to William
Dodd, Ambassador to Germany, December 2, 1935.
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 3 includes historical background and suggested activities for the WWII in Georgia.
Table of Contents
Historical Markers
Raymond-Richardson Aviation School ◊ S.S. Oklahoma and Esso Baton
Rouge ◊ United States Navy Pre-Flight School ◊ Finney General Hospital ◊ The Georgia Hussars Organized 13 February 1736 ◊ S.S. James
Oglethorpe and the Battle of the Atlantic
Today in Georgia History
December 31, 1946 World War II in Georgia ◊ March 04, 1944 Eighth
Air Force Bombs Berlin ◊ April 08, 1942 World War II: U-Boat Attaks ◊
November 2, 1897 Richard B. Russell ◊ July 16, 1963 Carl Vinson ◊
April 29, 1950 Dobbins Air Force Base Dedicated ◊ March 30, 1942
Bell Bomber Plant
GHS Collections
◊ GHS collection of World War II Papers & Other Materials, MS 1548 ◊
Lois Dozier Norvell Papers, MS 1690 ◊ A keyword search on the GHS
Image Catalot for world war, 1939-1945 results in 60 objects.
◊Frederick William Mingledorff, Jr. family Papers, MS 1991 ◊ Harold J.
Hart Papers, MS 1840
New Georgia Encyclopedia
World War II in Georgia ◊ U-boat Attacks during World War II ◊ Carl
Vinson (1883-1981) ◊ Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897-1971) ◊ Union Camp
◊ Lucius D. Clay (1897-1978) ◊ Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum ◊ Fort
Gordon ◊ Fort Stewart ◊ Fort Benning ◊ Dobbins Air Reserve Base ◊
Robins Air Force Base ◊ Naval Air Station Atlanta
Suggested Search Terms
World War II; World War, 1939-1945
Modern Georgia
Online Exhibits
Modern Civil Rights
Movement
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Twentieth Century)
 Social Movements
 Civil Rights Movement
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 20: The Civil Rights Era
 Correspondence from the A. Pratt Adams, Jr. Collection, MS
2165
Featured Historical Figures
 Jackie Robinson
Table of Contents
Modern Georgia
Modern Civil
Rights Movement
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 4 (Growing Pains, 1945-1970)
 SS8H11—Role of Georgia in the modern Civil Rights Movement
 Issues of the Red and Black during integration of UGA
 Selection of items from the A. Pratt Adams, Jr. Collection
 Selected items from the Ethel Hyer Family Papers
 Video clips from WSB-TV
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 4 includes historical background and suggested resources for studying the Modern Civil
Rights Movement in Georgia.
Lecture Series Learning Packets

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama
Historical Markers
Moores Ford Lynching ◊ Savannah High School ◊ Koinonia Farm ◊ Lt.
Col. Lemuel Penn ◊ Dr. Thomas H. Brewer ◊ Dorchester Academy Boys
Dormitory ◊ Thankful Baptist Church ◊ Civil Rights Trail
Today in Georgia History
February 4, 2005 Ossie Davis ◊ January 13, 1982 Hank Aaron ◊ June
13, 1977 James Earl Ray ◊ October 16, 1973 Maynard Jackson Elected ◊
November 07, 1972 Andrew Young ◊ February 03, 1969 Ralph McGill ◊
April 04, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. ◊ October 14, 1964 MLK Wins
the Nobel Prize ◊ July 02, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 ◊ August 28,
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.’s ’I have a Dream’ Speech ◊ November 25,
1961 Albany Movement ◊ August 23, 1961 Desegregation in Atlanta ◊
January 09, 1961 Desegregation of UGA ◊ October 12, 1958 Temple
Bombing ◊ September 05, 1956 Heart of Atlanta Motel ◊ February 06,
1956 Massive Resistance ◊ February 05, 1945 Poll Tax Abolished ◊ July
08, 1944 Hamilton Holmes ◊ February 21, 1940 John Lewis ◊ January
14, 1940 Julian Bond ◊ April 27, 1927 Coretta Scott King ◊ October
06, 1921 Joseph Lowery ◊ September 30, 1915 Lester Maddox ◊ March
15, 1911 Ivan Allen, Jr. ◊ December 12, 1897 Lillian Smith ◊ November
16, 1894 Thomas ◊ January 11, 1955 Marvin Griffin ◊ July 3, 1918 Ernest Vandiver ◊ February 5, 1945 Poll Tax Abolished ◊ August 31, 1992
Charles Weltner ◊ December 27, 1956 Jackie Robinson ◊ July 29, 1912
Clarence Jordon Born
Table of Contents
GHS Collections
◊ Ethel Hyer Family Papers, MS 2117 ◊ W.W.(Westley Wallace) Law
Speech and Transcriptions, MS 1670 ◊ Joseph L. Bernd collection of
Federal Bureau of Investigation records on the 1946 Georgia Election,
MS 5920 ◊A. Pratt Adams, Jr. Papers, MS 2165
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Atlanta Sit-ins ◊ Freedom Rides ◊ Universal Negro Improvement Association ◊ Freedom Singers ◊ Voter Education Project ◊ National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ◊
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) ◊ Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) ◊ C.B. King (19231988) ◊ Hamilton Holmes (1941-1995) ◊ Jesse Hill (1927-2012) ◊
Donald Hollowell (1917-2004) ◊ Vernon Jordan (b. 1935) ◊ Coretta
Scott King (1927-2006) ◊ Earl T. Shinhoster (1950-2000) ◊ Hosea
Williams (1926-2000) ◊ William Bootle (1902-2005) ◊ Ralph
Abernathy (1926-1990) ◊ Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996) ◊ A.T.
Walden (1885-1965) ◊ Thomas Brewer (1894-1956) ◊ William G.
Anderson (b. 1927) ◊ Claude Sitton (b. 1925) ◊ Jean Childs Young
(1933-1994) ◊ Frances Pauley (1905-2003) ◊ Julian Bond (b. 1940) ◊
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) ◊ William Holmes Borders (19051993) ◊ Dorthy Rogers Tilly (1883-1970) ◊ Mary Frances Early
(b.1936) ◊ Bernice Johnson Reagon (b. 1942) ◊ Slater King (19271969) ◊ W.W. Law (1923-2002) ◊ Preston King (b. 1936) ◊ Joseph
Lowery (b. 1924) ◊ Charles Weltner (1927-1992) ◊ Roy v. Harris (1895
-1985) ◊ Leroy Johnson (b. 1928) ◊ Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011) ◊
Horace T. Ward (b. 1927) ◊ First African Baptist Church ◊ King
Center ◊ Student Movement of the 1960s ◊ Lemuel Penn Marker ◊
Albany Movement ◊ King Papers ◊ Civil Rights Movement ◊ Ministers’
Manifesto ◊ Segregation ◊ Americus Movement◊ Desegregation of
Higher Education ◊ Bus Desegregation in Atlanta ◊ Angelo Herndon
Case ◊ Martin Luther King Jr. Streets in Georgia ◊ Communists ◊
Columbians
Suggested Search Terms
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--History--20th century;
Civil rights--United States; African Americans--Civil rights--History-20th century; National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People; Albany Movement; Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee; Atlanta Student Movement; Civil rights--Georgia-Savannah.
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Modern Georgia
Online Exhibits
Three Centuries of Georgia History (Twentieth Century)
 Global Conflict
 Korean War
 Technological Advances
 Nuclear Ship Savannah
Post-World war
Two Georgia
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 19: Changes in Georgia and America
 Letter from Corporal Harold Cheves, Korea, to Mrs. Gladys
Cheves (mother), Savannah, October 8, 1953
Opening America’s Archives
Primary Sources Set 4 (Growing Pains, 1945-1970)
 SS8H11—Post-WWII developments of Georgia from 1945 to
1970
 Collection of photographs used for the second “Forward
Atlanta” campaign
 “Agriculture in Georgia” pamphlet
 “Know Georgia’s Products: Key to a New Economy”
booklet
 Video clips from WSB-TV
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 4 includes historical background and suggested resources for studying post-WWII in
Georgia.
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Historical Markers
Gravesite of Lt. (jg) Thomas E. Zellars ◊ Nuclear Ship Savannah
Today in Georgia History
September 07, 1923 Louise Suggs ◊ September 9, 1941 Otis Redding ◊
October 24, 1962 James Brown ◊ October 26, 1971 Muhammad Ali ◊
December 5, 1932 Little Richard ◊ September 23, 1930 Ray Charles ◊
October 17, 1932 Paul Anderson ◊ September 14, 1917 Byron Herbert
Reece ◊ January 13, 1982 Hank Aaron ◊ December 7, 1946 Winecoff Hotel Fire ◊ January 5, 2009 Griffin Bell ◊ April 15, 1964 Atlanta Fulton
County Stadium ◊ May 15, 1925 Carl Sanders ◊ June 03, 1962 Orly Airport Crash ◊ March 20, 1907 Ellis Arnall ◊ March 15, 1911 Ivan Allen, Jr.
◊ December 20, 1994 Dean Rusk ◊ May 23, 1914 Celestine Sibley ◊
March 1, 1890 William B. Hartsfield ◊ May 27, 1991 Ed Dodd ◊ November 29, 1991 Frank Yerby ◊ June 16, 1967 Six Flags Over Georgia Opens ◊
August 18, 1965 Beatles Play Atlanta ◊ May 04, 1965 Rolling Stones Play
at Statesboro ◊ September 12, 1964 Stone Mountain Carving ◊ July 31,
1960 Atlanta Motor Speedway ◊ February 13, 1956 Georgia Flag Change
◊ March 07, 1951 Ezzard Charles ◊ March 08, 1949 Television Broadcasting in Georgia ◊ July 01, 1946 Centers for Disease Control ◊ August
29, 1945 Wyomia Tyus ◊ December 11, 1944 Brenda Lee ◊ May 28, 1944
Gladys Knight ◊ February 28, 1940 Joe South ◊ March 9, 1937 Dave
Prater ◊ February 17, 1936 Jim Brown ◊ February 27, 1930 Joanne
Woodward ◊ May 18, 1928 Pernell Roberts ◊ April 10, 1926 Junior Samples ◊ March 26, 1925 James Moody ◊ December 14, 1920 Charley
Trippi ◊ October 10, 1920 Frank Sinkwich ◊ February 19, 1917 Carson
McCullers ◊ August 25, 1913 Walt Kelly ◊ November 11, 1908 Bobby
Dodd ◊ February 7, 1905 Wally Butts
GHS Collections
Griffin B. Bell Papers, MS 2305
New Georgia Encyclopedia Orly Air Crash of 1962 ◊ Louise Suggs (b. 1923) ◊ Otis Redding (19411967) ◊ James Brown (ca. 1933-2006) ◊ “Little Richard” Penniman (b.
1932) ◊ Ray Charles (1930-2004) ◊ Paul Anderson (1932-1994) ◊
Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958) ◊ Hank Aaron (b. 1934) ◊ Griffin Bell
(1918-2009) ◊ Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium ◊ Ellis Arnall (19071992) ◊ Three Governors Controversy ◊ Dean Rusk (1909-1994) ◊ Celestine Sibley (1914-1999) ◊ Ivan Allen Jr. (1911-2003) ◊ William B.
Hartsfield
Suggested Search Terms
Ellis Arnall; Ivan Allen Jr.; Georgia—History—20th century; William
Hartsfield; Atlanta—History—20th century; Agriculture—Georgia—History
Modern Georgia
Chapter by Chapter Primary Sources
Chapter 23: Georgia Today and Tomorrow
 Objects and documents related to the 1996 Olympic events held
in Savannah, Georgia.
Opening America’s Archives
Georgia since 1970
Primary Sources Set 5 (Social, economic, and political developments in Georgia since 1970)
 SS8H12—Role of Georgia in the modern Civil Rights Movement
 Photographs of Jimmy Carter doing humanitarian work
 President Jimmy Carter’s Annotated Statement on the
Failed Rescue Mission Regarding the Hostages in
Iran, Selected items from the Ethel Hyer Family Papers
 Photographs of Techwoods Homes demolished for 1996
Olympics
 Centennial Olympic Park renderings
 Newspaper article on 8th grade involvement in Olympic
preparations
 Teacher Guide to Primary Source Set 5 includes historical background and suggested resources for studying Georgia since
1970.
Lecture Series Learning Packets

An Evening with Leah Ward Sears
Historical Markers
Olympic Games in Athens ◊ UGA Historic Athletic Grounds
Today in Georgia History
August 03, 2008 Skip Caray ◊ May 19, 2007 Steve Bartowski ◊ March 02,
2005 Leah Ward Sears ◊ June 10, 2004 Georgia on My Mind ◊ April 03,
2004 Dominique Wilkins ◊ May 06, 2003 Carl Isaacs Executed ◊ November 05, 2002 Sonny Perdue ◊ July 18, 2000 Paul Coverdell ◊ April 24,
1999 Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ◊ January 25, 1999 Robert Shaw ◊ November 06, 1998 Newt Gingrich ◊ June 25, 1997 Atlanta Thrashers ◊ July
19, 1996 Atlanta Olympics Begin ◊ October 28, 1995 Braves Win the
World Series ◊ April 07, 1995 Georgia Peach: Official State Fruit ◊ June
29, 1993 Georgia Lottery Began ◊ November 03, 1992 Cynthia McKinney
◊ June 17, 1992 Grace Towns Hamilton ◊ October 15, 1991 Clarence
Thomas Confirmation ◊ April 11, 1990 Vidalia Onion: Georgia’s Official
Veggie ◊ July 23, 1988 John Smoltz ◊ July 20, 1988 Democratic National
Convention ◊ November 28, 1987 R.E.M.
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Today in Georgia History
Continued
GHS Collections
◊ July 10, 1985 New Cole & Coca-Cola Classic ◊ February 16, 1985 Phil
Niekro ◊ April 18, 1983 Cheryl Haworth ◊ December 04, 1982 Herschel
Walker ◊ June 21, 1981 Atlanta Child Murders ◊ May 02, 1981 Murder in
Savannah Inspires Bestselling Book ◊ June 01, 1980 CNN Debut ◊ November 04, 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis ◊ August 30, 1979 Jimmy Carter
Rabbit Episode ◊ June 22, 1979 First Home Depot Opened ◊ April 19,
1979 Azaleas and Callaway Gardens ◊ April 5, 1977 Wyche Fowler ◊ July
14, 1976 Jimmy Carter Presidential Nomination ◊ October 23, 1972
Cumberland Island ◊ July 25, 1972 Atlanta Hosts Baseball’s All-Star
Game ◊ October 29, 1971 Duane Allman ◊ May 31, 1971 Jimmy Carter on
Cover of Time Magazine ◊ July 04, 1970 Peachtree Road Race ◊ July 05,
1969 Atlanta Pop Festival ◊ August 09, 1967 Deion Sanders ◊ April 14,
1966 Greg Maddux ◊ July 24, 1962 Kevin Butler ◊ March 11, 1948 Roy
Barnes ◊ October 20, 1946 Lewis Grizzard ◊ August 24, 1942 Max Cleland ◊ March 21, 1941 Bobby Cox ◊ January 24, 1939 Ray Stevens ◊ November 19, 1938 Ted Turner ◊ March 29, 1937 Billy Carter ◊ February 11,
1936 Burt Reynolds ◊ June 07, 1935 Harry Crews ◊ September 04, 1932
Vince Dooley ◊ July 17, 1924 Olive Ann Burns ◊ October 01, 1924 Jimmy Carter ◊ March 10, 1924 Tom Murphy ◊ March 14, 1921 Truett Cathy
◊ January 20, 1920 DeForest Kelley
◊ Leah Ward Sears, MS 2427 ◊ Vince Dooley Papers, MS 2363 ◊ John P.
Rousakis Papers , MS 1678 ◊ Savannah Olympic Support Council Records, MS 1856 ◊ Bull Street Improvement Project Records, MS 1719
New Georgia Encyclopedia Latino Immigration ◊ Boundaries of Georgia ◊ Civil War Reenacting ◊
Carter Family ◊ Cornelia Bailey (b. 1945) ◊ Millard Fuller ◊ Rosalynn
Carter ◊ Carter Center ◊ Olympic Games in 1996 ◊ County Unit System ◊
Third Parties ◊ Grace Towns Hamilton (1907-1992)
Suggested Search Terms
Georgia—History—20th century; Carter, Jimmy,--1924; Presidential
elections--1970-1980; Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.);
Southern States Emigration and immigration; County Unit System —
Georgia
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