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1821-1894
The Civil War (1861-65) governor of Georgia, Joseph E. Brown was one of the most successf...
1895-1967E. D. ("Ed") Rivers served consecutive two-year terms as Georgia's governor (elected in 1...
1890-1981
Ellis Merton Coulter, a University of Georgia professor and historian of the South, helpe...
1865-1929Designs by minister-architect Charles E. Choate have been documented in more than two doz...
1850-1900
The minister and missionary E. K. Love was a prominent Baptist leader and writer in ninet...
1926-2012Kenneth E. Moss was born in 1926. He passed away in 2012.
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R.E.M., one of the most celebrated rock bands in America, had its roots deep in the red G...
1856-1922
The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing...
1900-1986On the morning of July 4, 1944, Primus E. King, an African American duly registered to vo...
1906-1970
Mary E. Hutchinson practiced as a professional artist in New York and Atlanta d...
1903-1980Melvin E. Thompson, the first person elected to the office of lieutenant governor of Georg...
1846-1929Nathaniel E. Harris was a state legislator and reform-minded governor whose improvements...
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African American educator, historian,...
The Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., is a nonprofit Georgia corporation organized in 1970 b...
The state of Georgia, like most other governments, operates under a financial plan called...
Clark Atlanta University (CAU), located southwest of downtown Atlanta, is a private, urban...
One of the most famous music clubs in Georgia, if not the United States, the 40 Watt Club...
From 1943 until 2009 Naval Air Station Atlanta (NAS) trained flight personnel from through...
Though some progress has been made in recent decades, Georgia still ranks among those stat...
The Callaway Foundation Inc. is a private foundation that supports the charitable, religi...
Dating to the Mississippian Period (A.D. 800-1600), the Singer-Moye site, located in sout...
1945-2015Gus Whalen was the fourth-generation president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wa...
The Kolomoki Mounds site is one of the largest prehistoric mound complexes in Georgia. At...
LaGrange, the seat of Troup County, is located approximately sixty miles southwest of Atl...
Public-opinion polling is the practice of gathering opinions and attitudes from individual...
1864-1902
Eliza Ann Grier was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the...
Confederate memorials honor those who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War (18...
The William I. H. and Lula E. Pitts Foundation is an independent private foundation that u...
1832-1904
One of Georgia's most renowned political and military figures of the nineteenth cent...
Complex hunter-gatherer societies became increasingly common in the Southeast during the L...
1863-1962Helen Dortch Longstreet, the second wife of General James Longstreet, is remembered for he...
Selected for the 1986 edition of "The 100 Best Small Towns in America" and again in 1995,...
1836-1909Contemporary historian Charles Reagan Wilson aptly calls J. William Jones "the evangelist...
Shaw Industries, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, is the largest manufacturer of carpe...
Piedmont University, a private liberal arts institution, was founded in 1897 to serve res...
1894-1956Thomas Brewer, an African American physician, spearheaded the drive for racial equality in...
1903-1995Walter J. Brown was a journalist and a pioneer broadcaster. After managing his own news bu...
Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of governo...
1890-1982Philip Trammell Shutze's career as a designer emerged directly from the Atlanta architectu...
1812-1893Major Raphael Moses, who pioneered the commercial growing of peaches in Georgia, was chief...
1823-1882A presence in Georgia state politics for more than three decades, Benjamin Hill was by tur...
Broadcasting's most prestigious award, the George Foster Peabody Award, is given annually...
1824-1894Alfred H. Colquitt, an active secessionist and brigade commander in the Civil War (1861-65...
Savannah State University, a historically Black institution, is the oldest Black public u...
1862-1931Henry Rutherford Butler, a respected physician and pharmacist with offices on Auburn Avenu...
1833-1873
Lizzie Rutherford is credited as the originator of Confederate Memorial Day, which honors...
1854-1933The founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta for fifty years (1883-1...
1851-1932
Joseph M. Brown served as Georgia's governor for two terms, from 1909 to 1911 and from 19...
1850-1926Atlanta businessman Joel Hurt made a fortune in real estate, insurance, mining, and street...
1868-1936John Hope was an important African American educator and race leader of the early tw...
1821-1904
A veteran of the Mexican War (1846-48) and a Republican politician, James Longstreet was...
Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild, and PascalFABRAP, formed in 1958, was one of Atlanta's most progressive design firms. The firm built...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of May...
With native performers ranging from Johnny Mercer to Little Richard and musical styles ran...
1964-2009Athens singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt was at the forefront of the contemporary folk rock m...
ca. 1877-1966
Georgia Douglas Johnson was an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the literary a...
Atlanta-based EarthLink, an independent Internet service provider (ISP), traces its histo...
1907-1982Marvin Griffin served as governor of Georgia from 1955 to 1959. Griffin was one of the fi...
Between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, multiple ships belonging to the U...
Bleckley County, in central Georgia, was named for state chief justice Logan Bleckley. Th...
Adel, incorporated in 1889 and now the seat of Cook County, is located about thirty miles...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Jan...
1850-1889
Henry W. Grady, the "Spokesman of the New South," served as managing editor for the Atla...
1823-1862
Thomas R. R. Cobb was one of antebellum Georgia's foremost legal authorities and most out...
Lumpkin County was established by the state legislature in 1832 and named after Georgia g...
1907-1992Ellis Arnall's four years as governor of Georgia (1943-47) are considered to be among the...
1824-1884W. T. Wofford was a cavalry captain in the Mexican War (1846-48), a Georgia politician, a...
A massive five-sided edifice, Fort Pulaski was constructed in the 1830s and 1840s on Cocks...
1935-2012
Harry Crews was a prolific novelist whose often freakish characters populate a strange, v...
In mid-March 1865, as the Confederate States of America struggled through its final days,...
Banks County, in northeast Georgia, is the state's 129th county, comprising 233 square mi...
The impact of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil on Savannah has been greater than t...
As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civi...
Located in downtown Athens, the Morton Theatre was the first vaudeville theater in the Uni...
Georgia's secession from the Union followed nearly two decades of increasingly intense se...
The disability rights movement in Georgia is a civil and human rights movement that seeks...
The March to the Sea, the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during...
Desertion plagued Georgia regiments during the Civil War (1861-65) and, in addition to oth...
Over the years Georgians have made significant contributions to the creation and survival...
During the summer of 1946, Atlantans witnessed the rise of the Columbians, the nation's fi...
Robins Air Force Base is Georgia's largest industrial installation and is located in Warn...
On June 27, 1864, Kennesaw Mountain, located about twenty miles northwest of Atlanta in Co...
The Marine Corps Logistics Base is located in Dougherty County in southwest Georgia, appro...
1887-1970Georgian Charles Nabell was one of the first singers to record traditional Western folk so...
The Old Governor's Mansion is located in Milledgeville, the state's capital from 1807 to 1...
1811-1891James Johnson was appointed Georgia's first provisional governor following the conclusion...
The Candler School of Theology, part of Emory University in Atlanta, is one of thirteen s...
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the largest Black Pentecostal denomination in the...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Aug...
Located in DeKalb County about ten miles northeast of downtown Atlanta, Stone Mountain is...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Jul...
1855-1931
Hoke Smith, a trial attorney and publisher of the Atlanta Journal, was most influential...
In July 2010 Griffin Technical College and Flint River Technical College consolidated ope...
SCAD
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private, nonprofit art institution loc...
1814-1881Alfred Austell was a merchant, banker, financier, and railroad builder who organized the A...
On April 19, 1989, Governor Joe Frank Harris signed a bill authorizing the creation of the...
The hard-working, down-to-earth jam band Widespread Panic came out of the Athens music sce...
In early May 1865 the Confederate States of America was greatly disorganized, large...
b. 1955Anthony "Tony" M. Grooms is a writer and arts administrator who is well known in the Atlan...
Established in 1808, Pulaski County is situated in central Georgia and comprises 247 squa...
Lanier County, in southern Georgia, is the state's 157th county. Named for the Georgia po...
Rockdale County in north central Georgia was created from parts of Henry and Newton count...
Georgiaites, found in the soil of Georgia's Coastal Plain, are rare natural glasses produ...
1881-1962Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia's House of Representatives in 1922, only two year...
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship was formed in Atlanta in 1991 in response to the growi...
1814-1888
Patrick Hues Mell was one of the most influential educators and ministers in nineteenth-c...
Cherokee County, in northwest Georgia, was formed from Cherokee Indian Territory in Decem...
The Southern Labor Archives is committed to "collecting, preserving and making available...
b. 1948Roy Barnes was sworn in as the eightieth governor of Georgia on January 11, 1999, and serv...
Cordele is located in the heart of Georgia, 60 miles south of Macon and 100 miles north o...
Athens, home of the University of Georgia (UGA), is located along the north Oconee River...
Whitfield County is located in northwest Georgia at the southern end of the Appalachian M...
1885-1970
Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century South who...
Calhoun, earlier called Oothcaloga Depot and Dawsonville, lies in the valley that was the...
The Georgia Mountain Fair is held every summer in Hiawassee, the seat of Towns County. At...
1810-1891
Northern merchant and entrepreneur Nelson Tift founded Albany in October 1836. Born in 18...
Located in west central Georgia, about seventy-five miles southwest of Atlanta and forty...
The Georgia Historical Commission was the earliest statewide force for historic preservati...
1829-1911
A brigadier general in the Confederate army, Alfred Iverson Jr. captured the highest-rank...
1861-1943Charlie Tillman, who called Atlanta home for most of his career, was a pioneer composer, p...
The existence of caches of hidden or lost Confederate gold has been the source of numerou...
Established in Marietta and opened to students in July 1851, the Georgia Military Institu...
1820-1900During the first half of the nineteenth century artists fanned out across the northeaster...
The largest labor organization in late-nineteenth-century America, the Order of the Knigh...
"Like a story-book romance reads the history of the colorful tufted textile industry." So...
1803-1871Eugenius A. Nisbet served in the Georgia legislature, in the U.S. Congress, and as one of...
UPSUnited Parcel Service (UPS), based in Atlanta since 1991, was established in Seattle, Was...
From small, idiosyncratic drawings to elaborate outdoor environments, Georgia's self-taug...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Mar...
Set in modern-day Georgia after a zombie apocalypse,The Walking Dead is a comic book and t...
Between 1844 and 1969 the first three generations of the De Renne family of Savannah made...
RCRAThe federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was established in 1976 as an a...
Coffee County, located in Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain, was created from sections of Cli...
The Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy serves as the principal focus for t...
The Rural Electrification Act (REA) is a law that was passed by the U.S. Congress in May 1...
1834-1910
The last governor to be both a veteran of the Civil War (1861-65) and a Georgia native, A...
b. 1962The television personality, author, and director Alton Brown, who was raised in White Cou...
Thomson, the seat of McDuffie County, lies thirty miles west of Augusta along the east-we...
Georgia has a long tradition of grape growing and wine making based on the native mu...
1912-1989Albert B. Saye, professor of political science at the University of Georgia (UGA), was one...
1815-1873William J. Hardee's 1855 textbook, Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics, was required reading...
The Indigo Girls have sold more than 7 million albums worldwide, won one Grammy Award, an...
1916-1999
Kenneth Coleman, professor of history at the University of Georgia in Athens was the pree...
The "Atlanta campaign" is the name given by historians to the military operations that too...
The Chief Vann House, built between 1804 and 1806 by the Cherokee leader James Vann, is c...
1802-1881Hiram Warner was one of the original members of the Supreme Court of Georgia, eventually b...
Between September 24 and September 26, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of Black Atlantans,...
The Augusta Chronicle, which started as the weekly Augusta Gazette in 1785, is one of the...
1766-1832John Clark, a major general in the Georgia militia, state representative, and U.S. Indian...
The architectural firm of Stevens and Wilkinson, formed in 1947, is the successor firm of...
1843-1923Berry Benson became a living legend thanks to his exploits during the Civil War (1861-65)...
Eastman, the seat of Dodge County, is a rural town of 5,658 residents, according to the 2...
1904-1979Ben Fortson served as Georgia's secretary of state for thirty-three years, including...
The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies is a center for documen...
The company that began as Georgia Railroad Bank was a major financial institution in Augu...
Saint Joseph's Hospital is Atlanta's oldest hospital and the only Catholic hospital in the...
Georgia's State Art Collection comprises hundreds of art pieces collected over nearly thr...
1822-1898
Richard Malcolm Johnston was a lawyer, teacher, and dialect humorist from Hancock County....
Synovus Financial Corporation, based in Columbus, provides a diverse array of financial se...
1928-1983In his fifteen years as a legislator in the Georgia General Assembly, Sidney J. Marcus was...
1912-2006R. A. Miller, a resident of Rabbittown, an unincorporated community north of Gainesville,...
Since 1948 the Arthritis Foundation, based in Atlanta, has generated $244 million for medi...
Between 1961 and 1965 the state of Georgia took part in the commemoration of the 100th an...
The Sacred Harp is the best-known shape-note songbook used in Georgia. It was published i...
The presence of Union general William T. Sherman in Georgia during the Civil War&nbs...
1921-2012
Donald "Bush" Bryan, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and decorated veteran of...
1845-1896Charles Crisp was a Confederate soldier and Georgia jurist before serving as a U.S. congr...
Burge and Stevens (later Stevens and Wilkinson) was the initial partnership of an architec...
In the context of southern politics, the term Redemption refers to the overthrow or defeat...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Apr...
As part of the University of Georgia's Year 2000 millennial celebration, the University L...
Located on the shores of Lake Chatuge, a reservoir in northeast Georgia, Hiawassee serve...
1890-1978For much of the twentieth century, Hattie Saussy was closely associated with the art comm...
On November 20, 1948, a mob of twenty armed white men shot and killed African American Ro...
Located sixty-five miles east of Columbus and sixty miles southwest of Macon in Macon Cou...
Gordon County is located in the Valley and Ridge section of northwest Georgia, along Inte...
The generative force behind Jean Toomer's great work Cane was Georgia.
Toomer grew up...
The Social Security Act (SSA) was signed into law by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt...
1918-2009Griffin Bell was the seventy-second attorney general of the United States and a major figu...
1885-1926For several generations Neel Reid was the best-known residential architect in Atlanta.
Hi...
1887-1981
Philip Weltner was an attorney and academic leader who spent nearly nine decades effectin...
The term Bourbon Triumvirate refers to Georgia's three most powerful and prominent politic...
1865-1953J. J. Brown was Georgia's eighth commissioner of agriculture.
A hardscrabble dirt farmer...
Warner Robins is located in the northern part of Houston County, about halfway between Ma...
1872-1944A state legislator, governor, and U.S. congressman, Thomas Hardwick served Georgia over a...
Shorter University is a private liberal arts institution in Rome, with satellite campuses...
Georgia novelist Philip Lee Williams's A Distant Flame (2004) is about the struggle of an...
Georgia's aircraft industry has played a vital role in the nation's defense and has been a...
Bibb County, in central Georgia, was formed December 9, 1822, one year after the Creek In...
Toombs County, in southeast Georgia, is the state's 144th county and comprises 367 square...
1923-2014Few athletes have dominated a sport as thoroughly as Alice Coachman dominated the high jum...
1877-1954Clifford Walker served as Georgia's sixty-first governor, from 1923 to 1927. Holding offic...
OverviewThe South, like the rest of the country, was forever altered by the dramatic events...
The legal profession has always ranked among the most important forces in Georgia's politi...
Crawford County, in west central Georgia, is Georgia's fifty-seventh county.
The 325-...
Monroe County, located in west central Georgia about fifty miles south of Atlanta and twe...
1863-1915
Adella Hunt Logan was an African American teacher, clubwoman, and suffragist known primar...
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer is the fourth-oldest newspaper in the state, behind the Augus...
1815-1887William Bacon Stevens's A History of Georgia, published in 1847 (volume 1) and 1859 (volum...
Georgia has played an influential role in the development of the "Freedom Writ" of habeas...
1805-1883Charles Jones Jenkins, most noted for his defiance of military authority while governor of...
1871-1948Georgia governor Hugh M. Dorsey brought both youth and progressive ideas to the office in...
Georgia's civilian population felt the economic effects of the Civil War (1861-65) nearly...
The office of lieutenant governor was created by the 1945 Georgia Constitution. The...
1873-1937A successful pioneer in the automobile industry, Howard Coffin rebuilt an abandoned antebe...
1835-1913
Despite William Northen's success and influence as an educator, agricultural reformer, st...
Washington County in east central Georgia was established on February 25, 1784. Georgia's...
1917-2005
Ossie Davis, a native of south Georgia, was one of the most recognized and influential Af...
1927-2007Edward J. Cashin was one of the preeminent historians of colonial- and Revolutionary-era G...
There are more than 520 cities and towns in Georgia. Each possesses a charter of municipal...
Chickamauga, in Walker County, is historically significant for its importance to the Cher...
In July 2009 Coosa Valley Technical College and Northwestern Technical College consolidat...
The League of Women Voters of Georgia, headquartered in Atlanta, describes itself as a "no...
Hancock County lies between the Oconee and Ogeechee rivers, in east central Georgia. It w...
In 1966 the General Assembly chose Georgia's chief executive. Although former governor Ell...
During the antebellum period, Georgia and the rest of the South relied heavily on enslave...
1826-1872Ambrose Wright was a leading political figure in the mid-nineteenth century who distinguis...
Griswoldville, an industrial village on the Central of Georgia Railway in Jones County, p...
1816-1861
The first high-ranking Georgian to be killed in the Civil War (1861-65), Francis S. Barto...
1831-1893
Charles C. Jones Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. Also a...
McDuffie County is located on the geological fall line in east central Georgia along the...
The Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon served for fifteen years as the state's official m...
In July 1964 Athens-area Ku Klux Klan members shot and killed Lemuel Penn, an African Ame...
More than 3,500 Black Georgians served in the Union army and navy between 1862 and 1865....
Between 1805 and 1833, the state of Georgia conducted eight land lotteries (one each in 1...
1921-2020Joseph Lowery was a distinguished civil rights leader and respected Methodist minister who...
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, the scholarly journal of the Georgia Historical Society,...
1808-1878John D. Gray was the first major railroad contractor in the South. As John D. Gray and Com...
Bibb Manufacturing Company, an important part of Georgia's cotton and textile industry for...
OverviewAcross Georgia, the period from 1895 to 1920 was an era of expansion and growth. In Atlan...
Overview
One of Georgia's great riches is its heritage of folk art, but different meanings for tha...
The Battle of Pickett's Mill was among the more decisive encounters of the Atlanta campaig...
The Savannah Tribune, a weekly newspaper covering news and issues related to Savannah's A...
The boll weevil greatly affected Georgia's long history of cotton production between 1915,...
The C-141 Starlifter, built by Lockheed-Georgia (later Lockheed Martin) of Marietta, was t...
Since the late nineteenth century, the tradition of gathering together at singing conventi...
The twentieth-century effort to mobilize Black Georgians in the political process began d...
Fort Moore, home of the U.S. Army Infantry, is adjacent to the city of Columbus in southw...
Warren County, comprising 286 square miles, was created in 1793 in the east central part...
The architectural firm Ivey and Crook (1923-67) excelled in traditional architecture durin...
Almost a third of the Atlantic Coast's tidal salt marshes are located in Georgia's Lower...
Crisp County, in south Georgia, is Georgia's 138th county.
The 274-square-mile county...
b. 1955Leah Ward Sears served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 2005 unti...
South Georgia Technical College is located in Americus, the seat of Sumter County, in sou...
1812-1883Most famous for serving as the vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War (186...
1863-1947 W. C. Bradley was an entrepreneur, financier, and businessman whose career coincided with...
Located in northwest Georgia, forty-four miles north of Atlanta and seventy-nine miles so...
A pioneer of nineteenth-century photography, George N. Barnard is best known for his work...
Georgia's diverse geography, moderate climate, transportation infrastructure, modern amen...
OverviewProgressive architecture in Georgia between the late 1920s and the late 1950s developed in...
1883-1981Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecut...
Valdosta, the seat of Lowndes County, is situated in south Georgia twenty miles from the...
Overview
In many ways Georgia's history is integrally linked to that of the rest of the South and...
1812-1891
A Georgia Unionist who opposed secession and the state’s role in the Confederacy, Joshu...
1924-2022
Shaped by her early years in Georgia, Helen M. Lewis made her mark after leaving the stat...
Georgia was one of the first southern states to build a penitentiary to confine criminals....
On September 18, 1895, the African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington deliv...
Citizens Trust Bank is among the largest Black-owned financial institutions in the countr...
1824-1887William Burnham Woods, an Ohio native, was a Georgia resident at the time of his appointme...
b. 1963A versatile performer from suburban Atlanta, Travis Tritt has secured major industry award...
1902-1992A. Thomas Bradbury's credentials as both architect and lawyer influenced the professional...
1885-1972Jesse O. Thomas, a protégé of African American educator Booker T. Washington, establishe...
Rosa Lee Ingram was an African American woman whose 1948 murder conviction, along with the...
The First African Baptist Church in Savannah is one of the oldest African American Baptist...
During World War II (1941-45) the Bell Aircraft Corporation (known as Bell Bomber) transfo...
The Civil War (1861-65) home front in Georgia, far from reflecting unity in a common cause...
In July 2010 East Central Technical College and Valdosta Technical College consolidated o...
A form of representative government has existed in Georgia since January 1751. Its modern...
In 1907 Georgia became the first state in the South to pass a statewide ban on the product...
Paine College, a historically Black college in Augusta, is a private, coeducational, liber...
1918-2013Cecil Alexander was a prominent Atlanta architect and civic leader. As a partner in...
1751-ca. 1840
Naturalist and artist John Abbot advanced the knowledge of the flora and fauna of the Sou...
1913-2002Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia for a brief time i...
OverviewArchitecture in Georgia during the last four decades of the twentieth century evidenced a...
Near the end of the Civil War (1861-65), women from Columbus began to care for soldiers' g...
1910-1972
In the second wave of southern industrialization, from the 1940s to the 1970s, James V. C...
Georgia Humanities is an independent nonprofit organization and one of the fifty-six organ...
1927-2016
In 1950 Horace T. Ward became the first African American to challenge the racially discri...
1923-2002
W. W. Law was a crusader for justice and the civil rights of African Americans. He served...
Anchoring the west end of the Sweet Auburn historic district, the Auburn Avenue Research...
Incorporated in 1910 by the Georgia lawyer, author, and statesman Thomas E. Watson, the Je...
TVSThe firm of Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback, and Associates (TVS) first came into prominenc...
Georgia Southern University, a member institution of the University System of Georgia, in...
1857-1916Joseph Rucker Lamar, an influential member of the Georgia legal community at the end of th...
The Catholic Church in Georgia is both one of the earliest and one of the fastest-growing...
One of the distinguishing features of southern culture is an "oratorical aesthetic."...
The oldest of Georgia's tidewater estates, Wormsloe has remained in the hands of the same...
ca. 1901-1948
J. Richardson Jones was an actor, a cinematographer, and a journalist for the Atlanta Dai...
1927-2021
George T. Heery was a prominent figure among a family of Georgia architects. Heery's fath...
The Color Purple is the international best-selling novel by Alice Walker, an African Ameri...
On June 29, 1822, the first general association of Georgia's various Baptist communities...
1811-1889
John Archibald Campbell, one of the most respected attorneys in the United States during...
Georgia is home to more than 4,000 species of native or naturalized vascular plants and ve...
Fought on May 14-15, 1864, the Battle of Resaca was the first major engagement of the Atl...
Note from the Editors: In January 2013 Gainesville State College merged with North Georgia...
1927-1969Civil rights activist Slater King was a successful realestate broker who focused his entre...
1924-2000
When Edgar Bowers published his Collected Poems in 1997, literary critic Harold Bloom cal...
Spelman College, the nation's oldest historically Black college for women, has provided w...
Dalton, the carpet capital of the world, is located eighty miles north of Atlanta and thi...
Union County, located in northeast Georgia at the southern tip of the Blue Ridge Mountain...
1878-1957Walter F. George was one of Georgia's longest-serving members of the U.S. Senate (1922-57...
ca. 1915-2001
The Reverend Howard Finster emerged from the rural Appalachian culture of northeast Alaba...
1868-1933The Reverend Henry Hugh Proctor was the first African American pastor of First Congregatio...
Founded in 1903, Albany State University is one of three historically Black colleges and...
A number of important historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Decem...
Georgia College and State University, Georgia's public liberal arts university, in Milledg...
Guerrilla warfare in Georgia during the Civil War (1861-65) often took place in sparsely...
Georgia's statewide system of tuition-free public schools dates from the late nineteenth...
Electric cooperatives (co-ops), also known as electric membership corporations (EMCs) or r...
The stock market crash in the waning days of October 1929 heralded the beginning of the wo...
MARTAThe Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, known as MARTA, provides bus and rapid r...
Every government must have money to operate, and state governments are no exception. If th...
Eugenic ideology, which aims to increase the occurrence of desired heritable characteristi...
b. 1966Natasha Trethewey served as poet laureate of the United States from 2012 to 2014. Her...
1937-2020
An artist accomplished in several media, Atlanta native Emma Amos explored difficult issu...
The Atlanta Daily World, the oldest African American newspaper in Atlanta, has provided c...
Jekyll Island is located in Glynn County, just southeast of the city of Brunswick, south o...
In 1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party. Led by the brill...
Note from the Editors: In January 2013 Augusta State University merged with Georgia Health...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Sep...
1835-1930
Rebecca Latimer Felton was one of the South's leading advocates for women's rights and al...
Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States, spent many of his forma...
Atlanta Home FrontAt the time of the Civil War (1861-65), Atlanta boasted a population of almost 10,000 (one...
1858-1927
An African American barber and entrepreneur, Alonzo Herndon was founder and president of...
1917-1958Byron Herbert Reece was the author of four books of poetry and two novels. During his shor...
Houses make up more than three-quarters of all the historic buildings in Georgia. They als...
A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of Feb...
The Dixie Highway, a network of roads connecting Canada to Florida in the early decades of...
Georgia history textbooks are used in the state's public school systems to educate eighth...
In February 1856 the Atlanta Gas Light Company was incorporated to provide gas lighting to...
The Progressive Era refers to a period of varied reforms that took place throughout the U...
During the Civil War (1861-65), women across the South took on new roles to support their...
1824-1897
One of early Atlanta's most prominent merchants, Sidney Root played several high-stakes r...
Numerous Georgia writers have won Pulitzer Prizes for their work in the various cat...
Overview
Georgia's agricultural industry plays a significant role in the state's economy, contribu...
Beginning in the 1890s, Georgia and other southern states passed a wide variety of Jim...
The Brumby family's fortunes have, for generations, been tied to Marietta. The family has...
The Gullah and Geechee culture on the Sea Islands of Georgia has retained ethnic tradition...
The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part...
OverviewIn 2002 there were approximately 1,200 foundations in Georgia with combined assets in exc...
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has had an unbroke...
The Callaway family has changed the face of Georgia by building and operating textile mill...
Georgia State University (GSU) is the largest school in the University System of Georgia....
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal a...
The canal era in the United States represented a major phase of the nineteenth-century eco...
Macon, the seat of Bibb County, is the retail, medical, financial, educational, and cultu...
Georgia was a leader in the textile industry during the nineteenth and twentieth centurie...
Albany, the seat of Dougherty County, has been the commercial hub of southwest Georgia fo...
Overview
Traditionally styled residences, embodying a full range of historical images in what beca...
One of the most valuable sources available for understanding the experiences of enslaved...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with headquarters in Atlanta, has b...
The sectional crisis of the 1850s, in which Georgia played a pivotal role, led to the...
1932-2018Zell Miller played a significant role in Georgia politics during the last half of the twe...
Georgia was helped perhaps as much as any state by the New Deal, which brought advances i...
The Ocmulgee River is the westernmost major tributary of the Altamaha River system. The Oc...
1925-1964Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers and one of the s...
Georgia played a significant role during America's participation in World War I (1917-18)...
Historian Ralph Melnick has written that "nearly everything one concludes from a study of...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a major Protestant denomination in Georgia and the l...
1929-1968
Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian L...
Jews have lived in Atlanta since its founding. Their businesses met important economic ne...
Few cities in America have a daily newspaper that has published continuously for more than...
Founded in 1733 by colonists led by James Edward Oglethorpe, Savannah is the oldest city...
Augusta, Georgia's second oldest and third largest city, is the seat of Richmond County....
Overview
Georgia's deep roots in Methodism reach back to the founders of the Methodist movement. M...
Begun in 1928 in Louisiana as the Delta Air Service, the Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is,...
Overview
Among southern states, only Mississippi, by virtue of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ten...
The lure of making money from cotton and the waterpower of the Chattahoochee River shaped...
PreK-12
As of 2008, approximately 1.6 million students were enrolled in prekindergarten through t...
The period from 1895 to 1960 in Georgia was characterized by a widening support for and i...
The gold-covered capitol dome in the Atlanta skyline signifies that the city is home to G...
