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1893 Sea Islands Hurricane

1893 Sea Islands Hurricane

Ralph David Abernathy

Ralph David Abernathy

1926-1990
Adella Hunt Logan

Adella Hunt Logan

1863-1915
African American Archaeology

African American Archaeology

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Amos T. Akerman

Amos T. Akerman

1821-1880
Albany Movement

Albany Movement

Edward Porter Alexander

Edward Porter Alexander

1835-1910
Americus Movement

Americus Movement

William G. Anderson

William G. Anderson

b. 1927
Andersonville Prison

Andersonville Prison

Andrews Raid

Andrews Raid

Eliza Frances Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews

1840-1931
Garnett Andrews

Garnett Andrews

1798-1873
Anglican Church

Anglican Church

Antebellum Artisans

Antebellum Artisans

Antebellum Industrialization

Antebellum Industrialization

April in Georgia History

April in Georgia History

Archaeology in Historic Preservation

Archaeology in Historic Preservation

Archaic Period

Archaic Period

Overview
Ellis Arnall

Ellis Arnall

1907-1992
Atlanta Campaign

Atlanta Campaign

Atlanta Compromise Speech

Atlanta Compromise Speech

Atlanta History Center

Atlanta History Center

Atlanta History

Atlanta History

A Journal of Georgia and the South
Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906

Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906

Atlanta Sit-ins

Atlanta Sit-ins

Atlanta Youth Murders

Atlanta Youth Murders

Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

Auburn Avenue

Auburn Avenue

Sweet Auburn
August in Georgia History

August in Georgia History

Augusta Canal

Augusta Canal

Augusta Riot

Augusta Riot

Alfred Austell

Alfred Austell

1814-1881
Clarence A. Bacote

Clarence A. Bacote

1906-1981
Cornelia Bailey

Cornelia Bailey

1945-2017
Lena Baker Case

Lena Baker Case

Abraham Baldwin

Abraham Baldwin

1754-1807
George N. Barnard in Georgia

George N. Barnard in Georgia

Francis S. Bartow

Francis S. Bartow

1816-1861
Battle of Bloody Marsh

Battle of Bloody Marsh

Battle of Chickamauga

Battle of Chickamauga

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Battle of Kettle Creek

Battle of Kettle Creek

Battle of Pickett’s Mill

Battle of Pickett’s Mill

Battle of Resaca

Battle of Resaca

Malcolm Bell Jr.

Malcolm Bell Jr.

1913-2001
Berry Benson

Berry Benson

1843-1923
John Macpherson Berrien

John Macpherson Berrien

1781-1856
Harrison Berry

Harrison Berry

1816-ca. 1882
Bibb Manufacturing Company

Bibb Manufacturing Company

Black Legislators during Reconstruction

Black Legislators during Reconstruction

Black Troops in Civil War Georgia

Black Troops in Civil War Georgia

Nellie Peters Black

Nellie Peters Black

1851-1919
John Blassingame

John Blassingame

1940-2000
Logan Bleckley

Logan Bleckley

1827-1907
James Blount

James Blount

1837-1903
Johann Martin Boltzius

Johann Martin Boltzius

1703-1765
Julian Bond

Julian Bond

1940-2015
Daniel Boorstin

Daniel Boorstin

1914-2004
William Bootle

William Bootle

1902-2005
William Holmes Borders

William Holmes Borders

1905-1993
Elias Boudinot

Elias Boudinot

ca. 1804-1839
Boundaries of Georgia

Boundaries of Georgia

Bourbon Triumvirate

Bourbon Triumvirate

Branch Mint at Dahlonega

Branch Mint at Dahlonega

Thomas Brewer

Thomas Brewer

1894-1956
Brims

Brims

d. 1733
Brotherhood March

Brotherhood March

H. Rap Brown

H. Rap Brown

b. 1943
John Brown

John Brown

ca. 1810-1876
Joseph E. Brown

Joseph E. Brown

1821-1894
Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown

1750-1825
Nathan Brownson

Nathan Brownson

1742-1796
Eugene Bullard

Eugene Bullard

1895-1961
Archibald Bulloch

Archibald Bulloch

1730-1777
James D. Bulloch

James D. Bulloch

1823-1901
Rufus Bullock

Rufus Bullock

1834-1907
Bus Desegregation in Atlanta

Bus Desegregation in Atlanta

David Bushnell

David Bushnell

1740-1826
Butler Family

Butler Family

Selena Sloan Butler

Selena Sloan Butler

ca. 1872-1964
Archibald Butt

Archibald Butt

1865-1912
Callaway Family

Callaway Family

Camilla Massacre

Camilla Massacre

Archibald Campbell

Archibald Campbell

1739-1791
Tunis Campbell

Tunis Campbell

1812-1891
Asa Candler

Asa Candler

1851-1929
Cane Island Site

Cane Island Site

James V. Carmichael

James V. Carmichael

1910-1972
Carter Center

Carter Center

Carter Family

Carter Family

Rosalynn Carter

Rosalynn Carter

1927-2023
Edward J. Cashin

Edward J. Cashin

1927-2007
Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company

Cherokee Indians

Cherokee Indians

Cherokee Phoenix

Cherokee Phoenix

Cherokee Removal

Cherokee Removal

Chief Vann House

Chief Vann House

Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home

Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home

Featured Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Civil War Archaeology

Civil War Archaeology

Civil War Cemeteries

Civil War Cemeteries

Civil War Centennial

Civil War Centennial

Civil War Dissent

Civil War Dissent

Civil War in Georgia

Civil War in Georgia

Overview
Civil War Industry and Manufacturing

Civil War Industry and Manufacturing

Civil War Journals, Diaries, and Memoirs

Civil War Journals, Diaries, and Memoirs

Civil War on the Chattahoochee River

Civil War on the Chattahoochee River

Civil War Prisons

Civil War Prisons

Civil War Reenacting

Civil War Reenacting

Civil War

Civil War

Atlanta Home Front
Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps

John Clark

John Clark

1766-1832
Elijah Clarke

Elijah Clarke

1742-1799
Lucius D. Clay

Lucius D. Clay

1897-1978
Coastal Shell Rings

Coastal Shell Rings

Howell Cobb

Howell Cobb

1815-1868
Thomas R. R. Cobb

Thomas R. R. Cobb

1823-1862
Howard Coffin

Howard Coffin

1873-1937
Kenneth Coleman

Kenneth Coleman

1916-1999
Colonial Coastal Fortifications

Colonial Coastal Fortifications

Colonial Immigration

Colonial Immigration

Colonial Military

Colonial Military

Columbians

Columbians

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Communists

Communists

Confederate Gold

Confederate Gold

Confederate Hospitals

Confederate Hospitals

Confederate Monuments

Confederate Monuments

Confederate Veteran Organizations

Confederate Veteran Organizations

Constitutional Convention of 1877

Constitutional Convention of 1877

Constitutional Conventions

Constitutional Conventions

Convict Lease System

Convict Lease System

Mark Anthony Cooper

Mark Anthony Cooper

1800-1885
John Ruggles Cotting

John Ruggles Cotting

1784-1867
Cotton Expositions in Atlanta

Cotton Expositions in Atlanta

Cotton Gins

Cotton Gins

E. Merton Coulter

E. Merton Coulter

1890-1981
County Unit System

County Unit System

William and Ellen Craft

William and Ellen Craft

1824-1900; 1826-1891
George W. Crawford

George W. Crawford

1798-1872
William Harris Crawford

William Harris Crawford

1772-1834
Creek Indian Leaders

Creek Indian Leaders

Creek Indians

Creek Indians

Charles Crisp

Charles Crisp

1845-1896
Crypt of Civilization

Crypt of Civilization

CSS Savannah

CSS Savannah

Henry Cumming

Henry Cumming

1799-1866
Kate Cumming

Kate Cumming

ca. 1830-1909
Cyclorama

Cyclorama

Austin Dabney

Austin Dabney

ca. 1765-1830
Capture of Jefferson Davis

Capture of Jefferson Davis

De Renne Family

De Renne Family

Hernando de Soto in Georgia

Hernando de Soto in Georgia

December in Georgia History

December in Georgia History

Desegregation of Higher Education

Desegregation of Higher Education

Desertion during the Civil War

Desertion during the Civil War

Amanda America Dickson

Amanda America Dickson

1849-1893
Disability Rights Movement

Disability Rights Movement

Dixie Highway

Dixie Highway

John Wesley Dobbs

John Wesley Dobbs

1882-1961
W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia

W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia

DuBignon Family

DuBignon Family

Dueling in Georgia

Dueling in Georgia

Mary Frances Early

Mary Frances Early

b. 1936
Ebenezer

Ebenezer

Ebos Landing

Ebos Landing

Samuel Elbert

Samuel Elbert

1740-1788
Electric Cooperatives

Electric Cooperatives

Henry Ellis

Henry Ellis

1721-1806
Emancipation

Emancipation

David Emanuel

David Emanuel

ca. 1744-1808
English Trade in Deerskins and Enslaved Indians

English Trade in Deerskins and Enslaved Indians

Enslaved Women

Enslaved Women

Olaudah Equiano in Georgia

Olaudah Equiano in Georgia

Etowah Mounds

Etowah Mounds

Eugenics in Georgia

Eugenics in Georgia

Clement Evans

Clement Evans

1833-1911
William Ewen

William Ewen

ca. 1720-1776/1777
Farmers’ Alliance

Farmers’ Alliance

February in Georgia History

February in Georgia History

Federal Road

Federal Road

Rebecca Latimer Felton

Rebecca Latimer Felton

1835-1930
William Few Jr.

William Few Jr.

1748-1828
Fictional Treatments of Sherman in Georgia

Fictional Treatments of Sherman in Georgia

First African Baptist Church

First African Baptist Church

Flint River Farms Resettlement Community

Flint River Farms Resettlement Community

Julia Flisch

Julia Flisch

1861-1941
Charles Rinaldo Floyd

Charles Rinaldo Floyd

1797-1845
Foreign Prisoners of War

Foreign Prisoners of War

Fort Daniel

Fort Daniel

Fort Frederica

Fort Frederica

Fort King George

Fort King George

Fort McAllister

Fort McAllister

Fort Pulaski

Fort Pulaski

Leo Frank Case

Leo Frank Case

Freedmen’s Bureau

Freedmen’s Bureau

Freedmen’s Education during Reconstruction

Freedmen’s Education during Reconstruction

Freedom Rides

Freedom Rides

Freedom Singers

Freedom Singers

French Presence in Georgia

French Presence in Georgia

Millard Fuller

Millard Fuller

1935-2009
George Galphin

George Galphin

ca. 1700-1780
Genealogy

Genealogy

Georgia and the Sectional Crisis

Georgia and the Sectional Crisis

Georgia Guidestones

Georgia Guidestones

Georgia Historical Quarterly

Georgia Historical Quarterly

Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Historical Society

Georgia History

Georgia History

Overview
Georgia in 1860

Georgia in 1860

Georgia Military Institute

Georgia Military Institute

Georgia Penitentiary at Milledgeville

Georgia Penitentiary at Milledgeville

Georgia Platform

Georgia Platform

Georgia Secession Convention of 1861

Georgia Secession Convention of 1861

Georgia Women of Achievement

Georgia Women of Achievement

Gold Rush

Gold Rush

Goose Pond

Goose Pond

William Washington Gordon

William Washington Gordon

1796-1842
Henry W. Grady

Henry W. Grady

1850-1889
Grant Park

Grant Park

Lemuel Grant

Lemuel Grant

1817-1893
John D. Gray

John D. Gray

1808-1878
Great Depression

Great Depression

Great Migration

Great Migration

Catharine Greene

Catharine Greene

1755-1814
Nathanael Greene

Nathanael Greene

1742-1786
William Grimes

William Grimes

1784-1865
Griswoldville

Griswoldville

Guerrilla Warfare during the Civil War

Guerrilla Warfare during the Civil War

Button Gwinnett

Button Gwinnett

1735-1777
Habersham Family

Habersham Family

Lyman Hall

Lyman Hall

1724-1790
Grace Towns Hamilton

Grace Towns Hamilton

1907-1992
Nancy Hart

Nancy Hart

ca. 1735-1830
William B. Hartsfield

William B. Hartsfield

1890-1971
Benjamin Hawkins

Benjamin Hawkins

1754-1816
Stephen Heard

Stephen Heard

1740-1815
Alonzo Herndon

Alonzo Herndon

1858-1927
Angelo Herndon Case

Angelo Herndon Case

Benjamin Hill

Benjamin Hill

1823-1882
Jesse Hill

Jesse Hill

1927-2012
Joshua Hill

Joshua Hill

1812-1891
William Brown Hodgson

William Brown Hodgson

1801-1871
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation

Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation

John Henry “Doc” Holliday

John Henry “Doc” Holliday

1851-1887
Donald Hollowell

Donald Hollowell

1917-2004
Hamilton Holmes

Hamilton Holmes

1941-1995
Hopkins Holsey

Hopkins Holsey

ca. 1799-1859
Lucius Holsey

Lucius Holsey

1842-1920
Lugenia Burns Hope

Lugenia Burns Hope

1871-1947
John Houstoun

John Houstoun

ca. 1747-1796
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

b. 1942
Joel Hurt

Joel Hurt

1850-1926
Indian Missions

Indian Missions

Indian Pottery

Indian Pottery

Indian Projectile Points

Indian Projectile Points

Indian Trails

Indian Trails

Indian Warfare

Indian Warfare

Indigo

Indigo

Inman Family

Inman Family

Inman Park

Inman Park

John C. Inscoe

John C. Inscoe

b. 1951
Irene Mounds

Irene Mounds

Alfred Iverson Jr.

Alfred Iverson Jr.

1829-1911
James Jackson

James Jackson

1757-1806
Maynard Jackson

Maynard Jackson

1938-2003
January in Georgia History

January in Georgia History

Charles Jones Jenkins

Charles Jones Jenkins

1805-1883
Jewish Community of Atlanta

Jewish Community of Atlanta

Herschel Johnson

Herschel Johnson

1812-1880
Leroy Johnson

Leroy Johnson

1928-2019
Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston

Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston

1764-1848
Charles C. Jones Jr.

Charles C. Jones Jr.

1831-1893
J. William Jones

J. William Jones

1836-1909
Noble W. Jones

Noble W. Jones

ca. 1723-1805
Vernon Jordan

Vernon Jordan

1935-2021
July in Georgia History

July in Georgia History

June in Georgia History

June in Georgia History

Fanny Kemble

Fanny Kemble

1809-1893
Stetson Kennedy

Stetson Kennedy

1916-2011
King Center

King Center

King Papers

King Papers

King Site

King Site

C. B. King

C. B. King

1923-1988
Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King

1927-2006
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

1929-1968
Martin Luther King Jr. Streets in Georgia

Martin Luther King Jr. Streets in Georgia

Preston King

Preston King

b. 1936
Primus E. King

Primus E. King

1900-1986
Roswell King

Roswell King

1765-1844
Slater King

Slater King

1927-1969
Thomas Butler King

Thomas Butler King

1800-1864
Knights of Labor

Knights of Labor

Kolomoki Mounds

Kolomoki Mounds

Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

Ku Klux Klan in the Twentieth Century

Ku Klux Klan in the Twentieth Century

Marquis de Lafayette in Georgia

Marquis de Lafayette in Georgia

Lamar Period

Lamar Period

Mirabeau B. Lamar

Mirabeau B. Lamar

1798-1859
Land Lottery System

Land Lottery System

Mills B. Lane Jr.

Mills B. Lane Jr.

1912-1989
Lucy Craft Laney

Lucy Craft Laney

1854-1933
Languages of Georgia Indians

Languages of Georgia Indians

Late Prehistoric/Early Historic Chiefdoms

Late Prehistoric/Early Historic Chiefdoms

ca. A.D. 1300-1850
Latino Immigration

Latino Immigration

W. W. Law

W. W. Law

1923-2002
LeConte Family

LeConte Family

Charles Lindbergh in Georgia

Charles Lindbergh in Georgia

Carrie Steele Logan

Carrie Steele Logan

1829-1900
Jefferson Franklin Long

Jefferson Franklin Long

1836-1901
Helen Dortch Longstreet

Helen Dortch Longstreet

1863-1962
James Longstreet

James Longstreet

1821-1904
Lost Cause Religion

Lost Cause Religion

Juliette Gordon Low

Juliette Gordon Low

1860-1927
Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery

1921-2020
Joseph Henry Lumpkin

Joseph Henry Lumpkin

1799-1867
Wilson Lumpkin

Wilson Lumpkin

1783-1870
Lynching

Lynching

Macon Trading Post

Macon Trading Post

Lester Maddox

Lester Maddox

1915-2003
Malatchi

Malatchi

ca. 1720-1756
Malcontents

Malcontents

The Mallard Murder Case

The Mallard Murder Case

Helen Douglas Mankin

Helen Douglas Mankin

1894-1956
March in Georgia History

March in Georgia History

“Marching through Georgia”

“Marching through Georgia”

John Martin

John Martin

ca. 1730-1786
George Mathews

George Mathews

1739-1812
Leonard Matlovich

Leonard Matlovich

1943-1988
May in Georgia History

May in Georgia History

Benjamin Mays

Benjamin Mays

ca. 1894-1984
Hugh McCall

Hugh McCall

1767-1824
Charles McCartney

Charles McCartney

"Goat Man," 1901-1998
Alexander McGillivray

Alexander McGillivray

ca. 1750-1793
Lachlan McGillivray

Lachlan McGillivray

1719-1799
Lachlan McIntosh

Lachlan McIntosh

1727-1806
William McIntosh

William McIntosh

ca. 1778-1825
Mary Latimer McLendon

Mary Latimer McLendon

1840-1921
Moina Belle Michael

Moina Belle Michael

1869-1944
John Milledge

John Milledge

1757-1818
Ministers’ Manifesto

Ministers’ Manifesto

Mission Santa Catalina de Guale

Mission Santa Catalina de Guale

Mississippian Period

Mississippian Period

Overview
Howard Moore Jr.

Howard Moore Jr.

b. 1932
Raphael Moses

Raphael Moses

1812-1893
Mary Musgrove

Mary Musgrove

ca. 1700-ca. 1763
Nacoochee Mound

Nacoochee Mound

Nancy Harts Militia

Nancy Harts Militia

Viola Ross Napier

Viola Ross Napier

1881-1962
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

NAACP
National Center for Civil and Human Rights

National Center for Civil and Human Rights

National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus

National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus

Naval Stores Industry

Naval Stores Industry

New Deal

New Deal

Nineteenth-Century Georgia Newspapers

Nineteenth-Century Georgia Newspapers

Eugenius A. Nisbet

Eugenius A. Nisbet

1803-1871
November in Georgia History

November in Georgia History

Samuel Nunes

Samuel Nunes

ca. 1667-ca. 1741
Ocmulgee Mounds

Ocmulgee Mounds

October in Georgia History

October in Georgia History

Featured James Oglethorpe

James Oglethorpe

1696-1785
Old Governor’s Mansion

Old Governor’s Mansion

Orly Air Crash of 1962

Orly Air Crash of 1962

Paleoindian Period

Paleoindian Period

Overview
Paschal’s Restaurant

Paschal’s Restaurant

Frances Pauley

Frances Pauley

1905-2003
Lemuel Penn Murder

Lemuel Penn Murder

Petersburg

Petersburg

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

1877-1934
William Pierce

William Pierce

1753-1789
Poor Whites

Poor Whites

Populist Party

Populist Party

Oliver H. Prince

Oliver H. Prince

1782-1837
Progressive Era

Progressive Era

Prohibition in Georgia

Prohibition in Georgia

Public Archaeology Programs

Public Archaeology Programs

Casimir Pulaski in Georgia

Casimir Pulaski in Georgia

Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum

Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum

Jeannette Rankin

Jeannette Rankin

1880-1973
Arthur F. Raper

Arthur F. Raper

1899-1979
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Bernice Johnson Reagon

b. 1942
Reconstruction Conventions

Reconstruction Conventions

Reconstruction in Georgia

Reconstruction in Georgia

Redemption

Redemption

Revolutionary War in Georgia

Revolutionary War in Georgia

John Reynolds

John Reynolds

ca. 1713-1788
Major Ridge

Major Ridge

ca. 1771-1839
Elizabeth Church Robb

Elizabeth Church Robb

1823-1868
Rock Mounds and Structures

Rock Mounds and Structures

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia

Rosa Lee Ingram Case

Rosa Lee Ingram Case

John Ross

John Ross

1790-1866
Deportation of Roswell Mill Women

Deportation of Roswell Mill Women

Roy V. Harris

Roy V. Harris

1895-1985
Royal Georgia, 1752-1776

Royal Georgia, 1752-1776

Rural Electrification Act

Rural Electrification Act

Ina Dillard Russell

Ina Dillard Russell

1868-1953
Richard B. Russell Sr.

Richard B. Russell Sr.

1861-1938
Lizzie Rutherford

Lizzie Rutherford

1833-1873
Mildred Lewis Rutherford

Mildred Lewis Rutherford

1851-1928
Salzburgers

Salzburgers

Savannah City Plan

Savannah City Plan

Albert B. Saye

Albert B. Saye

1912-1989
Secession

Secession

Segregation

Segregation

Seminole Wars

Seminole Wars

September in Georgia History

September in Georgia History

Sequoyah

Sequoyah

ca. 1770-ca. 1840
Sharecropping

Sharecropping

Mordecai Sheftall

Mordecai Sheftall

1735-1797
Sherman’s Field Order No. 15

Sherman’s Field Order No. 15

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Earl T. Shinhoster

Earl T. Shinhoster

1950-2000
Sidney Root

Sidney Root

1824-1897
Siege of Savannah

Siege of Savannah

Singer-Moye Mounds

Singer-Moye Mounds

Claude Sitton

Claude Sitton

1925-2015
Slave Narratives

Slave Narratives

Slave Patrols

Slave Patrols

Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

Slavery in Colonial Georgia

Slavery in Colonial Georgia

Slavery in Revolutionary Georgia

Slavery in Revolutionary Georgia

Neptune Small

Neptune Small

1831-1907
Social Security Act

Social Security Act

Society for Georgia Archaeology

Society for Georgia Archaeology

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

SCLC
Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort

Phinizy Spalding

Phinizy Spalding

1930-1994
Thomas Spalding

Thomas Spalding

1774-1851
Spanish Exploration

Spanish Exploration

Spanish Missions

Spanish Missions

Spanish-American War in Georgia

Spanish-American War in Georgia

Emory Speer

Emory Speer

1848-1918
Stallings Island Site

Stallings Island Site

State’s Rights Hotel

State’s Rights Hotel

Alexander Stephens

Alexander Stephens

1812-1883
William Stephens

William Stephens

1671-1753
William Bacon Stevens

William Bacon Stevens

1815-1887
Student Movements of the 1960s

Student Movements of the 1960s

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

SNCC
Sundown Towns

Sundown Towns

Susan Eberhart Case

Susan Eberhart Case

Swift Creek Culture

Swift Creek Culture

Tabby

Tabby

Benjamin Taliaferro

Benjamin Taliaferro

1750-1821
Herman Talmadge

Herman Talmadge

1913-2002
Josiah Tattnall

Josiah Tattnall

1795-1871
Susie King Taylor

Susie King Taylor

1848-1912
Telfair Family

Telfair Family

Edward Telfair

Edward Telfair

1735-1807
Mary Telfair

Mary Telfair

1791-1875
Temperance Movement

Temperance Movement

Tenant Farming

Tenant Farming

The Scripto Strikes

The Scripto Strikes

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas

1834-1907
Jesse O. Thomas

Jesse O. Thomas

1885-1972
C. Mildred Thompson

C. Mildred Thompson

1881-1975
Melvin E. Thompson

Melvin E. Thompson

1903-1980
Henry Tift

Henry Tift

1841-1922
Nelson Tift

Nelson Tift

1810-1891
Dorothy Rogers Tilly

Dorothy Rogers Tilly

1883-1970
Time Capsules

Time Capsules

Tomochichi

Tomochichi

ca. 1644-1739
Peter Tondee

Peter Tondee

ca. 1723-1775
Robert Toombs

Robert Toombs

1810-1885
Trans-Oconee Republic

Trans-Oconee Republic

John Adam Treutlen

John Adam Treutlen

1733-1782
Trustee Garden

Trustee Garden

Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752

Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752

Henry McNeal Turner

Henry McNeal Turner

1834-1915
Elbert Parr Tuttle

Elbert Parr Tuttle

1897-1996
John Twiggs

John Twiggs

1750-1816
U-boat Attacks during World War II

U-boat Attacks during World War II

Union Blockade and Coastal Occupation in the Civil War

Union Blockade and Coastal Occupation in the Civil War

Unionists

Unionists

United Daughters of the Confederacy

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Universal Negro Improvement Association

W. J. Usery Jr.

W. J. Usery Jr.

1923-2016
USS Savannah

USS Savannah

USS Water Witch

USS Water Witch

Joseph Vann

Joseph Vann

1798-1844
Augustin Verot

Augustin Verot

1804-1876
Vietnam War in Georgia

Vietnam War in Georgia

Carl Vinson

Carl Vinson

1883-1981
Voter Education Project

Voter Education Project

A. T. Walden

A. T. Walden

1885-1965
George Walton

George Walton

ca. 1749-1804
Wanderer

Wanderer

War of 1812 and Georgia

War of 1812 and Georgia

War of Jenkins’ Ear

War of Jenkins’ Ear

Horace T. Ward

Horace T. Ward

1927-2016
Hiram Warner

Hiram Warner

1802-1881
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A black and white drawing of the Chattahoochee Brick Company site, with a caption reading, "Works at Chattahoochee Brick Company on Southern Railway. Capacity 200,000 per day."

Chattahoochee Brick Company

The Chattahoochee Brick Company was among the largest and most notorious employers of convict labor in Georgia. Under the terms of the convict lease system, Chattahoochee Brick forced thousands of Black Georgians to labor under conditions that have been described as industrial slavery.

Courtesy of Atlanta History Center.

Thomas Ruger

Thomas Ruger

Thomas Ruger, a Union officer, was appointed military provisional governor of Georgia in 1868, during Reconstruction. During his six-month tenure, Ruger instituted the state's convict lease system.

Courtesy of Georgia Capitol Museum, University of Georgia Libraries

Chattahoochee Brick Company Broadside

Chattahoochee Brick Company Broadside

A $350 reward was issued for escaped convict laborers from the Chattahoochee Brick Company.

Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Historical Broadsides Collection.

Hoke Smith

Hoke Smith

Hoke Smith poses for a portrait in 1912, the year after his second term as Georgia's governor had ended. Smith served as governor first from 1907 to 1909 and then again in 1911, until he was selected to fill the empty U.S. Senate seat of Joseph M. Terrell. He remained in this seat until 1921.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

First National Bank Building

First National Bank Building

Formed as the result of several mergers, First National Bank of Atlanta (or First Atlanta) was the largest U.S. bank south of Philadelphia in 1929. The First National Bank Building served as First Atlanta's headquarters.

Courtesy of Wachovia Corporation

John C. Inscoe

John C. Inscoe is University Professor Emeritus and the Albert B. Saye Professor of History, Emeritus, in the Department of History at the University of Georgia. He has authored several books on Appalachian and southern history and is the founding editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

From the Department of History at the University of Georgia

Movie-Made Appalachia

Movie-Made Appalachia

John C. Inscoe, Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, taught popular courses including American Lives, Multicultural Georgia, and Appalachia on Film. Those courses later influenced his scholarly works, including Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South (2020).

Southern Comfort Pin

Southern Comfort Pin

The Southern Comfort Conference was one of the most well-known transgender conferences in the United States. Originally held in Atlanta, it created a space where members of the transgender community could gather, learn about medical resources, and organize politically.

From the Digital Transgender Archive, Joseph A Labadie Collection, University of Michigan.

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Southern Conference

Southern Comfort

The 2001 documentary Southern Comfort brought unprecedented attention and visibility to the Southern Comfort Conference. Directed by Kate Davis, the film follows the final months of long-time conference regular Robert Eads, a Georgian transgender man dying of ovarian cancer.

Sharecroppers, Greene County

Sharecroppers, Greene County

Cotton sharecroppers in Greene County, 1937. The sociologist Arthur F. Raper studied the county in the 1930s and found that soil depletion, low cotton prices, and boll weevil attacks were causing a massive outmigration of farmers.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photograph by Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, #LC-USF34-T01-017335-C.

Robert S. Abbott

Robert S. Abbott

Robert S. Abbott, a Georgia native, was a prominent journalist who founded the Chicago Defender in 1905. He is pictured (second row, fifth from right) in June 1918 at a meeting of Black leaders in Washington, D.C. Prominent historian and educator W. E. B. Du Bois stands in the first row, fourth from the right.

Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

Chicago Migrants

Over the course six decades, roughly 6 million Black southerners moved from the South to the North, Midwest, and West. Driven by the availability of jobs outside the South, as well as the desire to escape racial violence within it, migrants moved primarily from rural, agricultural areas like Georgia’s Black Belt to cities such as Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

From The New York Public Library, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, by the Chicago Commission on Race Relations.

Housing in Chicago’s Black Belt

Black southerners left rural, agricultural areas like Georgia’s Black Belt for cities such as Detroit, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Migrants found their new settings to be an improvement but also full of obstacles. White flight and discriminatory housing policies funneled African Americans into poorer neighborhoods and public housing complexes.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives.

Black and white photograph of Leonard Matlovich receiving a Bronze Star in Vietnam.

Leonard Matlovich

Leonard Matlovich received a Bronze Star in 1966 for his service in the Vietnam War. Born in Savannah, he was one of the earliest activists to challenge the status of gays and lesbians in the U.S. military.

Courtesy of Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library, Cliff Anchor Papers (GLC 49), #GLC-0013.

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Rally Before the Augusta Riot

Rally Before the Augusta Riot

On May 11, 1970 protestors massed outside an Augusta municipal building to protest the killing of Charles Oatman, a developmentally disabled Black teenager, in the Richmond County Jail. In 2021 the Department of Justice, through its Cold Case initiative, reopened its investigation into the deaths of Oatman and six other Black Augustans killed in the ensuing protests.

From Reese Library Augusta University

Protestors set a laundromat on fire at during the Augusta Riot

Augusta Riot

On May 11, 1970 thousands of Black Augustans participated in a major uprising against police violence. Known thereafter as the Augusta Riot, the event resulted in $1 million in property damage and was the largest Black rebellion in the civil rights South.

From the Augusta Chronicle

National Student Moratorium

National Student Moratorium Poster