PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
Explore “Look Forward,” a digital exhibition about the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who covered the civil rights movement in Georgia.
WHAT’S NEW?
NEWS
- “What caused Georgia’s political shift on abortion?” — SaportaReport
- “Atlantans remember when war in the Middle East felt close to home” — SaportaReport
- “How Georgia remembers its soldiers’ sacrifices” — SaportaReport
- Newsletter: Teacher workshop, “duck and cover,” and WWI military medicine
- “The philanthropic roots of Athens Academy” — SaportaReport
- “When Emory doctors went to war” — SaportaReport
- Newsletter: National History Day, food and World War I, and AJFF Selects
- “The greatest generation of lawyers and the far-reaching impact of Emory Law School” — Saporta Report
- “Civil War photography provides clues to Atlanta, then and now” — SaportaReport
- Newsletter: Hometown Teams, New Georgia Encyclopedia, and teacher workshops
- “Atlanta United Football Club and its supporters are serious about Atlanta’s history” — SaportaReport
- “How African American voters defeated racist Lester Maddox in the Atlanta mayoral race of 1961” — SaportaReport
- Newsletter: World War I centennial commemoration and National Poetry Month
- “World War I changed Georgia” — SaportaReport
- “Lost Southern Voices festival puts focus on lesser-known writers” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Newsletter: Save the NEH, grant applications due, resilient Atlanta, finding “lost” authors
- “The National Endowment for the Humanities is at work in Georgia” — SaportaReport
- National History Day in the Classroom 2017 teacher workshop announced
TWITTER
- GH board member Kevin Langston is on the cover of latest Georgia Trend. Read about tourism in the state:… https://t.co/tGddzSFhT6 4 months ago
- Happy birthday to #CharlayneHunterGault, civil rights pioneer, born #OTD in 1942 https://t.co/42Qhuu1Ki6 4 months ago
- RT @wsbtv : “For all our outward differences, we in fact all share the same proud title…Citizen.” — @POTUS #FarewellObama https://t.co/tMTCXQ… 6 months ago
- RT @NationalHistory : Looking for artifacts and primary sources for your #NHD2017 project? Check out this from the @NMAAHC https://t.co/Jw… 7 months ago
- RT @Histocrats : The boys of Currahee: they stood alone. Read Jamil Zainaldin's latest to learn more about Easy Company. @gahumanities http:… 3 years ago
STORIES
The “forever” of Flannery O’Connor
The art of Georgia writer Flannery O’Connor lies in her ability to condense the heaviest of thoughts about life and purpose into the commonplace of stories.
The slave dwelling project
The 21st-century idea of sleeping in a slave cabin from the antebellum era is at first challenging to the mind and the memory. What’s the point? Who would choose to do this? But this is exactly what Joseph McGill Jr., the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, does.
An award for all mankind, a dinner for one—the Atlanta Nobel Prize party for MLK, given by the city’s image-conscious white leadership
On October 14, 1964, the Nobel Committee announced that thirty-five-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Georgia roots of one of the 20th century’s most successful songwriters
Music- and film-making are thriving businesses in Georgia now, but Georgia native Johnny Mercer—writer of such memorable songs as “Glow-Worm” and “Jeepers Creepers,” which were wildly popular in their day—successfully blended both during his long career.
