December 2016 – Georgia Humanities

New park helps small city’s residents discover “greene” space and forgotten son of the New South

By Brian Brodrick The name—Atticus Greene Haygood—conjures images of To Kill a Mockingbird and old Georgia, which are both appropriate. If it were not for the New Georgia Encyclopedia, [...]

R-e-s-p-e-c-t—what August Wilson earns

By Jamil Zainaldin Love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. We know these as essences of life. They are also at the heart of the stories told in the poetry and plays […]

Supporting the “battle” to preserve local history

By Georgia Humanities Staff Henry Bryant remembers how difficult it was 10 years ago to get support for B*ATL—a series of events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of […]

Behind the scenes at the Governor’s Mansion, the “people’s house”

By Jennifer Dickey and Catherine Lewis As he was leaving an event at the Governor’s Mansion in Ansley Park in 1963, C&S Bank president Mills Lane was nearly struck on […]

What’s good for the community is good for business

By Georgia Humanities Staff An eighteen-hour day and a six-day workweek was the norm for Fuller E. Callaway. The subject of a new book—Fuller E. Callaway: Portrait of a New South […]

Watching old photos “develop” into new families

FDR—the face of the New Deal in Georgia

How the invention of Georgia’s cotton gin changed the world