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Heritage Works For Us StoryCorps Community Archive of Local History & World Cafe Town Hall

Prospect Baptist Church Mission Hall 1022 Johnson Road, Townsend, GA, United States

Heritage Works will facilitate a two-day event that utilizes the StoryCorps mobile app and will provide members of the Darien community the opportunity to share their memories with trained interviewers. Renderings will be archived and stored in the Library of Congress, with access granted to community members. A community World Cafe will follow, highlighting issues […]

Spring 2025 Grant Application Open

Georgia Humanities supports the efforts of nonprofit organizations seeking to foster connections between people and ideas. Through a competitive process, we award grants to such cultural, civic, and educational entities as museums, libraries, universities, and historical societies for a range of projects, including walking tours, exhibitions, author talks, lecture series, and literary festivals. Proposed grant […]

“So They Might Be Known” Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion

Hay House 934 Georgia Avenue, Macon, GA, United States

Since Hay House opened as a museum in 1964, there has been research done but no interpretation of the lives of African Americans who worked at the house from the time of enslavement through the Civil Rights movement. The exhibit titled, "So They Might Be Known," will tell their stories and fill a much-needed gap […]

Spring 2025 Grant Application Preliminary Deadline (Optional)

Georgia Humanities supports the efforts of nonprofit organizations seeking to foster connections between people and ideas. Through a competitive process, we award grants to such cultural, civic, and educational entities as museums, libraries, universities, and historical societies for a range of projects, including walking tours, exhibitions, author talks, lecture series, and literary festivals. Proposed grant […]

Holocaust Lecture Series

Augusta University 1120 15th St., Augusta, GA, United States

Join August University for the final presentation of the Holocaust Lecture Series, exploring women’s experiences during the Holocaust and its aftermath. Speakers include AU faculty members Dr. Nicole Meyer and Dr. Jodi Fissel. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities. 

Free

Spring 2025 Grant Application Deadline

Georgia Humanities supports the efforts of nonprofit organizations seeking to foster connections between people and ideas. Through a competitive process, we award grants to such cultural, civic, and educational entities as museums, libraries, universities, and historical societies for a range of projects, including walking tours, exhibitions, author talks, lecture series, and literary festivals. Proposed grant […]

More than a Name: Commemorating Bulloch’s African American Fallen Soldiers of WWI Exhibit (Lecture)

Interdisciplinary Academic Building at Georgia Southern University 950 I.T. Drive, Statesboro, United States

Approximately 370,000 African Americans served in the First World War, including thousands of Georgians. In Bulloch County, dozens of African American men volunteered for or were drafted into service, and 13 of those men died while in uniform. report. This project aims to grant Bulloch County's fallen African Americans the place they deserve in the […]

Spring Place & Oochgeelogy: Moravian Missions Among the Cherokee

Funk Heritage Center 7300 Reinhardt College Cir, Waleska, Georgia

Presented by Wanda Patterson, “Spring Place & Oochgeelogy” tells the dramatic story of the first missionary group to be permitted to establish schools and mission stations in the Cherokee Nation--the Moravians. The lecture will focus on the origins and development of Moravian missionary activity in the Cherokee Nation, highlighting the patterns of cross-cultural exchange between […]

Free

Ocmulgee Rising: A Celebration of Muscogee Creativity with Joy Harjo

Middle Georgia State University 5098 Romeiser Dr, Macon, Georgia

Georgia Humanities invites you to join us for Ocmulgee Rising: A Celebration of Muscogee Creativity featuring Joy Harjo—acclaimed poet, musician, and the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate. This event is presented in partnership with Middle Georgia State University, the Ocmulgee Mounds Association, the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the National Humanities Center.

Free

National History Day Georgia State Contest

LaGrange College 601 Broad St., LaGrange, GA, United States

Georgia 6-12 grade students will gather to present their History Day projects and compete their way toward the National History Day contest in College Park, Maryland in June.

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