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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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. This project aims to grant Bulloch County's fallen African Americans the place they deserve in the community's […]
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 […]
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 […]
Come and see an exhibit in honor of more than two centuries of Cherokee-Moravian cultural exchange.
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 […]
