Georgia Humanities

Georgia Archives Lunch and Learn: "History of the Candler Field Museum and the Youth Aviation Program"
2017-12-08 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA, 30260, United States
Georgia Archives Lunch and Learn Program

The Georgia Archives Lunch and Learn program will be “The History of the Candler Field Museum and the Youth Aviation Program: Where History Comes Alive and Education Lights the Future” by Dave Moffett and Scott Coile.

Lunch and Learn: Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Planning for Personal Records
2017-11-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA, 30260, United States
Lunch and Learn: Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Planning for Personal Records
Christine Garrett, Electronic Records Manager at the Georgia Archives, will present “Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Planning for Personal Records.” She will discuss identifying essential records – records of historical and sentimental value to families. She will also discuss records needed to recover from a disaster and how to protect records from a disaster before one happens.

Rome International Film Festival
2017-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | GA
Rome International Film Festival
In partnership with Georgia Humanities and the Chieftains Museum, the Rome International Film Festival will host a performance by Cherokee musician Tommy Wildcat, followed by a screening of Mankiller, a documentary exploring the legacy of Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nation’s first woman principal chief.

The United States and World War I
2017-11-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Thomas County Public Library, 201 N. Madison St., Thomasville, GA, 31792, United States
The United States and World War I
As part of its World War I: Lessons from 100 Years Ago initiative, the Thomas County Library will present a lecture by Professor Gale Whitehurst, of Thomas University, about how Germany’s geography influenced World War I and why the United States’s entrance into the war became so crucial.
This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
2017-11-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 111 James P Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA, 30314, United States
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement author talk and signing
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, of Harvard University, will discuss her book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement.

Almost Sunrise film screening
2017-11-06 19:00 - 22:00 | GA
Almost Sunrise film screening
This 2016 documentary shows the struggles of two Iraq combat veterans who walked across the USA to come to terms with their combat experiences. A panel discussion will follow, featuring Nick Irving, a veteran and author of the autobiography The Reaper; Sarah Cook, associate dean of Georgia State University’s honors college; and Major General Maria Britt. Event is free and open to the public.
This event is sponsored by the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University.

World War I and the Movies
2017-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Thomas County Public Library, 201 N. Madison St., Thomasville, GA, 31792, United States
World War I and the Movies
As part of its World War I: Lessons from 100 Years Ago initiative, Thomas County Public Library will host a screening of The Road to Glory, a 1936 film depicting the realities of trench warfare in France during World War I. A discussion will follow the screening.
This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

War Is Hell; Coming Home Can Be Harder
2017-11-06 13:30 - 14:45 | GA
War Is Hell; Coming Home Can Be Harder
Author and veteran Nick Irving will lead a panel discussion about the ethics of reintegrating people returning from war. Panelists will include Sue Verhoef of the Atlanta History Center and Mark Eister, director of military outreach at Georgia State University and Perimeter College at Georgia State. Event is free and open to the public.
The event is sponsored by the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University.

King Cotton in the Georgia Piedmont
2017-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 | GA
King Cotton in the Georgia Piedmont
The cotton industry dictated the present-day Morgan County as we know now, from the landscape to commercial downtown businesses, the historic homes, culture, and pace of life. This symposium will present the history and importance of the cotton industry in Morgan County and discuss the place of the industry in a wider southern context. Historian Brad Rice will present a local history, and keynote speaker Dr. Scott Nesbit will speak on the transition to sharecropping. The afternoon will also include the premier of the Morgan County Landmarks Society’s Voices from the Fields, a short film in which cotton field workers discuss how the work shaped their lives and families. A panel discussion will focus on the present and future of the industry. A light reception will follow.
This project is supported by a Georgia Humanities grant.

26th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA
2017-11-04 - 2017-11-20 | Marcus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, GA, 30338, United States
26th Edition of the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta
For more than 25 years, the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta has offered a two-week literary extravaganza featuring an exciting lineup of the year’s most exceptional authors. Each year, thousands of book lovers come together to listen, meet, and interact with their favorite authors in a variety of forums, including panel discussions, author meet-and-greets, a community read, children’s activities, and much more.
Keynote authors include Justice Stephen Breyer (The Court and the World); Walter Isaacson (Leonardo da Vinci); Jeff Rossen (Rossen to the Rescue); Reza Aslan (God: A Human History); Joy Mangano (Inventing Joy); Dave Barry, Adam Mansbach, and Alan Zweibel (For This We Left Egypt?); Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush (Sisters First); Dan Rather (What Unites Us); and Al Franken (Giant of the Senate).
This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Documenting the Present: Archival Conscience and Proactive Archives
2017-11-02 - 2017-11-03 | Brasstown Valley Resort, 6321 U.S. 76, Young Harris, GA, 30582, United States
Documenting the Present: Archival Conscience and Proactive Archives
The 2017 Society of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting will reflect on the particular challenges archives face with contemporary material, and how archivists preserve our present cultural environment for future generations.
Anne Gilliland, of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles, will deliver the keynote lecture and Morna Gerrard, of Georgia State University, will deliver the plenary lecture.
Click here to register.
This is a community event.

L'Chaim Sandy Springs! A Toast to Jewish Participation in Our City
2017-11-01 - 2018-01-05 | GA
L’Chaim Sandy Springs! A Toast to Jewish Participation in Our City
Heritage Sandy Springs is partnering with local Jewish organizations and the Breman Museum to collect, archive, and preserve the Jewish history of Sandy Springs. A traveling exhibition explores the community’s founding and the growth of Jewish life and culture in the city. The exhibition is on display at Temple Sinai through January 5, 2018.
This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Race and Understanding: A Conversation with Patrick Phillips
2017-10-23 13:00 - 14:00 | JSAC Coffehouse, Augusta University (Summerville), 1120 15th St., Augusta, GA, 30912, United States
Race and Understanding: A Conversation with Patrick Phillips
Augusta University will host Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, for a reading and reception as part of the Sand Hills Writers Series.
This event is supported by a Georgia Humanities grant.

Revolutionary Perspectives
2017-10-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Savannah History Museum, 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Savannah, GA, 31401, United States
Revolutionary Perspectives
As part of the Coastal Heritage Society’s Revolutionary Perspectives lecture series, the Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters will perform a ring shout, an African American religious ritual involving dance, call-and-response singing, and percussion. First performed by enslaved Africans, the ring shout affirms oneness with the Spirit and with ancestors as well as community cohesiveness.
This event will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. The performance will begin at 7:00 p.m.
This event is supported by a Georgia Humanities grant.

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War author talk
2017-10-16 18:30 - 20:30 | GA
Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War author talk
The Rose Library will host a reading by and discussion with John Morrow Jr., author of Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality.
This event is in conjunction with A Question of Manhood: African American and World War I, a Rose Library exhibition commemorating the centennial of World War I and celebrating the African American citizen-soldiers who were denied full access to the promises of democracy.
This is a community event.

Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame Dinner
2017-10-10 18:00 - 21:00 | InterContinental Buckhead Hotel, 3315 Peachtree Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA, 30326, United States
Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame Dinner
The Atlanta Press Club will celebrate new Hall of Fame inductees and the impact good journalism has made in Georgia and throughout the nation.
Inductees include Fred Kalil, a long-time sports anchor; Aubrey Morris, the first news director of WSB Radio; Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for commentary and former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s editorial page; and Doug Blackmon, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.
The reception will begin at 6:00 p.m., and dinner and the awards program will follow at 7:00 p.m.
Click here to purchase tickets.

Revolutionary Perspectives
2017-10-03 18:30 - 20:00 | GA
Revolutionary Perspectives
As part of the Coastal Heritage Society’s Revolutionary Perspectives lecture series, Solomon K. Smith, professor of history at Georgia Southern University, will present a lecture about Lieutenant Colonel James Grant and the cause of the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758-1761).
This event will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m.
This event is supported by a Georgia Humanities grant.

The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, 1940-1975
2017-09-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, 1940-1975
Emory University’s Woodruff Library will celebrate the contributions of Beat writers, poets, and artists with the exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, 1940-1975, which will draw from collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, including the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library.
The exhibition will be on view September 28 through May 15.

Special events
Poetry reading and book signing with Anne Waldman
Oxford Road Presentation Room
September 27, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Creativity Conversation with Anne Waldman
Rose Library
September 28, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Opening reception
September 28, 6:30 p.m.

World War I and America
2017-09-28 18:30 - 19:30 | GA
World War I and America — Veterans panel discussion
Clayton State University library will host a panel discussion on America’s role in World War I. Veterans of such recent conflicts as Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan will bring their experiences to bear on the topic and examine the lasting legacies of World War I.
This project is sponsored by the Library of America, which has created a reader for the project, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The themes of this discussion include “Why fight?,” “Race and WWI,” and “America on the world stage.” Readings are available here.
This is a community event.

From Race to Renewal: It's Not All Black and White
2017-09-28 18:00 - 20:30 | Center for Civil and Human Rights, 100 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., Atlanta, GA, 30313, United States
From Race to Renewal: It’s Not All Black and White
Author Arnie Sidman will discuss From Race to Renewal: It’s Not All Black and White at the Center for Civil and Human Rights.
This is a community event.

The Harvest sneak peek and discussion
2017-09-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 111 James P Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA, 30314, United States
The Harvest preview and discussion
Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Slavery By Another Name, will discuss his new documentary film, The Harvest.
The Harvest tells the story of the struggle to integrate public schools in one small Mississippi Delta town as seen through the eyes of black and white children born at the height of the civil rights struggle and the transformation they and all of America would undergo over the next 50 years.
Using archival film and footage shot by Blackmon and filmmaker Sam Pollard over the past two decades, The Harvest tracks the experiences of children born when Mississippi was aflame from 1964’s Freedom Summer, and follows as they enter school six years later in the first mixed-race classrooms in Mississippi, rise through youth and into adulthood, and then emerge as leaders of their communities.
For many, the benefits of these integrated classrooms were enormous, yet within two decades, most schools in racially diverse areas were once again deeply segregated. The Harvest asks a simple question: Why did this happen?

Revolutionary Perspectives
2017-09-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Savannah History Museum, 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Savannah, GA, 31401, United States
Revolutionary Perspectives
As part of the Coastal Heritage Society’s Revolutionary Perspectives lecture series, historical interpreter Ben Wheeler will present a lecture on diplomacy between colonial Georgia and Spanish Florida.
This event will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m.
This event is supported by a Georgia Humanities grant.

Remembering the 100th Anniversary of Georgia's Involvement in World War I
2017-09-23 10:30 - 12:00 | Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA, 30260, United States
Remembering the 100th Anniversary of Georgia’s Involvement in World War I
At the annual meeting of the Friends of Georgia Archives and History, presentations by Jamil Zainaldin, of Georgia Humanities, and Lamar Veatch, of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission, will focus on the centennial of America’s entry into World War I and Georgia’s involvement in the conflict.
Zainaldin will present “Georgia Stories from the Great War” and Veatch will discuss the work of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission and his efforts to document all of Georgia’s World War I monuments.
The program will begin after refreshments and a short business meeting. Admission is free for FOGAH members and $5 for nonmembers.
This is a community event.

The Vietnam War
2017-09-17 - 2017-09-28 | GA
The Vietnam War
Tune in to Georgia Public Broadcasting for The Vietnam War, a new documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This 10-part, 18-hour documentary series will tell the epic story of one of the most controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Historic resources include rarely seen archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th century, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

Episode One: “Deja Vu” (1858-1961)
Airs: September 17
Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided into two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem’s untested regime in the South.
Episode Two: “Riding the Tiger” (1961-1963)
Airs: September 18
President Kennedy inspires idealistic young Americans to serve their country and wrestles with involvement in South Vietnam. As the Diem regime faces a growing communist insurgency and widespread Buddhist protests, a grave political crisis unfolds.
Episode Three: “The River Styx” (1964-1965)
Airs: September 19
Fearing Saigon’s collapse, President Johnson escalates America’s military commitment, authorizing sustained bombing of the North and deploying ground troops in the South.
Episode Four: “Resolve” (January 1966-June 1967)
Airs: September 20
As an antiwar effort builds in the United States, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines discover that the war they are being asked to fight in Vietnam is nothing like their fathers’ war.
Episode Five: “This Is What We Do” (July 1967-December 1967)
Airs: September 21
Hanoi lays plans for a massive surprise offensive, and the Johnson administration reassures the American public that victory is in sight.
Episode Six: “Things Fall Apart” (January 1968-July 1968)
Airs: September 24
On the eve of the Tết holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch a surprise attack on cities and military bases throughout the South, casting grave doubt on President Johnson’s promise that there is “light at the end of the tunnel.”
Episode Seven: “The Veneer of Civilization” (June 1968-May 1969)
Airs: September 25
Public support for the war declines. After police battle with demonstrators in the streets of Chicago, Richard Nixon wins the presidency, promising law and order at home and peace overseas.
Episode Eight: “The History of the World” (April 1969-May 1970)
Airs: September 26
President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. News breaks of an unthinkable massacre committed by American soldiers, and an incursion into Cambodia reignites antiwar protests with tragic consequences.
Episode Nine: “A Disrespectful Loyalty” (May 1970-March 1973)
Airs: September 27
South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos suffer a terrible defeat. Massive U.S. airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive. After being re-elected in a landslide, Nixon announces Hanoi has agreed to a peace deal. American prisoners of war will finally come home — to a bitterly divided country.
Episode Ten: “The Weight of Memory” (March 1973 onward)
Airs: September 28
While the Watergate scandal rivets Americans’ attention and forces President Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another in a brutal civil war. When hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese troops pour into the South, Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses. For the next 40 years, Americans and Vietnamese from all sides search for healing and reconciliation.

5th Annual Columbus Children's Book Festival
2017-09-16 10:00 - 16:00 | Columbus Public Library, 3000 Macon Road, Columbus, Georgia, 31906
5th Annual Columbus Children’s Book Festival
Now in its fifth year, the Columbus Children’s Book Festival is a celebration of children’s literature showcasing a variety of award-winning authors and illustrators. Free to the public, the festival includes author presentations, art demonstrations, storytelling, puppetry, musical performances, early literacy activities, and autograph sessions. Confirmed headliners include such #1 New York Times bestselling authors/artists as Pinkalicious author Victoria Kann, Big Nate author/illustrator Lincoln Pierce, Bad Kitty creator Nick Bruel, and multicultural author and Caldecott recipient Yuyi Morales. Books will be for sale, as will food, beverages, and snacks.
This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

The Great War Over Here: Stories from the Home Front
2017-09-16 09:00 - 16:30 | National Archives at Atlanta, 5780 Jonesboro Rd., Morrow, GA, 30260, United States
The Great War Over Here: Stories from the Home Front
Hosted by the National Archives at Atlanta, this symposium draws on the approximately 10,000 cubic feet of records related to the home front during World War I. These records document the federal government’s attempts at food conservation, promotion of the war effort and the purchase of Liberty Bonds, as well as intelligence investigations by the U.S. Navy. Other historical records tell the story of the 24 million men who registered for the Selective Service and those who were prosecuted and incarcerated for violating the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917. This symposium will feature scholars whose publications are based on these holdings.
Pre-registration is required. Click here to register online, or email atlanta.archives[at]nara.gov.
This event is supported by Georgia Humanities.

Hometown Teams in Monroe
2017-09-16 08:00 - 2017-10-28 17:00 | Monroe Culture and Heritage Museum, Monroe, GA, 30655, United States
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America exhibition
This Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition explores what sports and “hometown teams” mean to Americans, Georgians, and local communities.
Opening Ceremony
September 16, 10:00 a.m.
Monroe Museum
Open Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., and Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Lunch and Learn: Georgia World War I Centennial Commission
2017-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA, 30260, United States
Lunch and Learn: Georgia World War I Centennial Commission
Lamar Veatch, of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission, will highlight some of the key contributions Georgians made to World War I and the commission’s work to document them, and archives staff will discuss the archive’s World War I-related holdings.

SlowExposures 2017, Unplugged
2017-09-14 13:00 - 2017-09-17 15:00 | R.F. Strickland Building, 144 Main St., Concord, GA, 30206, United States
SlowExposures 2017, Unplugged: A Juried Exhibition Celebrating Photography of the Rural South
Since 2003, SlowExposures has celebrated photography of the rural South. This nationally-recognized photography exhibition was honored with a Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities in 2015.
This year the exhibition will celebrate Inspired Georgia, edited by Judson Mitcham, Michael David Murphy, and Karen L. Paty. Inspired Georgia is a copublication of UGA Press, Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Georgia Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Opening reception: Inspired Georgia with a poetry reading by Judson Mitcham, Georgia’s poet laureate
Saturday, September 16, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Whiskey Bonding Barn, Molena
This is a community event.

Memories of Hardman Farm
2017-09-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Hardman Farm Visitor Center, 143 Highway 17 , Sautee Nacoochee, GA, 30571, United States
Memories of Hardman Farm
The Friends of Hardman Farm will host the debut of Memories of Hardman Farm, a new short film presenting memories of the farm from the people who knew it best.
This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
