Georgia Humanities

American Soldiers during the Holocaust: Perception and Representation in Newspapers and Museums
2024-11-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Augusta University, 1120 15th St., Augusta, GA, 30912, United States
August University professors Stacey Thompson, David Bulla, Hubert Van Tull, and James Garvey will discuss representations of the Holocaust in media and museums and the experiences of local veterans who liberated the concentration camps.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Spring Place & Oochgeelogy: Moravian Missions Among the Cherokee
2024-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Funk Heritage Center, 7300 Reinhardt College Cir, Waleska, Georgia, 30183
Presented by Wanda Patterson, “Spring Place & Oochgeelogy” tells the dramatic story of the Moravians, the first missionary group to be permitted to establish schools and mission stations in the Cherokee Nation. 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 Moravian missionaries and the Cherokee at the Spring Place and Oochgeelogy mission stations in present-day Chatsworth and Calhoun, Georgia.
Wanda Patterson is a charter member of the Georgia Trail of Tears Association. On behalf of the chapter, she edited a volume of poetry by Cherokee writer John Rollin Ridge, and she serves on the Trail of Tears Speakers Staff.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

We Neighbors Would Meet Together: Oothcaloga Moravian Mission, Integration, and Cherokee Identity
2024-11-23 | Funk Heritage Center, 7300 Reinhardt College Cir, Waleska, Georgia, 30183
The Funk Heritage Center opens a new temporary exhibit, We Neighbors Would Meet Together, interpreting the history and influence of the Oothcaloga Moravian Mission (near present-day Calhoun) on Cherokee integration, nationalism, and sovereignty in the nineteenth century. The exhibit is also designed to raise public awareness and generate support for the Oothcaloga Mission God’s Acre and Stephens-Morrow Family Cemetery Preservation Project-a major historic preservation project of a vulnerable Trail of Tears site.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

“The Water Spirit Will Take Us Home”: Igbo Landing in African and African-American Art Exhibit (Tubman Museum)
2024-11-24 09:00 - 2025-03-31 17:00 | Tubman Museum, 310 Cherry Street, Macon, GA, 31201, United States
A joint project between the Tubman Museum and Wesleyan College, this exhibit examines how the events at Igbo Landing have been preserved and mythologized in African-American folklore. It will analyze their influence on literature, art, and cultural expressions, including works by Beverly Buchanan. The exhibit is currently on display at Tubman Museum.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

“The Water Spirit Will Take Us Home”: Igbo Landing in African and African-American Art Exhibit (Wesleyan College Leadership Lab)
2025-01-07 09:00 - 2025-03-07 17:00 | Wesleyan College Leadership Lab, 522 Cherry Street, Macon, 31201, United States
A joint project between the Tubman Museum and Wesleyan College, this exhibit examines how the events at Igbo Landing have been preserved and mythologized in African-American folklore. It will analyze their influence on literature, art, and cultural expressions, including works by Beverly Buchanan. The exhibit is currently on display at Wesleyan College Leadership Lab.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

We Are Here: The Augusta Jewish Museum Comes to Life Lecture
2025-01-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Augusta Municipal Building, Linda W. Beazley Room, 535 Telfair Street, Augusta, GA, 30901, United States
Members of the team that developed the displays for the Augusta Jewish Museum Education Center will present about the history of the museum and the importance of preserving these buildings for the entire community. Speakers include Dr. Jackie Cohen, Dr. Michael Cohen, and Dr. Judith Giri. They will give an overview of each of the five main areas with emphasis on the Holocaust exhibit. The conversation will be moderated by Angela Russo, Augusta Jewish Museum Manager. Refreshments will be provided and tours of the museum will follow the
presentations.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Lonnie King, Jr. Exhibition
2025-01-28 10:00 - 2025-02-28 20:00 | Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
Georgia State University Special Collections presents a traveling exhibit based on the Lonnie King, Jr. Papers. This exhibit covers the life of Lonnie King, Jr. the Atlanta Student Movement, and legacy. The exhibit will be on display at the Auburn Avenue Research Library from January 28 through February 28. Thereafter, the exhibit will be on display at Georgia State University and travel through the Georgia Public Library Service traveling exhibit program.

This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Civil Sights Panel Discussion
2025-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta, GA, 30305, United States
Join the Atlanta History Center for a panel discussion about Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey through Atlanta’s National Treasure. Featured panelists include author Gene Kansas, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and Ed Bowen, moderated by Mike Jordan.
Civil Sights is a co-publication of Georgia Humanities and the University of Georgia Press.

Flannery O'Connor Centennial Series
2025-02-23 08:00 - 17:00 | The Beach Institute African American Cultural Center, 502 E. Harris Street, Savannah, GA, 31401, United States
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of acclaimed Georgia author Flannery O’Connor, the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Foundation and Museum will sponsor a series of talks and a panel discussion focused on race, religion, and disability in O’Connor’s work and in the modern South.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Heritage Works For Us StoryCorps Community Archive of Local History & World Cafe Town Hall
2025-02-28 08:00 - 2025-03-01 17:00 | Prospect Baptist Church Mission Hall, 1022 Johnson Road, Townsend, GA, 31331, 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 presented during the StoryCorps-A-Thon. This event will give the community the opportunity to address how they would like to approach these issues together through the medium of art and conversation.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Spring 2025 Grant Application Open
2025-03-03
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 programs can also be virtual!
Visit our Grants page to learn more and access our grant application.
Contact grants manager, Jerald Crook, with questions at jcrook[@]georgiahumanities.org.

"So They Might Be Known" Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion
2025-03-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Hay House, 934 Georgia Avenue, Macon, GA, 31201, 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 in the House’s narrative and what is shared with visitors, preservationists, school groups, and more. The exhibit will provide a more inclusive and complete history of Hay House. An opening reception will be held and coincide with one of our biannual Hay Days, a free event open to the public twice a year. The opening will also feature a panel discussion on urban slavery in Macon with scholars Dr. Rachanice Candy Tate and Mrs. Muriel M. Jackson. Once installed, “So They Might Be Known” will be on display indefinitely.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Spring 2025 Grant Application Preliminary Deadline (Optional)
2025-03-17
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 programs can also be virtual!
Applicants who would like detailed feedback on their project proposal may submit their application draft to our grants portal by the end of business on this day. Please allow a two to three days for review turnaround. Contact grants manager, Jerald Crook, with questions at jcrook[@]georgiahumanities.org.
Visit our Grants page to learn more and access our grant application.

Holocaust Lecture Series
2025-03-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Augusta University, 1120 15th St., Augusta, GA, 30912, 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.

"More than a Name: Commemorating Bulloch's African American Fallen Soldiers of WWI" Exhibit Opening
2025-03-24 08:00 - 2025-08-01 17:00 | Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University, 1400 Southern Dr Building 208, Statesboro, GA, 30458, 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. This project aims to grant Bulloch County’s fallen African Americans the place they deserve in the community’s collective memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the First World War. The exhibit soft opens on this day with an accompanying lecture taking place on April 1, 2025.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Spring 2025 Grant Application Deadline
2025-03-31
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 programs can also be virtual!
Today is the final deadline for this cycle.
Visit our Grants page to learn more and access our grant application.
Contact grants manager, Jerald Crook, with questions at jcrook[@]georgiahumanities.org.

More than a Name: Commemorating Bulloch's African American Fallen Soldiers of WWI Exhibit (Lecture)
2025-04-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Interdisciplinary Academic Building at Georgia Southern University, 950 I.T. Drive, Statesboro, 30458, 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 community’s collective memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the First World War. On this day Dr. Amanda Nagel will present a lecture that expands on the exhibit’s content.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

"We Neighbors Should Meet Together" Exhibit
2025-04-05 09:00 - 2025-06-28 16:00 | Funk Heritage Center, 7300 Reinhardt College Cir, Waleska, Georgia, 30183
Come and see an exhibit in honor of more than two centuries of Cherokee-Moravian cultural exchange.

Spring Place & Oochgeelogy: Moravian Missions Among the Cherokee
2025-04-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Funk Heritage Center, 7300 Reinhardt College Cir, Waleska, Georgia, 30183
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 Moravian missionaries and the Cherokee at the Spring Place and Oochgeelogy mission stations in present-day Chatworth and Calhoun, GA.

Ocmulgee Rising: A Celebration of Muscogee Creativity with Joy Harjo
2025-04-24 11:00 - 12:30 | 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.

National History Day Georgia State Contest
2025-04-26 08:00 - 17:00 | LaGrange College, 601 Broad St., LaGrange, GA, 30240, 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.

Building Community Hubs: The Vital Role of Local Atlanta Businesses in Asian American Cultural Exchange
2025-05-03 13:30 - 15:30 | Emory University Goizueta Business School, 1300 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322
Join the Georgia Asian American Community Archives Initiative for a panel featuring three local Atlanta area community advocates who will share their experiences and reflections on the role of Asian American businesses in fostering a sense of community and belonging.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

African American Education in Jim Crow Era Brunswick: Creating a Community in a Segregated City
2025-05-24 10:00 - 18:00 | Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 208 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, Georgia, 31520
Presented by the Coastal African American Historic Preservation Commission, a new exhibit explores segregated education in Brunswick from Reconstruction to 1970. The community is also invited to participate in a corresponding “Scan Day” that allows them to bring important materials to the event that they would like to have digitally preserved.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Reading and Discussion of "Queen Bess"
2025-05-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Delta Flight Museum, 1060 Delta Blvd. Building B, Atlanta, GA, 30354, United States
Join Théâtre du Rêve for a workshop presentation of Queen Bess: A Bessie Coleman Story, a new play by Amina S. McIntyre commissioned in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Coleman’s death (April 30, 2026). Bessie Coleman lived in the early 1900s as a mixed-race Black and Native American woman. Due to Jim Crow restrictions and gender discrimination in the U.S., she earned her pilot’s license (the first ever earned by a Black woman or a Native American, and the first international license earned by any American) by teaching herself French and then traveling to France to study. More than 100 years later, her resourcefulness and accomplishments tell a story that continues to challenge and inspire.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

African American Education in Jim Crow Era Brunswick: Creating a Community in a Segregated City
2025-06-21 10:00 - 18:00 | Selden Park, 100 Genoa Martin Dr, Brunswick, GA, 31520

Pathways to Preservation: Georgia Black History Trails
2025-06-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Greater Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 3000 12th Avenue, Columbus, Georgia, 31904
Join our partners at the Chipley Historical Center for a statewide gathering of grassroots organizations, preservationists, historians, educators, archivists, and citizens coming together to launch the Georgia Black History Trail Initiative.
This community session marks the inaugural effort to connect and preserve Black heritage sites, stories, and legacies across the state.

Introduction of Amaru’s Adventures with Mississippian and Mesoamerican Art
2025-06-23 08:00 - 2025-06-26 12:00 | Annie Belle Clark Elementary School, Tifton, Georgia, 31793
The Maya Heritage Center is offering an educational and artistic program designed to introduce Tift County students in grades K–8 to their Mesoamerican heritage while also exploring Mississippian culture and Indigenous history in the Southeast.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

NHD Georgia "Essentials" Mini Workshop
2025-07-15 08:00 - 2025-07-17 12:00 | Virtual Program
The NHD Georgia “Essentials” workshop focuses on introducing (or refreshing) the fundamental elements of National History Day, including structure, components, and classroom adaptability. The workshop will cover the 25-26 National History Day theme, research tools and analysis, and category/project completion.
During this online workshop, time will also be dedicated to the creation of tools teachers can use in their classroom to help their students with what is often the most difficult step in a history day project: getting started. The goal is for teachers to leave the workshop comfortable with the program, its components, and the theme, and ready to discuss it with their students.

Quilts, Collages, & Driftwood
2025-07-19 10:00 - 13:00 | Union Brothers and Sisters Mission Hall, GA HWY 99 N Meridian, Meridian, Georgia, 31305
Join Heritage Works Inc. and the Original Hudson Homes Society for a hands-on art and preservation workshop in the community of Meridian. Bring fabrics, magazines, or mementos to contribute to this unique community storytelling project.

Unsung Heroes: African-American Soldiers in Sherman's Army
2025-08-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Switzer Library, 266 Roswell St NE, Marietta, Georgia, 30060
For generations, history books have overlooked a crucial truth: African-American soldiers served alongside Sherman’s Army during the Civil War. Join the Cobb County Public Libraries for a series of presentations by local historian Brad Quinlin that explore the names, faces, and experiences of these forgotten soldiers. A companion exhibit will also be on display.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
