The Georgian Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) was formed on November 8, 1895.
Initially, the UDC worked both to maintain the beliefs of the lost cause, a heroic interpretation of the Civil War…
Georgian novelist Philip Lee Williams A distant flame (2004) chronicles the struggle of an old man, Charlie Merrill, to make sense of his memories and his life. Williams' most ambitious and successful novel to date, A distant…
Readers' Favorite announces the review of the book Fiction - Historical - Event / Era "Katarina's Dark Shadow" by MJ Krause-Chivers, currently available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098LY2Z3N.
Readers' Favorite is one of the…
The presence of Union General William T. Sherman in Georgia during the Civil War (1861-1865) has inspired many novels. These fictional tales, some obscure and others quite significant, focused on figures taken from the Atlanta…
Mildred Lewis Rutherford is best known for her Confederate commemorative activities and for her books on the South.
She has written twenty-nine widely read books and pamphlets, including The South in history and literature…
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips was the first great historian of the South and the South slavery, and his work has attracted as much attention and stirred up as much controversy as that of any historian in the South.
Phillips was…
Rebecca Latimer Felton, who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four, has lived a life that is as full as it is long. A tireless writer and activist for progressive-era reforms, particularly women's rights, she was the first woman…
One of the most famous American artists of the 19th century, Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins was an African-American musician and composer. Blind from birth and born into slavery, Wiggins became famous for his piano virtuosity.…
Margaret Mitchell is the author of carried away by the wind, one of the most popular books of all time.
The novel was published in 1936 and sold over a million copies in its first six months, a phenomenal feat considering it…
Ellis Merton Coulter, a University of Georgia professor and Southern historian, has helped shape the Southern public's understanding of its heritage in general and that of Georgia in particular.
He taught at the flagship…
Thomas RR Cobb was one of the foremost legal authorities in antebellum Georgia and the most outspoken advocates of slavery and secession from the Union. He fought for the Confederacy as a brigadier general and was killed at the…
Brigadier General Count Casimir (or Kazimierz) Pulaski came from Poland to fight in the American Revolution (1775-1783). Frequently hailed as the founder of the American Cavalry, he served in the Continental Army from late 1777…
Henry W. Grady, the "spokesman for the New South", served as editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s.
A member of Atlanta's Democratic political leadership circle, Grady used his office and influence to promote a…
British actress and writer Fanny Kemble's infamous entanglement with Georgia began in the 1830s when she married Pierce Mease Butler, who in 1836 inherited her grandfather's inheritance, including hundreds of enslaved Africans…
Savannah's notable city plan is distinguished from those of earlier colonial cities by its repeated pattern of connected neighborhoods, multiple plazas, streets, and designed expansion into city-held land (the common). It is…
The Habershams – James and his sons, James Jr., Joseph and John – played an important role in the economic and political life of colonial, revolutionary and national Georgia.
Their connection to Georgian history began with…
Noted for their contributions to the intellectual life of 19th-century Georgia, the LeContes originally prospered as rice and cotton planters in Liberty County and later gained recognition for their scientific work.
In 1787,…
The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia's colonial period, the Creeks outnumbered European settlers and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. It…
joseph Addison Turner was a writer, editor, publisher, attorney, and planter. He is best known for publishing The compatriota weekly newspaper produced from its Putnam County planting during Civil war (1861-65). Despite his…