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From the time he became mayor in 1937 until he retired in 1961, William Hartsfield dedicated himself to the problems and promise of the city of Atlanta. Published in 1978, his biography is a chronicle of how Hartsfield strove to fulfill the destiny of Atlanta, and in doing so, left his mark on the city forever.

Published in 1965, this biography of Atticus Green Haygood (1839-1896) reveals a man whose personal faith led him to become one of the foremost southern advocates of liberal racial policies. From 1875 to 1884 he served as president of Emory College where he continued his efforts of social reform.

First published in 1956, this book traces the progress of the Cherokee people, beginning with their native social and political establishments, their gradual assimilation into "white civilization," and eventual development of their own hybrid culture in the mountainous areas of the South.

Published in 1966, this documentary history examines the history of Georgia from the first appearance of Spanish explorers to the hardships of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dolly Blount Lamar was the daughter of James Blount (1837-1903), who served as U.S. Representative from the sixth district of Georgia for twenty years. Published in 1952, this memoir portrays life inside a politically prominent southern family from Reconstruction to the New Deal.

Published in 1949, this selection of letters between Robert Mackay, and his wife, Eliza Anne Mackay, provide unique insight into the life of a southern merchant during the early part of the nineteenth century. The Mackay's correspondence covers business, friendships, social life, and family, in addition to historical events unfolding at the time.

Published in 1951, Gilbert's memoir details his career as a member of the Georgia State House of Representatives and as a Georgia Supreme Court judge. He offers legal commentary on important cases that he encountered during his career and outlines his views on the role of government.

English traces the development of adult education programs of the College in the Country program. It began in 1949, when West Georgia College chaplain J. Carson Pritchard was asked to conduct Bible study classes in rural Georgia. The classes evolved into a lecture series on a variety of topics and spread to other communities.

First published in 1944, this is a detailed survey of twenty-four distinguished periodicals published in antebellum Georgia. Lists magazines published during the time, including dates, places of publication, and names of editors and publishers. Plus more than nine hundred footnotes.

Published in 1962, this is a biography of John Forsyth (1780-1841) who was Governor of Georgia and Secretary of State under both Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Alvin Laroy Duckett chronicles Forsyth's achievements portraying him as one of Georgia's most versatile and accomplished politicians.

E. Merton Coulter's biography of William Montague Browne portrays the life of an Irish journalist living in the north who moved south to adopt the Confederate cause. During the Civil War he served as Director of Conscription in Georgia, aide-de-camp to President Davis, and brigadier general. Browne also took part in the defense of Savannah.

These nine essays originally appeared in the Georgia Historical Quarterly and range in subject from a group of Arcadians expelled from Nova Scotia that settled in colonial Georgia to the origins of the University of Georgia.

Published in 1972, this biography examines Daniel Lee (1802-1890), an agriculturist considered to be a forefather to today's scientific farming. Lee dedicated himself the advancement of farming through the diversification of crops and the use of scientific methods and was appointed the first professor of agriculture at the University of Georgia.

Published in 1964, this biography of Joseph Vallence Bevan tells the story of Georgia's first official historian. Bevan edited the Augusta Chronicle & Georgia Gazette, studied law, served on the Georgia legislature, and became coeditor and owner of the Savannah Georgian.

Starting in 1949, John W. Bonner Jr. compiled an annual annotated bibliography of books by Georgia writers for the Georgia Review. Published in 1966, this volume contains sixteen years of publications by native-born Georgian authors and authors who had lived in the state for at least five years.

Published in 1961, Georgia Journeys traces the development of Georgia with a particular emphasis on the lives of the ordinary men and women who helped establish the colony. Sarah B. Gober Temple and Kenneth Coleman use primary accounts to reveal the many problems and challenges encountered during its development.

Published in 1995, this volume examines the Bray Associates, a philanthropic society founded by the missionary Thomas Bray. The Bray Associates was the parent organization of the Georgia Trustees, the founding and original governing body of the Georgia Colony.

Published in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves.

States that photography's influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render identity and history homogeneous and reproducible. This title argues for the centrality of photography to writers commonly thought of as hostile to the camera.

Published in 1967, the letters in this volume reveal the experiences of four Georgia soldiers who served under Stonewall Jackson. From their correspondence emerges a vivid description of a soldier's daily life in the Civil War. Austin's historical narrative provides the reader with a context for the events discussed.

A simultaneously ecocritical and comparative study, New World Poetics plumbs the earthly depth and social breadth of the poetry of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott, three of the Americas most ambitious and epic-minded poets. In Whitmans call for a poetry of New World possibility, Nerudas invocation of an American love, and Walcotts investment in the poetic ironies of an American epic, the adamic imagination of their poetry does not reinvent the mythical Garden that stands before historys beginnings but instead taps the foundational powers of language before a natural world deeply imbued with the traces of human time. Theirs is a postlapsarian Adam seeking a renewed sense of place in a biocentric and cross-cultural New World through language and natures capacity for regeneration in the wake of human violence and suffering.The book introduces the environmental history of the Americas and its relationship to the foundation of American and Latin American studies, explores its relevance to each poets ambition to recuperate the New Worlds lost histories, and provides a transnational poetics of understanding literary influence and textual simultaneity in the Americas. The study provides much needed in-depth ecocritical readings of the major poems of the three poets, insisting on the need for thoughtful regard for the challenge to human imagination and culture posed by natures regenerative powers; nuanced appreciation for the difficulty of balancing the demands of social justice within the context of deep time; and the symptomatic dangers as well as healing potential of human self-consciousness in light of global environmental degradation.

This collection of short stories has characters in the middle of their lives when things fall apart. Jobs, hopes, and marriages disintegrate while they seek strategies and explanations.

Features five essays that explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. This work focuses on the diverse and changing ways that law-makers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.

Gibson describes the colorful history of the islands and the various stages in their formation and modification. General information about tides, artesian wells, winds, climate, and other natural phenomena are included.

Host to over 100 species of reptiles and amphibians, the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, USA, is an intensely studied area of herpetological ecology. This guide is a summary of basic information on the site's varied herpetofauna, from taxonomy and distribution to behaviour and habitats.

In the field of contemporary literary studies, Roland Barthes remains an inestimably influential figure-perhaps more influential in America than in his native France. The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes proposes a new method of viewing Barthes's critical enterprise.