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Worcester v. Georgia

Worcester v. Georgia Suggested Readings Tim Alan Garrison, The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002). Jill Norgren, The Cherokee Cases: The Confrontation of Law and Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996). William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton, N.J.: […]

Helen Douglas Mankin born

Suggested Reading Lorraine Nelson Spritzer, The Belle of Ashby Street: Helen Douglas Mankin and Georgia Politics (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982).

William T. Sherman Captures Atlanta

Suggested Readings Anne J. Bailey, War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2003). Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (New […]

The Camilla Massacre

Learn More – The Camilla Massacre Suggested Readings Lee W. Formwalt, “The Camilla Massacre of 1868: Racial Violence as Political Propaganda,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 71 (fall 1987). Lee W. Formwalt, “Petitioning Congress for Protection: A Black View of Reconstruction at the Local Level,” Georgia Historical Quarterly73 (summer 1989). Susan E. O’Donovan, “Philip Joiner, Black Republican […]

The Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition

The Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Suggested Readings Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915(New York: Oxford University Press, 1983). Bruce Harvey and Lynn Watson-Powers, “The Eyes of the World Are Upon Us”: A Look at the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895,” Atlanta History 39 (fall/winter 1995): 5-11. […]