Use the following sources to study Georgia history:
- Kenneth Coleman (ed), A History of Georgia 2nd Edition or later
- James C. Cobb, Georgia Odyssey 2nd Edition or later
- The New Georgia Encyclopedia website
Study Topics
- Georgia Geography
- Colonial Georgia
- Revolutionary Georgia
- Early Republic Georgia
- Antebellum Georgia
- Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia
- New South Georgia
- Depression/WWII Georgia
- Sun Belt Georgia
- Civil Rights Era Georgia
- Recent Georgia
- Georgia Women
Georgia Geography
- Fall Line
- 12 Parishes
- Original 8 Counties
- 161 Counties
- 16 Constitutional Counties
- Peach County
- "Bigger and Better Counties" Movement
- Milton County
- Campbell County
- 159 Counties
- Land Bounties
- Georgia Land Lottery
- State Capital
- Savannah
- Louisville
- Augusta
- Masters Golf Tournament
- Milledgeville
- Atlanta
- Macon
- Columbus
- Wiregrass
- Piedmont
- Appalachian Mountains
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Colonial Georgia
- Hernando de Soto
- Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón
- Guale
- Bloody Marsh
- Robert Montgomery
- Margravate of Azilia
- James Oglethorpe
- Tomochichi
- Savannah
- Sir John Percival
- Darien
- Scottish Highlanders
- Georgia Moravians
- Salzburgers
- Ebenezer
- Georgia Trustees
- Silk
- Indigo
- James Wright
- Muskogee Indians
- Lachlan McGillivray
- Deerskin Trade
- Georgia Malcontents
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Revolutionary Georgia
- Common's House Meeting 1765
- Tondee's Tavern Meeting 1774
- Button Gwinnett
- Lyman Hall
- George Walton
- Lachlan McIntosh
- Unicameral Legislature
- Georgia Revolutionary Council of Safety
- Noble W. Jones
- Thomas Brown
- Battle of Kettle Creek
- Elijah Clarke
- Battle of Briar Creek
- Siege of Savannah
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Early Republic Georgia
- William Few Jr.
- Abraham Baldwin
- Oconee War
- Transoconee Republic
- University of Georgia charter
- Chisholm v. Georgia
- Yazoo Land Fraud
- Fletcher v. Peck
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Gray v. Sanders
- New Echota
- Cohutta
- Cherokee Nation
- Patriot War
- First Seminole War
- Negro Fort
- William McIntosh
- Red Stick Creek Indians
- Lower Creek
- Second Seminole War
- Treaty of Indian Springs
- Creek Nation
- Treaty of Hopewell
- Third Seminole War
- Treaty of New Echota
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Antebellum Georgia
- Chief James Vann
- Hightower Trail
- Federal Road
- Sequoyah
- George Tassles
- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
- Chief Vann
- John Ross
- Elias Boudinot
- Cherokee Phoenix
- John Ridge
- Major Ridge
- Georgia Gold Rush
- Dahlonega
- Trail of Tears
- Winfield Scott
- Western and Atlantic Railroad
- Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
- Central Railway of Georgia
- Steamship Savannah 1819
- George Troup
- Wilson Lumpkin
- William H. Crawford
- John Forsyth
- John M. Berrien
- Jesse Mercer
- Hope Hull
- Augustin S. Clayton
- Charles Jones Jenkins
- Howell Cobb
- Alexander H. Stephens
- Robert Toombs
- Georgia Platform 1850
- Dr. Crawford Long
- anesthesia
- State Lunatic Asylum
- Central State Hospital
- Augustus B. Longstreet
- Georgia Scenes
- Ellen and William Croft
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Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia
- Joseph Brown
- Georgia Secession convention
- Georgia Unionists
- Battle of Chickamauga
- Kennesaw Mountain
- Atlanta Campaign
- March to the Sea
- Fort Pulaski
- CSS Jackson
- Andrews Raid
- "Texas" and "General"
- Andersonville Prison Camp
- 21st U.S. Colored Infantry
- 44th U.S. Colored Infantry
- Food and Thread Riots
- Cyrena Stone
- Deportation of Roswell Operatives
- Special Field Order 15
- Third Military District
- General John Pope
- Reconstruction Constitution
- General George Meade
- American Missionary Association
- Jubilee
- John Emory Bryant
- Rufus Bulloch
- Tunis Campbell
- Jefferson Franklin Long
- the Union League
- Conservative Party
- Camilla Massacre
- Bourbon Democrats
- Independent Democrat
- Bourbon Triumvirate
- John B. Gordon
- Alfred H. Colquitt
- Convict Lease System
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New South Georgia
- Henry Grady
- Atlanta Constitution
- Textile Industry
- New South Crusade
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Uncle Remus
- John S. Pemberton
- Coca Cola
- Rich's Department Store
- 1893 Piedmont Exposition
- Georgia Farmers' Alliance
- Georgia Colored Alliance
- Thomas Watson
- The Wool-Hat Boys
- Georgia Public Service Commission
- William Northern
- Hoke Smith
- Woodrow Wilson
- Clarke Howell
- Atlanta Race Riot
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Walter White
- Alonzo Herndon
- Leo Frank
- Mary Phagan
- William Joseph Simmons
- Stone Mountain 1915
- Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918
- Boll Weevil
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Depression/WWII Georgia
- Thomas Hardwick
- Walter F. George
- Richard Russell
- General Textile Strike of 1934
- Flying Squadrons
- Textile Workers Union
- Fort McPherson
- Gene Talmadge
- Walter Cocking
- Talmadge-Board of Regents Controversy
- Ellis Arnall
- Ed Rivers
- Rural Electrification Administration
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Works Progress Administration
- Bell Bomber Plant
- Herman Talmadge
- Three Governors Controversy
- Margaret Mitchell
- Gone with the Wind
- Robert E. Burns
- I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
- Arthur Raper
- Tenants of the Almighty
- Erskine Caldwell
- Tobacco Road
- Techwood Homes
- Warm Springs
- Little White House
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Sun Belt Georgia
- Chandler Field
- Delta Airlines
- Lockheed
- Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
- Charles Herty
- Turpentine
- Pulp Paper Industry
- Jesse Jewell
- Gainesville
- Poultry Processing Industry
- Samuel Tate
- Georgia Marble
- Kaolin Mining
- Granite Quarry
- Tufted Carpet Industry
- Dalton
- Tufted Bedspreads
- Shaw Industries
- Callaway Gardens
- Cable News Network
- Ted Turner
- Atlanta Crackers
- Atlanta Braves
- Atlanta Falcons
- Atlanta Fulton County Stadium
- Atlanta Hawks
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Civil Rights Era Georgia
- Sam Hose Lynching 1899
- Watkinsville Jail Lynching 1905
- W. E. B. DuBois
- Booker T. Washington
- Cotton States Exposition
- Atlanta Compromise
- disenfranchisement
- Grand Wizard Samuel Green
- Eli Cooper Lynching 1919
- Murder of Lemuel Penn
- Moore's Ford Lynching 1946
- John Wesley Dobbs
- Prince Hall Mason Voter Registration Drives
- Confederate battle flag
- Temple Bombing
- “Forward Atlanta”
- Koinonia Farm Bombing
- Sibley Commission
- Desegregation of UGA
- Charlayne Hunter
- Hamilton Holmes
- County Unit System
- Marvin Griffin
- Ernest Vandiver
- Carl Sanders
- Lester Maddox
- Jimmy Carter
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John Lewis
- Julian Bond
- Hosea Williams
- "Brotherhood March" in Forsyth County
- William B. Hartsfield
- "City too Busy to Hate"
- Ivan Allen, Jr.
- Sam Massell
- Maynard Jackson
- Andrew Young
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Recent Georgia
- MARTA
- Black Majority Cities
- Urban Renewal Projects
- Tom Murphy
- George Busbee
- Joe Frank Harris
- Buford Highway Immigrant Corridor
- Delta Chinese
- "Chambodia"
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Rodney King Riot
- Zell Miller
- Centennial Olympics
- Eric Robert Rudolph
- Richard Jewell
- Hope Scholarships
- Roy Barnes
- State Flag Controversy
- Illegal Aliens
- Sonny Purdue
- Shirley Franklin
- Georgia Drought
- Lake Lanier
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Georgia Women
- Coretta Scott King
- Lillian Carter
- Roslyn Carter
- Rebecca Latimer Felton
- Mary Phagan
- Juliette Gordon Lowe
- Corra Harris
- Ellen Axson Wilson
- Nancy Hart
- Martha Lumpkin
- Julia Flisch
- Mary Musgrove
- Margaret Mitchell
- Gone with the Wind
- Flannery O’Connor
- A Good Man is Hard to Find
- Fanny Kemble
- Helen Douglas Mankin
- Lillian Eugenia Smith
- Amanda America Dickson
- Carson McCullers
- Helen Dortsch Longstreet
- Martha McChesney Berry
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