War Is Hell; Coming Home Can Be Harder Author and veteran Nick Irving will lead a panel discussion about the ethics of reintegrating people returning from war. Panelists will include Sue Verhoef of the Atlanta History Center and Mark Eister, director of military outreach at Georgia State University and Perimeter College at Georgia State. Event […]
World War I and the Movies As part of its World War I: Lessons from 100 Years Ago initiative, Thomas County Public Library will host a screening of The Road to Glory, a 1936 film depicting the realities of trench warfare in France during World War I. A discussion will follow the screening. This event […]
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement author talk and signing Tomiko Brown-Nagin, of Harvard University, will discuss her book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement.
The United States and World War I As part of its World War I: Lessons from 100 Years Ago initiative, the Thomas County Library will present a lecture by Professor Gale Whitehurst, of Thomas University, about how Germany's geography influenced World War I and why the United States's entrance into the war became so crucial. […]
Lunch and Learn: Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Planning for Personal Records Christine Garrett, Electronic Records Manager at the Georgia Archives, will present "Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Planning for Personal Records." She will discuss identifying essential records – records of historical and sentimental value to families. She will also discuss records needed to recover from a […]
Georgia Archives Lunch and Learn Program The Georgia Archives Lunch and Learn program will be "The History of the Candler Field Museum and the Youth Aviation Program: Where History Comes Alive and Education Lights the Future" by Dave Moffett and Scott Coile.
Henry D. Green Symposium for the Decorative Arts Keynote by Peter Kenny At the ninth Henry D. Green Symposium for the Decorative Arts, Peter Kenny, the co-president of the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, will deliver a keynote lecture on America's best-known cabinetmaker, Duncan Phyfe, who designed furniture for New Yorkers as well as clients in Georgia […]
Carrie Mae Weems lecture Visual artist Carrie Mae Weems will give a lecture in conjunction with an exhibition of her work on display at the Hammonds House Museum. Entitled From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, the exhibition exposes how photography has played a key role throughout history in shaping and supporting racism, […]
Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court Legal historian Paul Finkelman, author of Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court, will give a lecture followed by a book signing at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. The three most important Supreme Court justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices John Marshall […]
The War to End All Wars and Its Impact on the South Was World War I our first "total war"? Former Georgia Humanities president Jamil Zainaldin presents a lecture at the Carnegie Library in Newnan entitled "The War to End All Wars and Its Impact on the South." This is a community event.
