Poetry Atlanta Presents: Jennifer Holley Lux, Karen Paul Holmes, and Amy Pence Poetry Atlanta returns to the Georgia Center for the Book for an evening of poetry, featuring Jennifer Holley Lux, Karen Paul Holmes, and Amy Pence. This is a community event.
Lunch and Learn: Historic Preservation in the City of Atlanta: Find Out How It Works and What Is Going On Now! A lunchtime lecture on historic preservation in Atlanta will be given by Douglas Young, assistant director for historic preservation, in the City of Atlanta's Department of City Planning. (Read more about historic preservation in […]
Lunch and Learn: History Alive! Tours and Programs at the Northeast Georgia History Center Ken Johnston, curator of education at the Northeast Georgia History Center in Gainesville, will give a lecture on tours and programs at the Center. Bring your lunch to this free event. This is a community event.
Avondale Towne Cinema Short Docs Festival: Water Stories At Water Stories, seven short documentary films will be shown, including films about water monitoring of the Chattahoochee; memories of the Creek people who once lived in the region; a Gulf of Mexico sailboat adventure; springs in Florida; and the frog-harming pesticide Atrazine. A talk-back will take […]
Lunch and Learn: History of the Atlanta Braves: More than 145 Years of Braves History and Their Move to SunTrust Park Carolyn Serra, senior director of ballpark tours at Braves Heritage and Hall of Fame, will give a lecture on the Atlanta Braves and the team's new baseball park. Serra served as the director of […]
Georgia Archives' 100th Anniversary The Friends of Georgia Archives and History (FOGAH) will host an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Georgia Archives on Saturday, August 18, beginning at 4:30 pm in Morrow. The celebration will begin at the Georgia Archives lobby, located at 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow at 4:30pm with a reception and […]
Georgia Archives, 100 Years: Where We Are Now A behind-the-scenes tour of the archives, "Flattening the Counties of Georgia: Creating Access to Court Records," will allow visitors to see 18th- and 19th-century court records currently undergoing preservation in the Conservation Lab. Tour is free; no registration needed. Please wear comfortable shoes. This is a community […]
Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series This year's Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series, by the Coastal Heritage Society, will investigate the impact of the Revolutionary War on women throughout the colonies, historical fashion and dress, and the impact of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on the independence movement in Georgia. This event will begin with a reception […]
Lecture, "Found: The Empty Freckle Cream Jar of Amelia Earhart" The poet Nikky Finney will give a lecture sponsored by Georgia State University's Humanities Research Center and held at the GSU Law School auditorium. Finney is a professor at the University of South Carolina and the author of Head Off & Split, winner of the […]
Law and Order in the Archives: Bootleggers, Counterfeiters, Privateers, and Everything in Between This year’s symposium, Law and Order in the Archives, encourages research in the diverse records of the National Archives in Atlanta, features scholars whose published works were based on these holdings, and promotes the discovery of new scholars from universities and colleges across […]
