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The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, 1940-1975

Schatten Gallery Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, 1940-1975 Emory University's Woodruff Library will celebrate the contributions of Beat writers, poets, and artists with the exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, 1940-1975, which will draw from collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, including the Raymond […]

Revolutionary Perspectives

Revolutionary Perspectives As part of the Coastal Heritage Society's Revolutionary Perspectives lecture series, Solomon K. Smith, professor of history at Georgia Southern University, will present a lecture about Lieutenant Colonel James Grant and the cause of the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758-1761). This event will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. The lecture will begin at […]

Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame Dinner

InterContinental Buckhead Hotel 3315 Peachtree Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA, United States

Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame Dinner The Atlanta Press Club will celebrate new Hall of Fame inductees and the impact good journalism has made in Georgia and throughout the nation. Inductees include Fred Kalil, a long-time sports anchor; Aubrey Morris, the first news director of WSB Radio; Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for […]

Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War author talk

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War author talk The Rose Library will host a reading by and discussion with John Morrow Jr., author of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality. This event is in conjunction with A Question of Manhood: African American and World War […]

Revolutionary Perspectives

Savannah History Museum 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Savannah, GA, United States

Revolutionary Perspectives As part of the Coastal Heritage Society's Revolutionary Perspectives lecture series, the Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters will perform a ring shout, an African American religious ritual involving dance, call-and-response singing, and percussion. First performed by enslaved Africans, the ring shout affirms oneness with the Spirit and with ancestors as well as community cohesiveness. […]

Race and Understanding: A Conversation with Patrick Phillips

JSAC Coffehouse, Augusta University (Summerville) 1120 15th St., Augusta, GA, United States

Race and Understanding: A Conversation with Patrick Phillips Augusta University will host Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, for a reading and reception as part of the Sand Hills Writers Series. This event is supported by a Georgia Humanities grant.

L’Chaim Sandy Springs! A Toast to Jewish Participation in Our City

L'Chaim Sandy Springs! A Toast to Jewish Participation in Our City Heritage Sandy Springs is partnering with local Jewish organizations and the Breman Museum to collect, archive, and preserve the Jewish history of Sandy Springs. A traveling exhibition explores the community's founding and the growth of Jewish life and culture in the city. The exhibition […]

Documenting the Present: Archival Conscience and Proactive Archives

Brasstown Valley Resort 6321 U.S. 76, Young Harris, GA, United States

Documenting the Present: Archival Conscience and Proactive Archives The 2017 Society of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting will reflect on the particular challenges archives face with contemporary material, and how archivists preserve our present cultural environment for future generations. Anne Gilliland, of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California Los […]

26th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA

Marcus Jewish Community Center 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, GA, United States

26th Edition of the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta For more than 25 years, the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta has offered a two-week literary extravaganza featuring an exciting lineup of the year's most exceptional authors. Each year, thousands of book lovers come together to […]

King Cotton in the Georgia Piedmont

King Cotton in the Georgia Piedmont The cotton industry dictated the present-day Morgan County as we know now, from the landscape to commercial downtown businesses, the historic homes, culture, and pace of life. This symposium will present the history and importance of the cotton industry in Morgan County and discuss the place of the industry […]

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