Georgia History

Prehistoric Period

 

Georgia's Prehistoric Indians
 
 

Spanish Presence in the Southeast

Age of Spanish Exploration, Conquest, and Early Colonization
European Exploration of the "New World"

Map of Spanish Missions in Georgia: 1526-1686
Military Artifacts of Spanish Florida: 1650-1821: An Internet Museum
Native American Conquest
Spanish Exploration (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Spanish History and Heritage Links
Spanish Missions(New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Timeline of Spanish Exploration and Colonization: 1492-1542

 

 

French Presence in the Southeast

Bourbon France: Spain's Colonial Allies and Antagonists, 1699-1781
Charlesfort
Fort Caroline National Memorial (GORP)

Fort Caroline National Memorial (National Park Service)
French Presence in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

 

 

 

Georgia as an English Colony

 

Battle of Bloody Marsh
Bethesda (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Coastal Fortifications (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Ebenezer (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Fort Frederica (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Fort King George (Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites)
Fort King George (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Frederica Town Plan, 1742
Georgia as a Royal Colony (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Georgia Salzburgers
Georgia Trustee Period (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
History of Frederica (NPS)
Immigration to Colonial Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Indigo Production (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
James Edward Oglethorpe
Malcontents in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Military in Colonial Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Monarchs of Britain
Moravians in Georgia, 1735-40
Moravians (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Rice Production (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Ruins of William Horton house on Jekyll Island
Slave Trade (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Slavery in Colonial Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Treaty of Paris (1763)
When is Georgia's Birthday?
Women in Colonial Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Wormsloe Plantation (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Wrightsborough (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Revolution to the Civil War

 

American Revolution in Georgia

Augusta Canal National Heritage Area
Camp-Meeting Grounds (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Chisholm vs. Georgia (1793) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Civil War in Georgia
Cotton Culture
Dahlonega Gold Rush and U.S. Mint
Federal Road (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Fletcher vs. Peck (1810) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Founding of the University of Georgia
Georgia and the Texas Revolution
Georgia $4 Currency, 1776
Georgia's Black Revolutionary Patriots
Georgia's Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia (Digital Library of Georgia)
Gold coins minted in Georgia (description and images)
Gold Rush (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Gold Rush Gallery
Land Lottery System (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Old Governor's Mansion
Roster of the Georgia Guard (1831)
Seminole Wars (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Trail of Tears
Travels of William Bartram
War of 1812 and Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Worcester vs. Georgia (1832) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Yazoo Land Fraud

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reconstruction to the 20th Century

 

 

1881 International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Bourbon Triumvirate (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 (Digital Library of Georgia)
Cotton Expositions in Atlanta (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, 1895
Cotton States and International Exposition Photographs (Digital Library of Georgia)
Cotton States and International Exposition - Liberty Bell (Liberty Bell Museum)
Farmers' Alliance (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Freedman's Bureau Records for Georgia (selected records, 1865-1868)
Ku Klux Klan Violence in Georgia, 1871
Lynching (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Naval Stores Industry (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Populist Party (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Reconstruction Georgia

Reconstruction in North Georgia
Sharecropping (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Spanish-American War in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Tunis Campbell: Marching to a Different Drummer

 

 

Georgia in the 20th Century

 

Albany Movement (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Americus Movement and Sedition Trial (Americus, GA) (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Atlanta Braves History

Atlanta Child Murders

Atlanta Crackers
Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Atlanta Race Riot, 1906 (Coalition to Remember and Digital Library of Georgia)
Augusta Movement (Civil Rights Digital Library)
City of Rome vs. United States (1980) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta

Civil Rights Movement in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Coca-Cola

Cocking Affair (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Coker vs. Georgia (1977) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
County Unit System (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

 

Death of a President, April 12, 1945
Doe vs. Bolton (1973) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

FDR's Ties to Georgia
Furman vs. Georgia (1972) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Georgia Tech Integration (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Georgia's 2007 Drought Photo Gallery
Georgia's Little New Deal
Gray vs. Sanders (1963) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Great Depression (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Great Depression in Georgia
Gregg vs. Georgia (1976) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Gubernatorial Election of 1966 (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Heart of Atlanta Motel vs. United States (1964) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Heart of Atlanta/Pickrick Trial (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Ku Klux Klan in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Leo Frank Case 

Leo Frank Clemency File (Secretary of State)
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Nobel Peace Prize (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assasination (Civil Rights Digital Library)
McCleskey vs. Kemp (1987) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
NAACP Convention in Atlanta (1962) (Civil Rights Digital Library)

New Deal in Atlanta 

New Deal in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Georgia
1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery (Digital Library of Georgia)
Progressive Era in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Screws vs. United States (1945) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Sits-Ins; Atlanta, GA (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Stanley vs. Georgia (1969) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Student Movement of the 1960s (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Temple Bombing (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Temple Bombing (Civil Rights Digital Library)

Three Governors Affair
United States vs. Darby (1941) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
University of Georgia Integration (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Wesberry vs. Sanders (1964) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Women's Suffrage in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
World War I in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
World War II in Georgia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

 

 

General Information

 

 

 

African-American History and Culture
Baptists in Georgia, 1733-Present
Brief History of Georgia Counties
Burial sites of famous Georgia politicans (listed by office)
Chronology of Georgia
Diaries, Journals, and Letters Related to Georgia

Digital Library of Georgia
Famous Georgians
Flags That Have Flown Over Georgia
Georgia Counties: Dates and Order of Creation
Georgia County Courthouses
Georgia County Historical Population Profiles
Georgia Firsts
Georgia Historical Markers
Georgia Historical Plaques

Georgia Indians
Georgia Obsolete Currency
Georgia on Stamps
Georgia Place Names
Georgia's Historic Capitals
Historic Forts in Georgia
Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties

Historical Documents Related to Georgia
Historical information about Georgia governors
History of Georgia's Capitol and Capital Cities
History of the Georgia National Guard
Online Books and Articles Related to Georgia
Our Georgia History
Photos and Other Images Related to Georgia History
Savannah's Historic Squares
Speeches Related to Georgia or Georgians 
Statues and Monuments in Georgia
US50 Guide to Georgia History
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser

Virtual Vault: Digital Treasures from the Georgia Archives
WPA Life Histories from Georgia (73 interviews)

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Georgia Railroads

 

 

Georgia's Railroad History and Heritage
Southern Railway Historical Association
Central of Georgia Railway Historical Page
Georgia Railroads (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Central of Georgia Railway (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Story of the "General"

"The Great Locomotive Chase"
History of Underground Atlanta
Southeastern Railway Museum
Western & Atlantic Railroad Story

 

 
 

Historical Organizations, Societies and Libraries

 

 

Georgia Association of Historians
Georgia County Historical Society Links

Georgia Department of Archives and History

Society of Georgia Archivists

Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Humanities Council

Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
Digital Library of Georgia

Hargrett Library (University of Georgia)

Historic Preservation Division (Georgia Department of Natural Resources)

Historical Societies in Georgia (Secretary of State)

Historical Society of the Georgia National Guard

Richard B. Russell Library (University of Georgia)

 

 

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