#georgiahistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #georgiahistory, aggregated by home.social.
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University of Georgia: UGA project receives $743,658 grant to preserve colonial history. “The three-year project, Many Eyes on the Road to Revolution in Colonial Georgia, will examine the state’s history from 1732 to 1798…. The project will digitize more than 12,000 pages of historical documents and make them freely available through the Digital Library of Georgia. Researchers also will […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/university-of-georgia-uga-project-receives-743658-grant-to-preserve-colonial-history/ -
Northwest Georgia News: Walker County Messenger archive opens window to past . “Ready for a trip through local history? Now you can explore more than 7,400 issues of the Walker County Messenger, from 1880 through 2025, and see everything from hometown headlines to vintage ads with prices that might make you do a double take.”
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Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Spring 2026. “This spring, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspapers to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of newly available titles.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/digital-library-of-georgia-georgia-historic-newspapers-update-spring-2026/ -
Good morning from the Macon Airport - 1960s Postcard
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#MaconGA #GeorgiaHistory #AirportArchitecture #Airports #Travel #Aviation #Avgeek -
WUGA: New website documents historic displacement of Black neighborhoods in Downtown Athens . “R-51 displaced nearly 400 households and demolished community structures in the 1960s in Downtown Athens. The displacement disproportionately affected Black families, who made up about 60% of the households.”
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Fox 5 Atlanta: Bud Smith’s Atlanta archive: 1.2M photos seek a permanent home. “Smith, who will turn 78 in April, has documented a front-row seat to history from the basement of his East Point home. His collection, which includes approximately 1.2 million pictures and 60,000 rolls of film, features some of the nation’s most notable newsmakers.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/01/bud-smiths-atlanta-archive-1-2m-photos-seek-a-permanent-home-fox-5-atlanta/ -
WSB Radio (Georgia): Marietta History Center unveils online database with thousands of artifacts. “The Marietta History Center is launching a new online database, giving the public digital access to thousands of items documenting the city’s past. The database already features more than 10,000 artifacts, most of them photographs. Collections Manager Christa McCay says the project will continue […]
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Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Summer 2025. “This past summer, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspapers to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of newly available titles.”
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Georgia State University: GSU Library Launches “The Elevated City” Online Exhibit Exploring Atlanta’s Architectural Past and Future. “The story behind Atlanta’s several elevated streets, hidden storefronts, and railroad overpasses is one of bold planning, ambitious visions, and the challenges of connecting people in a place originally built to move freight. ‘The Elevated City’ explores […]
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Associated Press: Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation. “The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a state park with the largest Confederate monument in the country, arguing officials broke state law by planning an exhibit on ties to slavery, segregation and white supremacy.”
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Georgia Public Library Service: Georgia Public Library Service Expands Digitized Collections and Historical Newspaper Access. “The Georgia Public Library Service is pleased to announce the addition of new content to the Digital Library of Georgia and the Georgia Historic Newspaper Project, making more of Georgia’s rich history accessible to the public from anywhere with an internet […]
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Digital Library of Georgia: Forthcoming Newspapers – Summer 2025. “This year, the Digital Library of Georgia will be adding a variety of new newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website (https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/). Below is the list of titles currently slated to be added to GHN in the Summer and Fall of 2025.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/01/digital-library-of-georgia-forthcoming-newspapers-summer-2025/
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Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Spring 2025. “This past winter, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspapers to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of newly available titles.”
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On Saturday we'll be hosting debut memoirist Neesha Powell-Ingabire for a conversation on undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories, followed by a signing of their new book, "Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast"!
Neesha, a millennial journalist, essayist, and organizer, traces the genealogy of systemic racial violence while paying homage to the area’s long history of Black resistance and culture keeping. Can't make the in-person event? We'll be streaming it to our YouTube channel!
Full event details, and copies of "Come By Here," available at https://firestorm.coop/events/3285-history-as-truth-telling-with-author-neesha-powell-ingabire.html
#BlackHistory #QueerSouth #GullahGeechee #GeorgiaHistory #FeministBookstore #ComeByHere #FirestormCoop (- L)
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Oche-Finceco, also known as Charles Cornells, was a Creek chief and one of the signatories of the 1826 Treaty of Washington.
in his 2001 "The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders
On the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815", Amos Wright records that Cornells, after receiving $10,000 from the federal government, fell into bad company and lost everything. He then hanged himself.The Georgia governor worked with expansionists to break the treaty, effectively forcing the Creek Nation out of the state in 1827.
#USHistory #CreekHistory #GeorgiaHistory #AmericanIndianHistory