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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Geechee and Gullah Culture
Discover the Georgia Sea Islands which are home to the Geechee and Gullah culture that are part of West African ethnic groups.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Sequoyah (Ca. 1770 Ca. 1840)
Featured is an overview of the life of Sequoyah who "was the legendary creator of the Cherokee syllabary." He found a way for the Cherokee people to communicate with each other by making each sound represented by a symbol which...
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Discussion of the lawsuit filed by Samuel Worcester against the state of Georgia protesting the way the state handled the Cherokee lands. The case went to the Supreme Court where although Chief Justice Marshall ruled in favor of the...
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Information is provided on the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain which was part of the Atlanta Campaign in the Civil War. The actual battle took place between Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston which...
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Wilson's Raid
Read the fascinating story of Union general James Wilson and his march through Alabama and Georgia defeating the Confederacy every step of the way.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Sherman's March to the Sea
Encyclopedia article describing General William Sherman's "March to the Sea" across Georgia that started in Atlanta and ended in Savannah.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Battle of Chickamauga
Discover facts about the Battle of Chickamauga, which was fought in 1863 and was the biggest Civil War battle ever to take place in Georgia.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Women During the Civil War
Article that takes a look at the role of women in the South during the American Civil War especially in Georgia.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Black Troops in Civil War Georgia
The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an article describing the role, recruitment, and enlistment of black troops in Georgia during the Civil War.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: James Longstreet (1821 1904)
Insightful biographical information on the life and career of James Longstreet who played a prominent role in the Civil War.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Edward Porter Alexander
Highlights the life and military career of brigadier general Edward Porter Alexander, who served in twelve Civil War battles including Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg and the battle of Chickamauga.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Andersonville Prison
Andersonville Prison was created in February, 1864 to relieve the overcrowding of Union prisoners in other nearby prisons. It closed a year later due to sanitation problems among others and had earned a reputation for inflicting...
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Emancipation
Learn about emancipation in the state of Georgia, the struggle for a new social order and all that it entailed in this article from the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Indigo
Discussion of how production of the blue dye, indigo, helped boost the economy of Georgia and South Carolina in the seventeenth and eighteenth century until the Revolutionary War when England stopped buying it and production collapsed.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Rice
Discussion of the Georgia rice industry and its importance as an agricultural commodity from the 1750s until the Civil War.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Nathanael Green (1742 1786)
General Nathanael Greene was commander of the Southern Department of the Continental army and a respected leader that helped America win the Revolutionary War. Here you can read about his early life, military career, the Southern...
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Abraham Baldwin (1754 1807)
An excellent informative biography on Abraham Baldwin who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, founder of the University of Georgia, a member of the Georgia State Legislature and U.S. House of Representatives, and a U.S....
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Eli Whitney in Georgia
Although Eli Whitney was born in Massachusetts, it was in Georgia that he invented the cotton gin in 1793.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Thomas Hardwick (1872 1944)
Biographical account of the life and political career of Georgia governor Thomas Hardwick, who in 1919 was a target of a mail bomb that started the Palmer Raids.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Juliette Gordon Low 1860 1927
Good reference tool for learning about the life of Juliette Gordon Low who in 1912 was the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Jeannette Rankin (1880 1973)
This brief encyclopedia article tells the story of Jeannette Rankin who was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was involved in the women's suffrage movement.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: w.e.b. Du Bois in Georgia
Biographical summary of the early life and career of educator and civil rights activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. While living in Georgia, he wrote some of his best-known works on black social conditions.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Stone Mountain
Highlights the history of Stone Mountain located in Georgia near Atlanta which is "the largest exposed mass of granite in the world". Once used by Native Americans as a ceremonial meeting place, it is now a state park and a major tourist...
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Sharecropping
Features a detailed discussion of sharecropping, a labor system that developed in Georgia after the Civil War in which workers raised crops for someone else in exchange for a share of the crop.