Product Description: This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia.The contributors are authorities in their respective fields and their efforts represent not only the fruits of long careers but also the observations and insights of some of the most promising young scholars...read more

A reconsideration of James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785) and his successes and failures in founding and establishing of the colony of Georgia.   

Product Description: This is the story of the lives and political careers of three men - Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton - who attained prominence within that struggle and who acquired undying fame by representing Georgia in the congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence.

Product Description: Book by Atkins, Leah Rawls, Lll, Jackson, Harvey H.

Product Description: An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie."This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapolo-getically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for its colorful past, told by one of the state's most noted historians and educators, whose family came to the territory before statehood...read more

Lachlan McIntosh (1728-1806) was a prominent Georgia planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America, and the ranking general from Georgia in the Continental army. Often, however, he is known simply as the man who, in a duel, mortally wounded Button Gwinnett, one of Georgia's signers of the Declaration of Independence. This biography fleshes out McIntosh considerably and, just as important, uses his life as a springboard for discussing the rapidly shifting political, social, and economic forces at work during a crucial period of Georgia's history.

Product Description: A fascinating time capsule, this classic guide captures Alabama at a critical moment in its history between the Great Depression and World War II and its aftermath.The WPA guide to Alabama provides a unique snapshot of 1930s Alabama life and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is the story of the human effort that went into completing one of the most complex feats of engineering in Alabama history, the building of four major hydroelectric dams by the Alabama Power Company.  Between 1910 and 1930 the Alabama Power Company built four major hydroelectric projects: Lay Dam (1914), Mitchell Dam (1923), and Jordan Dam (1929) on the Coosa River and Martin Dam (1926) on the Tallapoosa River...read more

Product Description: Volume I to 1877: The Meeting of Cultures, The English Transplantations, Life in Provincial America, The Empire Under Strain, The American Revolution, The Constitution and The New Republic, The Jeffersoian Era, Varieits of American Nationalism, Jacksonian America, America's Economic Revolution, Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South, An Age of Reforms, The Impending Crisis, The Civil War, Reconstruction And The New South, Book Review, Research Paper, Self Tests...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)