Georgia Historical Society

The Latest Good Read

GHS staff recommends the following recently published books. 

Burrell, Robert S. The Ghosts of Iwo Jima (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series), College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006

Gallagher, Gary. Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art

Press, 2008

Jones, Jacqueline. Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War,New York: Vintage Books, 2009

Waugh, Joan. U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter:  America and the Korean War, New York: Hyperion, 2007

For further reading on Georgia history, please consult the following works: 

Abbot, W.W.  The Royal Governors of Georgia.  Chapel Hill, NC: University of

     North Carolina Press, 1959.

Bailey, Anne J. and Walter J. Fraser Jr.  Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic
     History of Georgia in the Civil War.  Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas
     Press, 1997.

Bell, Malcolm Jr. Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family.

     Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Boney, F.N.  A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia.  Athens: University of

     Georgia Press, 2000 edition.

Bonner, James C.  A History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860.  Athens: University

     of Georgia Press, 1964.

Bragg, William Harris.  De Renne: Three Generations of a Georgia Family.  Athens:
     University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh.  Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia,
     1880-1930.  Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Bryant, Pat and Ingrid Shields.  Georgia Counties: Their Changing Boundaries.
     Atlanta: Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1983.

Cadle, Farris W.  Georgia Land Surveying History and Law.  Athens: University of
     Georgia Press, 1991.

Candler, Allen D., ed.  The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia. 25 vols.
     Athens and Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., 1904-1916.

Carter, Jimmy.  Turning Point: A Candidate, A State and A Nation Come of Age.
     New York: Times Books, 1994.

Cashin, Edward J.  The Story of Augusta.  Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1991.

______.  Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial
     Frontier.   Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

______.  William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier.
     Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

Castel, Albert.  Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864.  Lawrence,
     KS: University Press of Kansas, 1992.

Cimbala, Kenneth.  Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedman's Bureau
     and the Reconstruction of Georgia.   Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Coleman, Kenneth.  The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789.  Athens:
     University of Georgia Press, 1958.

______.  Colonial Georgia: A History.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976.

______. ed.  A History of Georgia.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, Second
     edition, 1991.

Coleman, Kenneth and Charles Stephen Gurr, eds.  Dictionary of Georgia
     Biography. 2 vols.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.

Davis, Harold.  The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Line in Colonial Georgia,

     1733-1776.  Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1976.

Davis, Robert S. Jr.  Cotton, Fire & Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and
     Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912.   Macon: Mercer University

     Press, 1998.

Doyle, Don H.  New Men, New Cities, New South.  Chapel Hill, NC: University of

      North Carolina Press, 1990.

Federal Writers Project.  Georgia: A Guide to Its Towns and Countryside.  Athens:
     University of Georgia Press, 1940.

Fraser, Walter J. Savannah in the Old South. Athens: University of Georgia Press,

     2003. 

Garrett, Franklin M.  Atlanta & Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events.
     Atlanta: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1954.

Georgia Historical Quarterly. 1917-2007.

Georgia Writers' Project.  Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia
     Coastal Negroes.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1940.

Hemperley, Marion R. and Edwin L. Jackson.  Georgia's Boundaries: The Shaping

     of a State.  Athens: Carl Vinson Institute of Government, 1993.

Hodler, Thomas W. and Howard R. Schretter, eds.  The Atlas of Georgia.  Athens:
     Institute of Community and Area Development, 1986.

Hoffmann, Paul E.  A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American
     Southeast During the Sixteenth Century.   Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State

     University Press, 1990.

Inscoe, John C. and Numan V. Bartley, eds.  Georgia in Black & White:
     Explorations in the Rare Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950.   Athens:
     University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Journal of Southwest Georgia History, 1983-2007.

Kimsey, Thora Olsen and Sonja Olsen Kinard.  Memories of the Marshes of Glynn:
     World War II.   Brunswick: n.p., 1999.

Knight, Lucien Lamar.  A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians, 6 vols.
     Atlanta: Lewis Publishing, 1917.

Lane, Mills B., ed.  General Oglethorpe's Georgia: Colonial Letters, 1733-1743,
     2 vols.  Savannah: The Beehive Foundation, 1990.

______.  The People of Georgia.  Savannah, GA: The Beehive Foundation, 1992.

______.  Standing upon the Mouth of a Volcano: New South Georgia, A

     Documentary History.  Savannah, GA: The Beehive Foundation, 1993.

Lawrence, Alexander A.  Storm over Savannah.  Athens: University of Georgia
     Press, 1951.

______.  A Present for Mr. Lincoln: The Story of Savannah from Secession to
     Sherman.   Macon: Ardivan Press, 1961.

Memoirs of Georgia, Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military,
     Industrial and Professional Interests and Personal Sketches of Many of Its
     People.   Atlanta: Southern Historical Association, 1895.

Mohr, Clarence I.  On the Threshold of Freedon: Masters and Slaves in Civil War
     Georgia.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Newman, Harvey K.  Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta.
     Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1999.

Orser, Charles E.  The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation.
     Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Russell, Preston and Barbara Himes.  Savannah: A History of Her People Since
     1733.   Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, 1992.

Scaife, William R.  The Campaign for Atlanta.  Saline, MI: McNaughton & Gunn,
     1993.

Sears, Joan Niles.  The First One Hundred Years of Town Planning in Georgia.
     Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing, 1979.

Smith, Derek. Civil War Savannah. Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, Inc.,

     1997. 

Smith, Gordon Burns. Morningstars of Liberty: The Revolutionary War in Georgia,

     1775-1783: Volume One. Milledgeville, GA: Boyd Publishing, 2006. 

Spalding, Phinizy B.  Oglethorpe in America.  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
     Press, 1977.

Stewart, Mart A.  "What Nature Suffers to Groe": Life, Labor and Landscape on the
     Georgia Coast, 1680-1920.   Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Sullivan, Buddy.  Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater.  Darien: Darien Printing,
     sixth edition, 2001.

Tuck, Stephen G.N.  Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia,
     1940-1980.   Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Turner, Maxine.  Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee
     and Apalachicola Rivers.   Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

Utley, Francis Lee and Marion R. Hemperley, eds.  Placenames of Georgia: Essays
     of John H. Goff.   Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975.

Weeks, Carl Solana. Savannah in the Time of Peter Tondee. Columbia, S.C.:

     Summerhouse Press, 1997. 

Wetherington, Mark V.  The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910.
     Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

White, George.  Historical Collections of Georgia.  New York: Pudney and Russell,
     1854.

Worsley, Etta Blanchard.  Columbus on the Chattahoochee.  Columbus: Columbus
     Office Supply, 1951.