Author: W. Dorsey StancilPublisher:
ISBN: 9780914923169
Category : Gwinnett County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Vanishing Gwinnett II, Gwinnett County, Georgia
Author: W. Dorsey StancilPublisher:
ISBN: 9780914923169
Category : Gwinnett County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Vanishing Gwinnett, Gwinnett County, Georgia
Author: W. Dorsey StancilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Vanishing Georgia
Author: Georgia Dept of Archives and HistoryPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820324957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The absorbing vintage photographs brought together in Vanishing Georgia recall life in the state from halfway through the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Pictured here are both great events and commonplace occurrences: Atlanta in the wake of Sherman's march and a small town bedecked in flags on the Fourth of July; paddlewheelers loaded with barrels of turpentine and proud owners of new automobiles; a get-together with neighbors for a corn shucking and a crowd straining to hear the last words of a convicted man. Vanishing Georgia is an engaging entree into the state's vast and varied history, a treasure for both casual browsers and serious scholars.
Through the Heart of Dixie
Author: Anne S. RubinPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory
Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018
Author: Matthew HildPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the entrance of women into the political arena, the evolution of cotton culture, the development of modern infrastructure, and the transformation from rural to suburban to a multicultural urbanizing place. Gwinnett, as its chamber of commerce likes to say, has it all. However, Gwinnett has yet to be the focus of a major historical exploration—until now. Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild’s collection finally tells these stories in a systematic way—avoiding the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories that tend to ignore issues of race, class, or gender. While not claiming to be comprehensive, this book provides general readers and scholars alike with a glimpse at Gwinnett through the ages.
The Courthouse and the Depot
Author: Wilber W. CaldwellPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547483
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Their songs insist that the arrival of the railroad and the appearance of the tiny depot often created such hope that it inspired the construction of the architectural extravaganzas that were the courthouses of the era. In these buildings the distorted myth of the Old South collided head-on with the equally deformed myth of the New South."
The Empty Nursery
Author: Jaclyn Weldon WhitePublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547650
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
On July 3, 1992, seven-month-old Haley Hardwick was reported kidnapped. Her father Kenny Hardwick told police that he had stopped to assist two stranded motorists and, upon returning to his own vehicle, discovered his daughter missing. The case became a media sensation overnight. People in the metropolitan Atlanta area became obsessed with the mystery of the baby's disappearance. Huge searches by hundreds of volunteers produced no trace of the child. Although they spent hundreds of man-hours following up leads about the kidnapping, the police began to believe that the father was responsible and, with the media, began a campaign to pressure him into revealing the truth.Numerous interviews with the lead investigators and the child's mother have provided in-depth insight into the case from two very different perspectives. While the police followed one lead after another, the child's mother was torn between believing a husband she loved and the authorities who kept telling her he was responsible for the baby's disappearance. As the investigation dragged on, Haley Hardwick became everybody's baby.
The New Georgia Guide
Author: University of Georgia PressPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820317984
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The Georgia Humanities Council presents a guidebook with cultural, historical, and regional coverage of Georgia
Vanishing School Boards
Author: Patrick RicePublisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 147580816X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Since Nation at Risk, NCLB and RTT, the once thought sacred institution of school boards as catalysts to ensure local control of schools is being redefined and are under heavy attack. Increasingly, school boards are disappearing from the discussion of promoting student achievement and their role as educational decision-makers have significantly declined. The aims of public education are gradually being federalized and privatized. In Vanishing School Boards, author Patrick Rice give various reasons for the descent of school boards, reasons why school boards are vital, the importance of board training and how the superintendent can assist the board in their mission of delivering a quality education to all students.
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