Georgia Historical Society Quarterly

Georgia Historical Quarterly

Spring 2007 (vol. 91, no.1)

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Sweet, Julie Anne. The British Sailor's Advocate: James Oglethorpe's first philanthropic venture. pp. 1-27.
Grant, H. Roger. The Georgia & Florida Railroad and wiregrass agriculture. pp. 28-48.
Davis, Rebecca. Overcoming the "Defect of the Sex" : Georgia women's fight for access to jury service. pp. 49-69.
Flanders, E. Lorene; Myron House and Jan Ruskell. Georgia History in Pictures: From rural roots to global reach, celebrating a century of success at the University of West Georgia. pp. 70-82.


Book Reviews: pp. 83-114
McCash, June Hall. Jekyll Island's early years, from prehistory through Reconstruction. Athens, GA: Univeristy of GA Press, 2005.
Downey, Tom. Planting a capitalist South: masters, merchants, and manufacturers in the Southern interior, 1790-1860. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2006.
Martin, Jonathan D. Divided mastery: slave hiring in the American South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.
Mobley, Joe A. War Governor of the South: North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy. Gainesville, FL: University Press of FL, 2005.
Gardiner, Sarah E. Blood & irony: Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2004.
Ruhlman, R. Fred. Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison, a reappraisal. Knoxville,TN: University of TN Press, 2006.
Dickey, Ouida and Doyle Mathis. Berry College, a history. Athens, GA: University of GA Press, 2005.
Godshalk, David Fort. Veiled visions, the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and reshaping of American race relations. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2006.
Sokol, Jason. There goes my everything: White Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975. NY: Knopf, 2006.
Rosmano, Renee C. Race mixing, Black-White marriage in postwar America. Gainesville, FL: University Press of FL, 2006.
Hill, Lance. The deacons for defense, armed resistance and the civil rights movement. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2004.
Strain, Christopher B. Pure fire, self-defense as activism in the civil rights era. Athens, GA: University of GA Press, 2005.
Southern journeys, tourism, history & culture in the modern South. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of AL, 2003.


Recently processed Manuscript Collections at the Georgia Historical Society. pp. 114-118.
Poetry Society of Georgia Records.
US Constitution draft annotated by Abraham Baldwin, 1787.
GA Constitution, 1777.
Logan E. Bleckley Letter, 1893.
Burke Family Papers. 1773-1874.
County courthouses of GA scrapbook.
Savannah Automobile Club Guidebook.
Elbert Ward deeds, Savannah, GA.
Myrick Index to colonial wills and administrations. 1759-1830.
Chatham County (GA) Health Department death cards. 1803-1893.
GA Obituaries.
Caro McDowell Collection on the Christophe Poulain DuBignon Family, 1442-1845.
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel cased photograph, 1863--1864.

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