Archive for October, 2009
Me & the thirteenth colony: finding “my” history
Hello, Georgia!
I may have alluded to this at least once before, but I’ll say it again: I am only now discovering the breadth of colorful and amazing Georgia history there is to explore. As a novice historian, the past several years of my college education has been a journey in finding my spot within the [...]
Decatur Street, 2009: Lessons in Atlanta’s 1906 race riot
For the first half of my history senior seminar class, we had assigned readings–articles from the Georgia Historical Quarterly–that we discussed for their knowledge and arguments but also for their technical structure and research methods. Because the ultimate goal of the course is our own senior theses, we were using these as models for what [...]
October 13th, 2009