From July 11 - 24, 2010, GHS will bring 50 educators from 23 states to participate in two week-long NEH funded workshops for community college faculty entitled, “African-American History and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah and the Coastal Islands, 1750–1950.” Each session will be attended by 25 community college faculty members currently teaching humanities courses at institutions throughout the country. Workshop participants will explore the broad themes of race and slavery in American history by focusing on site-specific experiences of communities in and around Savannah from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The workshop will include lecture sessions by nationally recognized experts on African-American folklife, culture, and religion and slavery in the American South; guided tours of the streets, squares, and structures of Savannah’s Historic Landmark District; and site visits to Ossabaw and Sapelo Islands.
The Georgia Historical Society Research Library and Archives will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Library has Saturday hours on the first and third Saturdays of the month.
1733 Georgia’s male colonists assembled with their muskets for their first military formation. James Oglethorpe then divided them into four tithings, each consisting of ten men. Nightly guard duty would … read more
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Library: Wed-Fri noon - 5 pm
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