Teaching American History Workshop for Teachers

May 14, 2008

Buffalo Soldiers

Teaching American History Workshop for Teachers

May 19, 2008

Leaps For Mankind: Cold War, Civil Rights, and Technology

Teaching American History Workshop for Teachers

May 21, 2008

Thurgood Marshall

Community College Faculty Workshop Session I

July 13, 2008 - July 18, 2008

Landmarks of American History and Culture

Slaves laboring in a cotton field, detail of a stereograph from the GHS Collection, 1361SG-AG-Cotton-05.

Workshops for Community College Faculty:

African-American History & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry:

Savannah & The Coastal Islands, 1750-1950,

July 13-18 & July 20-25, 2008

The landmarks workshop for community college faculty has been designed to address broad themes of race and slavery in American history covered in a U.S. History survey course by focusing on site-specific experiences of communities in and around Savannah from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Through course readings, scholarly lectures, landmark site visits, community presentations, guided tours, and research in primary source documents from the Georgia Historical Society collection we will examine the centrality of place in the African-American experience in Georgia's Lowcountry and the larger Atlantic world. Workshop content is intended to help facilitate classroom discussion of general topics such as American slavery, early-American and nineteenth century economies, art, and music as well as more site-specific subjects such as the impact of geography, environment, time, and place on the development of community values and cultures.

Check back for further updates throughout the coming months.

For more information on NEH Landmark Workshops for Community College Faculty contact Charles Snyder by e-mail and visit http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-college.html

Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the national Endowment for the Humanities. 

Community College Faculty Workshop Session II

July 20, 2008 - July 25, 2008

Landmarks of American History and Culture

Slaves labouring in a cotton field, detail of a stereograph from the GHS Collection, 1361SG-AG-Cotton-05

Workshops for Community College Faculty:

African-American History & Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry:

Savannah & The Coastal Islands, 1750-1950,

July 13-18 & July 20-25, 2008

The landmarks workshop for community college faculty has been designed to address broad themes of race and slavery in American history covered in a U.S. History survey course by focusing on site-specific experiences of communities in and around Savannah from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Through course readings, scholarly lectures, landmark site visits, community presentations, guided tours, and research in primary source documents from the Georgia Historical Society collection we will examine the centrality of place in the African-American experience in Georgia's Lowcountry and the larger Atlantic world. Workshop content is intended to help facilitate classroom discussion of general topics such as American slavery, early-American and nineteenth century economies, art, and music as well as more site-specific subjects such as the impact of geography, environment, time, and place on the development of community values and cultures.

Check back for further updates throughout the coming months.

For more information on NEH Landmark Workshops for Community College Faculty contact Charles Snyder by e-mail and visit http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-college.html

Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the national Endowment for the Humanities. 

Georgia Historical Society Lecture Series

August 14, 2008

Southern Storm:
Sherman’s March to the Sea
By Noah Andre Trudeau

Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Congregation Mickve Israel

20 E. Gordon St., Savannah 

Monterey Square

Free and open to the public—Book signing following lecture
For more information, please call 912.651.2125
Or visit www.georgiahistory.com

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Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a fascinating new account of United States Army General William Tecumseh Sherman’s epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate Army but an entire society as well. In vivid detail, Trudeau explains why General Sherman’s name is still anathema below the Mason-Dixon Line, especially in Georgia, where he is remembered as “one who marched to the sea with death and devastation in his wake.”

Sherman’s swath of destruction spanned more than sixty miles in width and virtually cut the South in two, badly disabling the flow of supplies to the Confederate army. Told through the intimate and engrossing diaries and letters of Sherman’s soldiers and the civilians who suffered in their path, Southern Storm paints a vivid picture of an event that would forever change the course of America.

Profiles in Leadership

October 10, 2008

Abraham Lincoln:

Leadership and Legacy for a New Generation

Roundtable discussion featuring David Blight and Harold Holzer

Georgia Public Broadcasting Studio C,

260 14th Street NW,

Atlanta, GA
October 10, 2008

The Georgia Historical Society returns to the Georgia Public Broadcasting Studios in Atlanta for the 2008 Profiles in Leadership, which will focus on "Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Legacy for a New Generation," as part of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. This year’s program will explore the life, times, and leadership of a man who guided the nation through one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Our panelists this year are two of the foremost national authorities on Lincoln and are both Lincoln Prize winners: David Blight of Yale University (click here to read bio ) and Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the United States Lincoln Bicentennial (click here to read bio ).

Georgia Days Kickoff Event

February 03, 2009

Colonial Faire and Muster

February 07, 2009 - February 08, 2009

Saturday (Family Day) and Sunday, February 7-8, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Wormsloe State Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Road, Savannah

Sponsored by: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Georgia

Bring your family back in time to the site of one of the earliest and most beautiful colonial-era plantations of the Georgia coast. The ruins of the plantation house, costumed interpreters, colonial-era musicians, and a host of demonstrations evoke the spirit of colonial Georgia for friends and families of all ages. Schedule of events is available upon arrival at the Faire and Muster.

Free and open to the public

Super Museum Sunday

February 08, 2009

Savannah-area museums (Full listing of participating venues will be available January 2009)

Georgians and visitors alike will experience our first city's rich history and cultural life as historic house museums, art museums, and other points of interest open their doors to the public at no charge during this Georgia Historical Society's Georgia Days tradition. More than 40 cultural institutions in and around Savannah participate in this popular annual family event.

For a listing of 2008 participants, click here. 

Free and open to the public

GHS's 2009 Georgia Days Parade

February 12, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009, 10:30 a.m.
Bull Street from Forsyth Park to City Hall, Savannah

  The GHS library and archives will be closed to researchers from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for this event. GHS will be open for research from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.  

  
Elementary school students join dignitaries, costumed characters, and local citizens in a colorful parade through the squares of Bull Street in a Georgia Day tradition. The parade begins at Forsyth Park and continues north on Bull Street, ending at City Hall with greetings from the Mayor and other dignitaries as well as Banner Competition awards presentations to the students. Thousands of elementary school children participate annually.

Free and open to the public

Click here to view WTOC's broadcast of the 2008 Georgia Day Parade! 

Georgia Day Dignitaries Coffee

February 12, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:00 a.m.

Georgia Day begins with a coffee for dignitaries, sponsors, and special guests. The event features greetings from dignitaries, introductions of historical characters, and a continental breakfast. The Georgia Day Dignitaries' Coffee will also feature the unveiling of new plaques honoring the creators of named endowment funds at the Georgia Historical Society. Attendees are invited to join the Georgia Day Parade, which begins at the conclusion of the Coffee just steps away from the Georgia Historical Society at the north end of Forsyth Park.

Invitation only

Georgia Days Birthday Bash and Annual Awards Gala

February 14, 2009

 

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Savannah