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Georgia Historic Books from the Digital Library of Georgia

Benjamin Martyn, Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733)

An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal from his Embarking for Georgia to his Return to London (1739)

William Bartram, Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida,
the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions,
Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates . (1791)

William Moultrie, Memoirs of the American Revolution (1802)

Hugh McCall, The History of Georgia, Containing Brief Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events, up to the Present Day (1811)

Adiel Sherwood, A Gazetteer of the State of Georgia (1829)

George Whitefield, Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia (1830)

Richard Peters, The Case of the Cherokee Nation against the State of Georgia; Argued and Determined at the Supreme Court of the United States (1831)

William Phillips, Essay on the Georgia Gold Mines, from American Journal of Science and Arts (1833)

Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist (1836)

Thaddeus Mason Harris, Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe (1841)

William Bacon Stevens, A History of Georgia from its First Discovery by Europeans to the Adoption of the Present Constitution in MDCCXCVIII (1847)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Joseph Jones, A Voice from the South... (1847)

Richard Keily, A Brief Descriptive and Statistical Sketch of Georgia (1849)

Observations on Dr. Stevens's History of Georgia (1849)

George White, Statistics of the State of Georgia (1849)

Augustus Longstreet, Georgia Scenes: Characters, Incidents, &c., in The First Half Century of The Republic (1850)

T.S. Arthur and W.H. Carpenter, The History of Georgia from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (1853)

William Tappan Thompson, Chronicles of Pineville: Embracing Sketches of Georgia Scenes, Incidents, and Characters (1853)

John Brown, Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (1855)

Rev. George White, Historical Collections of Georgia: Containing the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc. (1855)

Philip A. Strobel, The Salzburgers and Their Descendants: Being the History of a Colony of German (Lutheran) Protestants, Who Emigrated to Georgia in 1734, and Settled at Ebenezer, Twenty-Five Miles above the City of Savannah (1855)

Joseph Jones, Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860 (1861)

Charles Colcock Jones, Monumental Remains of Georgia (1861)

Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839 (1863)

Julia Johnson Fisher, 1814-1885, Diary, 1864 (1864)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck (1864)

A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (1865)

Augusta Jane Evans, Beulah (1865)

Joseph Addison Turner, The Cotton Planter's Manual (1865)

Bill Arp, Bill Arp, So Called. A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War (1866)

Sidney Andrews, The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas (1866)

George N. Barnard, Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866)

Franklin B. Hough, The Siege of Savannah (1866)

Robert Wright, A Memoir of General James Oglethorpe (1867)

John Rollin Ridge, Poems (1868)

Willard W. Glazier, The Capture, The Prison Pen, and the Escape: Giving a Complete History of Prison Life in the South (1869)

Garnett Andrews, Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer (1870)

John L. Conley, Analysis of the Constitution of Georgia (1870)

Alexander Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, Vol. II (1870)

Matthew F. Stephenson, Geology and Mineralogy of Georgia (1871)

Samuel Gardner Drake, Early History of Georgia, Embracing the Embassy of Sir Alexander Cuming to the Country of the Cherokees, in the Year 1730 (1872)

William Tappan Thompson, Major Jones's Courtship: Detailed, with other Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures, in a Series of Letters by Himself (1872)

Bill Arp, Bill Arp's Peace Papers (1873)

Absalom H. Chappell, Miscellanies of Georgia: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, Etc.: Part I (1874)

Charles Colcock Jones,  The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina During General Sherman's March from Atlanta to the Sea (1874, c1875) 

Thomas P. Janes, Hand-book of the State of Georgia (1876)

Augusta Jane Evans, Infelice (1877)

George Gillman Smith, The History of Methodism in Georgia and Florida, From 1785 to 1865 (1877)

Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy.  (1878)

Charles H. Olmstead, Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863 (1879)

William Tappan Thompson, Major Jones's Georgia Scenes (1880)

Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (1881)

Charles C. Jones, The History of Georgia (1883)

Frances Butler Leigh, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (1883)

Richard Malcolm Johnston, Old Mark Langston (1884)

Georgia Department of Agriculture, J.T. Henderson, The Commonwealth of Georgia (1885)

Augusta Jane Evans, At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887)

Joel Chandler Harris, Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches. (1887)

William Pittenger, A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 (1887)

Charles Colcock Jones, The Life and Services of the Honorable Maj. Gen. Samuel Elbert of Georgia (1887)

William M. Meigs, Life of Josiah Meigs (1887)

Charles C. Jones, Jr., Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast (1888)

Richard Malcolm Johnston, Mr. Absalom Billingslea, and other Georgia Folk (1888)

Wallace P. Reed (ed.), History of Atlanta, Georiga, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (1889)

Joel Chandler Harris, Life of Henry W. Grady Including his Writings and Speeches (1890)

Charles Colcock Jones, Biographical Sketches of the Delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress (1891)

Charles Henry Smith, A School History of Georgia: Georgia as a Colony and State 1733-1893 (1893)

Dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (1895)

R.T. Nesbitt, Georgia: Her Resources and Possibilities (1895)

Joel Chandler Harris, Little Mr. Thimblefinger (1895)

Joseph M. Brown, The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia (1895)

John H. Caldwell, Reminiscences of the Reconstruction of Church and State in Georgia (1895)

Views of Atlanta and the Cotton States and International Exposition (1895)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 (1896)

Augusta Jane Evans, Macaria (1896)

Joel Chandler Harris, Georgia from the Invasion of De Soto to Recent Times (1896)

Joel Chandler Harris, Stories of Georgia (1896)

John H.T. McPherson, The Government of the People of the State of Georgia (1896)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Conservation of Races (1897)

Richard Malcolm Johnston, Pearce Amerson's Will (1898)

Augusta Jane Evans, Inez: A Tale of the Alamo (1899)

Joel Chandler Harris, The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann (1899)

Joel Chandler Harris, Mingo and Other Sketches in Black and White (1899)

Sidney Lanier, Select Poems of Sidney Lanier (1899)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Northern Georgia Sketches (1900)

Sidney Lanier, Bob: The Story of Our Mocking-bird (1900)

George Gillman Smith, The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732-1860 (1900)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Westerfelt (1901)

William J. Northen (ed.), Men of Mark in Georgia: A Complete and Elaborate History of the State From its Settlement to the Present Time, Chiefly Told in Biographies and Autobiographies of the Most Eminent Men of Each Period of Georgia's Progress and Development (1901)

Obediah B. Stephens, Georgia: Historical and Industrial (1901)

Edwin C. Woolley, The Reconstruction of Georgia (1901)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Abner Daniel (1902)

Augusta Jane Evans, A Speckled Bird (1902)

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Georgia and State Rights. A Study of the Political History of Georgia from the Revolution to the Civil War, with Particular Regard to Federal Relations (1902)

Bill Arp, Bill Arp from the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903 (1903)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

John B. Gordon, "Missionary Ridge -- Triune Disaster" (Chapter XV from Reminiscences of The Civil War) (1903)

Harriet C. Cooper, James Oglethorpe: The Founder of Georgia (1904)

John Brown Gordon, Reminiscences of the Civil War. (1904)

Joel Chandler Harris, A Little Union Scout (1904)

Joseph Harris Chappell, Georgia History Stories (1905)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Pole Baker (1905)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Ann Boyd (1906)

Allen D. Candler and Clement A. Evans, Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cylopedic Form (1906)

Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (1906)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Mam' Linda (1907)

Lucian Lamar Knight, Reminiscences of Famous Georgians, Embracing Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of the Great Men of the State (1907)

Sidney Lanier, Hymns of the Marshes (1907)

Wilson Lumpkin, The Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia (1907)

Lawton Bryan Evans, A History of Georgia for Use in Schools (1908)

Allen D. Candler, The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia (1908)

Eliza Frances Andrews, The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 (1908)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Gilbert Neal (1908)

William Stephens, A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia (1908)

C.E. Jones, Georgia in the War, 1861-1865 (1909)

Will Nathaniel Harben, The Redemption of Kenneth Galt (1909)

Hugh M'Call, The History of Georgia: Containing Brief Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events Up to the Present Day (1784) (1909)

Allen D. Candler, The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia (1910)

Allen D. Candler, The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (1910)

Augusta Jane Evans, St. Elmo (1910)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Dixie Hart (1910)

Corra Harris, A Circuit Rider's Wife (1910)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)

Rebecca Latimer Felton, "My Memoirs of Georgia Politics" (1911)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Jane Dawson (1911)

Walter McElreath, A Treatise on the Constitution of Georgia (1912)

Corra Harris, The Recording Angel (1912)

William J. Northen ed., Men of Mark in Georgia (1912)

B.M. Zettler, War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children (1912)

Robert Preston Brooks, History of Georgia (1913)

Ulrich B. Phillips, The Life of Robert Toombs (1913)

Will Nathaniel Harben, The New Clarion (1914)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Negro (1915)

Will Nathaniel Harben, The Inner Law (1915)

Clara Mildred Thompson, Reconstruction in Georgia (1915)

Corra Harris, A Circuit Rider's Widow (1916)

Will Nathaniel Harben, Second Choice (1916)

Folks Huxford, History of Clinch County, Georgia (1916)

Georgia Historical Society, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. One (1917)

Will Nathaniel Harben, The Triumph (1917)

Joel Chandler Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus (1917)

Mary Marella Hayden, Georgia During the Civil War (1917)

Lucian Lamar Knight, A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians (1917)

James Ross McCain, Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust (1917)

James Morris Morgan, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer (1917)

Will Nathaniel Harben, The Hills of Refuge (1918)

Corra Harris, Making Her His Wife (1918)

Rebecca Latimer Felton, Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth (c 1919)

Will Nathaniel Harben, The Cottage of Delight (1919)

W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil (1920)

Corra Harris, Happily Married (1920)

Will Nathaniel Harben, The Divine Event (1920)

Corra Harris, My Son (1921)

Corra Harris, The Eyes of Love (1922)

Georgia Douglas Johnson, Bronze: A Book of Verse (1922)

Edward J. Thomas, Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923. (1923)

Sidney Lanier, Poems of Sidney Lanier (1928)

Levi Branham, My Life and Travels, (1929)

Count G. Gibson, Sea Islands of Georgia, Their Geologic History (1948)

E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye, A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia (1949)

Frank Kells Boland, The First Anesthetic: The Story of Crawford Long (1950)

Willard Range, The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 (1951)

T. Conn Bryan, Confederate Georgia (1953)

E. Merton Coulter, Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold-Mining Town (1956)

Berry Fleming, Autobiography of a Colony: The First Half-Century of Augusta, Georgia (1957)

Merritt B. Pound, Benjamin Hawkins, Indian Agent (1957)

William Omer Foster, Sr., James Jackson, Duelist and Militant Statesman, 1757-1806 (1960)

James C. Bonner, A History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860 (1964)

Oliver Hall Shadgett, The Republican Party in Georgia: from Reconsturction through 1900 (1964)

John F. Stegeman, These Men She Gave: Civil War Diary of Athens, Georgia (1964)

Harold W. Mann, Atticus Greene Haygood: Methodist Bishop, Editor, and Educator (1965)

E. Merton Coulter, The Toombs Oak, The Tree that Owned Itself, and Other Chapters of Georgia (1966)

Spencer B. King, Jr., Georgia Voices: A Documentary History to 1872 (1966)

E Merton Coulter, William Montague Brown: Versatile Anglo-Irish American, 1823-1883 (1967)

Tom Henderson Wells, The Slave Ship Wanderer (1968)

Albert B. Saye, A Constitutional History of Georgia, 1732-1968 (1970)

E. Merton Coulter, Daniel Lee, Agriculturist: His Life North and South (1972)

Ernest C. Hynds, Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia (1974)

Harold H. Martin, William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (1978)

E. Merton Coulter, College Life in the Old South (1983)

Rodney M. Baine (ed.), Creating Georgia: Minutes of the Bray Associates, 1730-1732 & Supplementary Documents (1995)

Germaine M. Reed, Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty (1995)

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938: Georgia (2006)

George C. Stoney, "Suffrage in the South Part I: The Poll Tax" , 29 Survey Graphic 5 (Jan. 1, 1940)

George C. Stoney, "Suffrage in the South, Part II: The One Party System" 29 Survey Graphic 163 (March 1, 1940)

William B. Rhoads, "Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Architecture of Warm Springs," The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXVII, No. 1, Spring 1983.

Douglas L. Fleming, "The New Deal in Atlanta: A Review of the Major Programs," The Atlanta Historical Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1, Spring 1986.

Jane Walker Herndon, "Ed Rivers and Georgia's 'Little New Deal'," The Atlanta Historical Journal, Volume XXX, Number 1, Spring 1986.

William Warren Rogers, Jr., "The Death of a President, April 12, 1945: An Account from Warm Springs,"The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXXV, No. 1, Summer 1991.

Paul Stephen Hudson, "A Call for 'Bold Persistent Experimentation': FDR's Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, 1932," The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXXVII, No. 2, Summer 1994.

Online articles published 1989-2000 in the Journal of the Historical Society of the Georgia National Guard

• B.I. Diamond, "'Back in 1938 A Fella Needed All the Money He Could Get': A Georgia Guardsman, The Mobilization and the War"
• Gordon R. Elwell, "250 Years Later: Bloody Marsh Revisited"
• Bernard Fontaine, "The Origin of the Georgia Militia"
• Joe Griffith, "Fighting for Texas: Georgians and the Battle for Texas Independence"
• Joe Griffith, Georgians in the War With Mexico, 1846-1848"
• Joe Griffith, "Joe Brown's Pikes: Southern Cold Steel in Close Quarters"
• James F. Hill, "Chickamauga! On Their Native Soil Georgians Shattered the Union Advance"
• A.J. Morrow, "Ambush at Anciaux's Wharf (1811)"
• A.J. Morrow, "Those Who Stayed Behind: The Georgia State Guard in World War II"
• Thomas G. Rodgers, "Night Attack at Calabee Creek" (1813)
• James H. Wilbanks, "Georgia's Naval Militia: Still Authorized, Still Ignored, and Still Disbanded"

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