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Colonial Period and Early Statehood:
Carolina Proprietors' Land Grant for Azilia (1717)
Georgia Charter of 1732
Georgia Trustees May 10, 1733 order
Moravians in Georgia, 1735-40
1757 Georgia law to encourage immigration by debtors
1758 act dividing Georgia into parishes
1741 Map of William Horton Plantation
Frederica Town Plan, 1742
1774 colonial Georgia law to prohibit murder of free Indians
Resolutions adopted by the Aug. 10, 1774 assembly of Georgia patriots at Tondee's Tavern in Savannah
Georgia's Ordinance Ratifying the U.S. Constitution (1788)
Burning of the Yazoo Act
Antebellum Era:
May 10, 1838 address to Cherokees by Gen. Winfield Scott
May 17, 1838 general order by Gen. Winfield Scott to troops
U.S. Treaties with Georgia Cherokees
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831)
1830 Georgia Map Showing Cherokee Nation
Creek Treaties Related to Georgia
Georgia General Assembly Resolution of Feb. 6, 1850
Georgia General Assembly Act of Feb. 8, 1850
"Georgia Platform" of Dec. 10, 1850
Joint Resolution of Georgia General Assembly relative to Nebraska Bill (Feb. 20, 1854)
Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address Before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860
Civil War:
Act of Ga. General Assembly appropriating $1,000,000 for Georgia's defense, Nov. 16, 1860
Act of Ga General Assembly authorizing secession convention, Nov. 21, 1860
Letter from Howell Cobb to the People of Georgia, Dec. 6, 1860
Georgia General Assembly Resolution of Dec. 19, 1860
Georgia's Ordinance of Secession, Jan. 19, 1861
Georgia's Civil War Constitution
Maps of Georgia Associated with the Civil War Era
Atlanta Provost Marshall Special Order, Aug. 12, 1862
Detail of a Union Army map showing the Dalton - Resaca area, 1864
Detail of a Union Army map showing the Resaca - Marietta area, 1864
Detail of a Union Army map showing the Marietta - Atlanta area, 1864
Sherman's Special Field Order No. 39, July 19, 1864
Hood's Field Order No. 14, Aug. 12, 1864
Sherman's Special Field Order No. 59, Aug. 23, 1864
Eyewitness account on the damage done to Atlanta by Sherman's forces, Dec. 7, 1864
Special Field Orders Issued by Gen. Sherman
Sherman's letters to Grant
Sherman's Dec. 17, 1864 letter to Confederate Gen. William Hardee
Savannah Republican editorial of Dec. 21, 1864
Photographs and Images Associated with Georgia during the Civil War
Late Nineteenth Century:
Ben Hill's "New South" address to University of Georgia graduates, July 31, 1871
Georgia Law Allowing Judicial Incorporation of Towns (1872)
1900-1950:
Frank v. State (Oct. 14, 1914) -- Georgia Supreme Court decision denying Leo Frank's motion for a new trial
Frank v. State (Nov. 14, 1914) -- Georgia Supreme Court decision affirming the trial and judgment in the Leo Frank case
FDR's Editorials for the Macon Telegraph (1925)
Photographs of FDR in Georgia
FDR's Speeches and Press Conferences in Georgia
Georgia Newspaper Articles and Editorials on FDR
"Hazel & Betty" Letter Describing Events Surrounding FDR's Death
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating live oak as state tree. (Feb. 25, 1937)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging the president to authorize a dam on the Savannah River (March 1, 1937)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly declaring Dec. 8, 1937 a state holiday to mark the unveiling of memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt in Gainesville (Dec. 3, 1937)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging the President of the U.S. to expedite a dam at Clarks Hill on the Savannah River (Feb. 10, 1939)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly establishing a "Georgian's Creed" (March 4, 1939)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly calling for the return of the locomotive "General" (March 24, 1939)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging Congress to direct the Postmaster General to issue a stamp honoring Thomas E. Watson (March 27, 1941)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assesmbly calling for creation of The Federation of the World (Jan. 31, 1946)
1951-Present Day:
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging Sen. Richard Russell to run for the presidency (Feb. 6, 1952)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging relocation of U.S. Naval Supply School from New Jersey to Athens (Feb. 6, 1952)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly calling for the teaching of U.S. history, geography, and civics (Feb. 15, 1952)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to federal aid to states (Feb. 15, 1952)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to federal income taxes (Feb. 15, 1952)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to federal regulation of utilities (Mar. 2, 1953)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging location of Air Force Academy in Spalding County (Mar. 2, 1953)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging Congressional funding of vocational education (Mar. 3, 1953)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly creating Georgia Commission on Education (Dec. 10, 1953)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly establishing Loyalty Day (Dec. 18, 1953)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to amending the U.S. Constitution to give states exclusive authority over education (Jan. 29, 1955)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to the operation of state schools (Jan. 31, 1955)
Joint Resollution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to separation of the races in the U.S. military (Feb. 8, 1955)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly regarding conferring with other southern states (Feb. 13, 1956)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly censuring the U.S. Attorney General (Feb. 13, 1956)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging Congress to protect American farmers (Feb. 13, 1956)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to Interpostiion (Mar. 9, 1956)
The "Southern Manifesto" (Mar. 1956)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to the Southern Governors' Conference (Feb. 1, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and civil rights legislation (Feb. 12, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to the importation of foreign goods (Feb. 15, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly relative to the Georgia Commission on Education (Feb. 15, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly commending Atlanta Public School Teachers Association for refusing to integrate (Feb. 26, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly condemning UNESCO (Mar. 7, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly urging Congress to declare the 14th and 15th Amendments void (Mar. 8, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly requesting Congress to increase tariff on textile imports (Mar. 13, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly impeaching certain U.S. Supreme Court Justices (Mar. 13, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly authorizing reconstruction of New Echota (Mar. 13, 1957)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly censuring the President (Feb. 14, 1958)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly proposing state rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Mar. 24, 1960)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating the brown thrasher as Georgia's official state bird and the bobwhite quail as the official state game bird (March 20, 1970).
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating the largemouth bass as the state fish (March 24, 1970)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating the honeybee as the state insect (April 18, 1975)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating staurolite, sharks tooth, and quartz and the official state mineral, fossil, and gem (March 18, 1976)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating the azalia as the state wildflower (April 19, 1979)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating "Georgia on My Mind" as official state song of Georgia (April 24, 1979)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating the Right Whale as the official state marine mammal (April 2, 1985)
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly designating the Knobbed Whelk as the official seashell of Georgia (April 16, 1987)
Act of the Georgia General Assembly designating the Tiger Swallowtail as the official state butterfly (April 4, 1988)
Act of the Georgia General Assembly designating the Gopher Tortoise as the official state reptile (March 30, 1989)
Act of the Georgia General Assembly designating the peach as the offical state fruit (April 7, 1995)
Act of the Georgia General Assembly designating Georgia as the poultry capital of the world (April 8, 1995)
Act of the Georgia General Assembly designating the peanut as the official state crop (April 19, 1995)
Act of the Georgia General Assembly designating English the official state language (April 25, 1996)
Act of the Georgia General Assembly designating the official state tartan (May 1, 1997)
Georgia's 2007 Drought Photo Gallery
Links to External Sites:
Colonial Period and Early Statehood:
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 Stephens, A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia
llen D. Candler, The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia
Revolutionary America - Rare Map Collection (Hargrett Library, University of Georgia)
Allen D. Candler, The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia
Treaty of Paris (1763)
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)
Antebellum Era:
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)
Text of the Treaty of New Echota
Accounts of the "Cherokee Trail of Tears"
Lewis Cass Justification of Cherokee Removal
Elias Boudinot's Editorials in The Cherokee Phoenix
Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832)
U.S. Senate Debate on Cherokee Removal
1836 Letter from John Ross to Congress protesting the Treaty of New Echota
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839
George White, Statistics of the State of Georgia (1849)
John Brown, Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (1855)
Civil War:
Robert Toombs' speech to the Georgia General Assembly, Nov. 13, 1860
Alexander Stephens' speech to the Georgia General Assembly, Nov. 14, 1860
Address of William L. Harris of Mississippi to the Georgia General Assembly
Response by President Lincoln to a letter from Alexander Stephens, Dec. 22, 1860
Joseph Jones, Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860 (1861)
Resolutions on secession adopted in Floyd County, Georgia, 1861
Extract from Alexander Stephens speech at Georgia Secession Convention, Jan. 1861
Alexander Stephens' "Cornerstone" speech, March 21, 1861
Confederate Muster Rolls (Georgia State Archives)
Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia: Held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861, Together with the Ordinances Adopted
Firsthand account of The Great Locomotive Chase
Gen. A.R. Lawton's General Order No. 1 (1862)
Sherman's 1864 Campaign War Map
A Woman's Wartime Journal: an Account of the Passage over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as recorded in the Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge
Clayton's Octavo Diary, 1861 (unpublished diary)
Julia Johnson Fisher, 1814-1885 Diary, 1864
Diary of William King, Cobb County, Georgia, 1864
Eliza Frances Andrews, The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-65
Civil War Letters and Diary of Charles Berry Senior, February 1864-July 1865
Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862 (Digital Library of Georgia)
Letters of Union Maj. Fredrick Winkler - 1864
Letters of Union Maj. Frederick Winkler - 1865
Letters of Union Capt. Henry Potter, May 1864
Diary of Union Pvt. Frederick Buerstatte, 1864-65
Diary of Union Capt. James Orr, Nov.-Dec. 1864
George N. Barnard, Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866)
Correspondence between Governor Brown and President Davis, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Act.
Letters of Pvt. Edmond Hardy Jones, 64th Ga. Infantry (Oct. 1863-Aug. 1864)
Milo Grow's Letters from the Civil War
Civil War Letters of the Christie Family, Atlanta, Georgia
Allen D. Candler, The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia
Banknotes Issued in Georgia During the Civil War
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Database (NPS)
From Manassas to Appomattox by Gen. James Longstreet (1912) (selected chapters)
James Morris Morgan, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer (1917)
Civil War Memoir of William Judkins, 22nd Ga. Volunteer Infantry (1907)
Late Nineteenth Century
A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (1865)
Joseph Addison Turner, The Cotton Planter's Manual (1865)
Freedman's Bureau Records for Georgia (selected records, 1865-1868)
Sidney Andrews, The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas (1866)
Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 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)
Thomas P. Janes, Hand-book of the State of Georgia (1876)
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)
Advance and Retreat by Gen. John. B. Hood (1880) (selected chapters)
Frances Butler Leigh, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (1883)
Henry Grady's "New South" speech, Dec. 22, 1886
Charles C. Jones, Jr., Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast (1888)
Joel Chandler Harris, Life of Henry W. Grady Including his Writings and Speeches (1890)
In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate, Speech by Charles F. Crisp to U.S. House of Representatives, Feb. 1, 1894
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895
Reminiscences of the Civil War by Gen. John B. Gordon (1903) (selected chapters)
Dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (1895)
Views of Atlanta and the Cotton States and International Exposition (1895)
Rebecca Latimer Felton, "My Memoirs of Georgia Politics" (1911)
Cotton States and International Exposition Photographs
Twentieth Century:
Walter McElreath, A Treatise on the Constitution of Georgia (1912)
Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech, Aug. 28, 1963
Jimmy Carter Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1977
Other Primary Source Links:
This Day in Georgia History (see "In Their Own Words" at bottom of each date listing)
Online Books and Articles Related to Georgia
Georgia Constitution Web Page
Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties
Historical Maps of Georgia
Georgia Historic Books from the Digital Library of Georgia
Digital Library of Georgia
This Week in Georgia Civil War History (Many Primary Sources Cited)
Civil Rights Digital Library
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