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Atlanta History Center

Atlanta History Center , founded in 1926 as the Atlanta Historical Society, includes permanent and traveling exhibitions in the Atlanta History Museum, two historic houses (Tullie Smith Farm and Swan House mansion), archives/special libraries, and 33 acres of beautiful gardens and wooded trails. The Atlanta History Center offers historical experiences for all ages, integrating history, education and life enrichment programs.

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  • The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

    Wed, Aug 19, 2009
    Reporter Marc Wortman depicts Atlanta's siege and fall in *The Bonfire*, a narrative history told through the eyes of Confederate and Union participants. The only American city to have been besieged and destroyed, Atlanta’s destruction during the Civil War is an iconic moment in American history.
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  • Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

    Tue, Jun 9, 2009
    Liaquat Ahamed discusses his book, *Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World*, and covers the 2009 financial crisis.
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  • Upton's Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War

    Sun, Jul 12, 2009
    Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. discusses his book, *Upton's Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War*. This is the first comprehensive history of the regiment in nearly ninety years. His talk begins by describing the memorial dedicated to this group of heroic "band of brothers."
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  • Sam Richards' Civil War Diary

    Sun, Jul 12, 2009
    Georgia State University professor Wendy Hamand Venet discusses her book, *Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front*. Richards' diary includes the period from October 1860 to August 1865. His observations cover the Union bombardment of Atlanta, the evacuation of Confederate forces, and the entry of the Union Army into the city.
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  • James Bradley: The Imperial Cruise

    Wed, Dec 9, 2009
    Writer James Bradley discusses his new book, *The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War*. It's the true story of a 1905 cruise arranged by President Teddy Roosevelt sending Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice, and a group of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There they would quietly forge a series of agreements that divided up Asia.
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    Seth Grahame-Smith: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    Wed, Mar 17, 2010
    Seth Grahame-Smith discusses his book, *Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter*. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for reuniting the North with the South and abolishing slavery from our country, no one has ever known about his valiant fight against the forces of the undead. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the bestselling novel *Pride and Prejudice and Zombies*, stumbled upon *The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln*, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide, Grahame-Smith has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time - all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War, and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
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  • Theda Perdue: Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895

    Wed, Mar 24, 2010
    Theda Perdue, Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina, discusses her book *Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895*. The book examines the world's fair held in Atlanta, where white organizers - in order to attract business to the area - hoped to demonstrate they had solved problems of race in the city. The exposition featured American Indians, African Americans, and other racial, ethnic, and gender communities as part of the event's installations. Perdue finds that this turn-of-the-century performance of race played out in surprising ways, particularly in terms of the voice this event gave to the minorities who took part.
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  • Einstein: His Life and Universe

    Wed, Apr 18, 2007
    Walter Isaacson, author of the mega-selling, acclaimed biography of Benjamin Franklin, discusses his latest work focused on the most influential scientist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein. This is the first full biography written about this great icon since all of his papers became available. Isaacson looks at his science, personal life, and politics, and attempts to explain how his mind worked, who the real Einstein was, and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered.
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  • Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson

    Tue, Jun 23, 2009
    Writer David O. Stewart delves into his latest work, *Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy*. The chronicle traces the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson to its roots in the social and political revolutions that rocked the south with the end of slavery and the Civil War. Stewart is also the bestselling writer of *The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution*.
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  • Taylor Branch: The Clinton Tapes

    Tue, Oct 13, 2009
    Taylor Branch talks about his book, *The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President*, an account of President Bill Clinton's confidential diary project, aimed at preserving the fullest record of his administration. The book is based on 78 diary sessions between 1993 and 2001.
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