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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Almost a Miracle: America's War of Independence

    Tue, Aug 7, 2007
    John Ferling discusses this chronicle of America's struggle for independence, an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle."
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  • Clinging to Mammy: Our Relationship with Slavery

    Sun, Oct 21, 2007
    Micki McElya, professor of American studies at the University of Alabama examines why we cling to the notion of "mammy." She argues that the figure of the loyal slave has played a powerful role in modern American politics and culture. Stories of faithful slaves expose the power and reach of the myth, not only in popular advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement. If we are to reckon with the continuing legacy of slavery in the United States, McElya argues, we must confront the depths of our desire for mammy and recognize its full racial implications.
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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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  • 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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  • Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

    Sun, Nov 11, 2007
    Edward J. Larson discusses his book, *A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign*, which tells the fascinating story behind the fierce election battle between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the first true campaign for the presidency and one that almost broke the back of our democracy. The election of 1800 ushered in the party system, drawing the lines of partisan battle that would reshape our politics, while also preserving the institution of democracy. Edward J. Larson holds the Darling chair in law at Pepperdine University and is the Russell professor of American history at the University of Georgia. He is the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history for his book *Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion*.
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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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