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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Jonathan Alter: President Obama, Year One

    Wed, May 26, 2010
    Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek, discusses his new book, *The Promise: President Obama, Year One*. He provides a fast-paced inside account of the breakneck speed with which Barack Obama began making critical decisions and assuming the burdens of office amid the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. With dozens of exclusive details about everything from the selection of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state to the president’s personal secrets for running a good meeting, Alter paints a portrait of a highly disciplined and self-aware president and his team.
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  • John Burrison: From Mud to Jug

    Sat, Jun 12, 2010
    John Burrison, professor of English and the director of the folklore curriculum at Georgia State University, discusses his new book *From Mud to Jug*. The focus of this sequel to *Brothers in Clay* is on northeast Georgia, which has maintained a continuous tradition of pottery making since the early 19th century. Through interviews, a census of active potters, and more than 100 color photographs of pots, potters, and their work spaces, Burrison captures the living tradition of one of the last areas of the United States where Euro-American folk pottery is still being made.
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    Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain

    Tue, Apr 13, 2010
    Roy Morris, Jr. discusses his new book, *Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain*. Mark Twain is arguably the most famous and influential writer in American history. His legacy is defined by *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* and *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*. Little is known, however, about the crucial years during which Samuel Clemens transformed himself into the beloved American writer we celebrate today as Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens traveled by stagecoach to the Wild West in 1861 as an ex-Confederate guerilla and unemployed riverboat pilot, and returned six years later as Mark Twain. *Lighting Out for the Territory* tells how Samuel Clemens reinvented himself, while evading Indians and gunslingers, failing as a miner, dodging duels, surfing in Hawaii, and more trouble along the way. Backed by solid scholarship, this is the first full-length study of Twain's life-changing time in the American West, where he began his writing career and shaped himself into an American favorite.
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