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A Date worth Remembering
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. Twenty years ago this summer the Georgia Historical Society regained control over its destiny and fundamentally changed how GHS fulfilled its mission and how history…
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Maintaining a State of Innovation
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) has become a common buzzword in the field of education. The acronym was forged a few years ago by…
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Strength for the Ages
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. In recent years, we have all heard and read stories about tremendous financial difficulties that have led venerable non-profit institutions to the brink of collapse….
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Strength for the Ages
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. Originally published in Georgia History Today, Volume 10, Numbers 1&2. In recent years, we have all heard and read stories about tremendous financial…
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We Have Nothing to Fear From the Past
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. A colleague recently told me about a student in Poland who wrote to him before the fall of the Iron Curtain begging for American history…
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Heeding the Lessons of the Past
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. The 1980s marked the beginning of the most explosive economic expansion in our state’s history. The recession of the late 2000s slowed the pace of…
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The Right Leaders for the Job
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. There’s an old saying that an organization is only as good as the people who lead it. That’s why the Georgia Historical Society has been…
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The World of 1839 and 2014
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. There is a common misconception that historical organizations are a refuge for those disillusioned with the present, a bastion for old fogies who prefer looking…
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Saving the Stories of the Past
by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. Recently on eBay—that addictive web site for collectors of anything—I came across an extraordinary collection whose fate illustrates the challenges we face when it comes…
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A New Chapter for the Georgia Archives
If you haven’t noticed, something big happened recently in…
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