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Introducing the 2021 Georgia Trustees: Juanita Baranco
She calls herself an introvert, but very few others who know Juanita Baranco would use that word to describe her. Executive, attorney, advocate, community activist, wife, mother, and leader…
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Digital Education for Georgia’s Students: Newspapers in Education
Each year the Georgia Historical Society (GHS) partners with the Georgia Press Association (GPA) to publish relevant, standards-based educational resources for schools across Georgia called Newspapers in…
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Collection Highlights: Letters from Lois
This week GHS is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day or Operation Overlord. Using materials from the GHS…
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Marker Monday: Spelman College Women Who Serve
Inspired by the theme presented by the National Women’s History Alliance, for National Women’s History Month (NWHM) 2019, “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence,” and in partnership with…
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Collection Highlights: Letter from Helen Dortch Longstreet encouraging Frances Perkins, United States Secretary of Labor
Letter from Helen Dortch Longstreet to Frances Perkins, United States Secretary of Labor under FDR, 1934, Helen Dortch Longstreet papers…
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Marker Monday: Home of Alice Harrell Strickland — Georgia’s First Woman Mayor
Inspired by the theme presented by the National Women’s History Alliance, for National Women’s History Month (NWHM) 2019, “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence,” and in partnership with…
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Collection Highlights: Health Center Nurses in 1922
Health Center nurses in front of a building at Charlton and Drayton, Foltz Photography Studio (Savannah,…
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Classroom Connections for Georgia Studies: Women’s History in Georgia’s Classrooms
Inspired by the theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019, #Balance for Better, and in partnership with the League of Women Voters Coastal Georgia for…
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Collection Highlights: 1968 NAACP Newsletter
Inspired by the theme presented by the…
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