Teacher Guide and Additional Resources
Today in Georgia History
A joint project of the Georgia Historical Society and Georgia Public Broadcasting, Today In Georgia History is an exciting, award-winning educational project that focuses on an historical event or person associated with a particular day in Georgia history. The thirteen segments linked below cover topics related to James Edward Oglethorpe. To dig deeper, look for vocabulary, daily activities, and images credits under the resources section of each segment page.
- June 09, 1732: Georgia Charter Issued to Trustees
- February 12, 1733: Georgia Colony Founded
- July 11, 1733: First Jewish Settlers in Georgia
- March 09, 1734: Charles Wesley
- March 12, 1734: German Salzburgers Arrive in Georgia
- March 23, 1734: Georgia Indians in England
- October 18, 1735: Scottish Highlanders
- December 02, 1737: John Wesley
- October 05, 1739: Tomochichi
- July 07, 1742: Battle of Bloody Marsh
- October 25, 1760: George II
- June 30, 1785: James Oglethorpe Died
- May 26, 1936 Fort Frederica
Teacher Guide
Suggested Readings
Baine, Rodney M., and Williams Mary E. “Oglethorpe’s Missing Years.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 69, no. 2 (1985): 193-210. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40581354.
Boyd, Kenneth W., and Carroll Proctor Scruggs. Georgia Historical Markers: Coastal Counties. Atlanta, GA: Cherokee Pub., 1991.
Cate, Margaret Davis. Early Days of Coastal Georgia. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1955.
Cashin, Edward J. “Glimpses of Oglethorpe in Boswell’s Life of Johnson.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 88, no. 3 (2004): 398-405. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40584790.
Dick, Susan E., and Mandi Dale. Johnson. Savannah, 1733 to 2000: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2001.
Inscoe, John, ed. James Edward Oglethorpe: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy. Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1997.
Jackson, Harvey H., and Phinizy Spalding, ed. Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
Lane, Mills. Georgia: History Written by Those Who Lived It. Savannah, GA: Beehive Foundation, 1995.
Lannen, Andrew C. “James Oglethorpe and the Civil-Military Contest for Authority in Colonial Georgia, 1732-1749.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 95, no. 2 (2011): 203-31. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41304287.
Morrison, Mary Lane. Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia.
Ready, Milton. “The Georgia Trustees and the Malcontents: The Politics of Philanthropy.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 60, no. 3 (1976): 264-81. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40580293.
Sweet, Julie Anne. Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733-1752. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.
Sweet, Julie Anne. “Oglethorpe on America: Georgia’s Founder’s Thoughts on Independence.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 95, no. 1 (2011): 1-20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41304166.
Sweet, Julie Anne. “’These Difficulties…rather animate than daunt me’: James Oglethorpe as a Leader.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 99, no. 3 (2015)131-155.
Temple, Sarah Blackwell Gober., and Kenneth Coleman. Georgia Journeys. 1961.
Vaeth, J. Gordon. The Man Who Founded Georgia. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1968.
Wilkins, Thomas Hart. “James Edward Oglethorpe: South Carolina Slaveholder?” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 88, no. 1 (2004): 85-94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40584707.
Suggested Online Resources
Cashin, Edward J. “Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752.” New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Jackson, Edwin L.. “James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785).” New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Sullivan, Buddy . “Savannah.” New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Sweet, Julie A. “Battle of Bloody Marsh.” New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Sweet, Julie A. “Tomochichi (ca. 1644-1739).” New Georgia Encyclopedia.