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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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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Home Improvements

by W. Todd Groce, Ph.D. Most folks are aware that the Georgia Historical Society is home to the first and oldest collection of Georgia history in the nation. But few…

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