by Bill Shipp This September we are reprinting a new edition of Bill Shipp’s award-winning Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan. In his book, longtime Atlanta Constitution reporter Bill Shipp, reports on the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a…
We are giving away FIVE copies of Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan to mark the publication of the new edition of Bill Shipp’s award-winning. To enter to win 1 out of 5 copies, like this post & follow us. Completing each of these 2 steps…
On April 1, Dr. Edward Hatfield began work as the new Managing Editor for the New Georgia Encyclopedia. Hatfield earned his M.A. in history at the University of Georgia in 2006 and completed his Ph.D. in history at Emory University in 2015. He is currently an editorial board member for Atlanta Studies, the open access digital…
The racist violence that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend has already inspired the #CharlottesvilleCurriculum and #CharlottesvilleSyllabus hashtags, around which great scholarship and articles are being shared. The University of Georgia Press has published many books on race, slavery, the Civil War, civil rights, and the horrors of bigotry and racism in America. As an…
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Today on the blog: An excerpt from Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras by Kristen Epps. In her book, Epps focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery’s rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War. This section explores the contours of the debate taking place at the time around expanding slavery into the West.
Maybe you are out of airline miles or don’t have enough gas money. Maybe the vacation days ran out, and you are looking to escape without leaving the comfort of your armchair. Or, perhaps, you are ready for your next road trip and need help deciding where to go. If any of these apply, we’ve…
On this day in 1964—nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act—Lemuel Penn, a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and veteran of World War II, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on the Broad River Bridge near the Madison-Elbert County line. This fall we’re reissuing veteran journalist Bill Shipp’s Murder…
18,000 people enter the lottery. Only 800 are selected. My sister was one. It had been raining the last couple of days–heavy downpours. Our mom tried to talk us out of going, but we were determined to see the fireflies. (Click here to learn more about the Synchronous Firefly lottery in Tennessee.) On June 5,…
As everybody on social media knows by now, today is National Bikini Day. The bikini made its debut in 1946 and hasn’t left the pool or beach in nearly sixty years. For this, we are indebted to the French designer Louis Reard. His then considered scandalous bikini style embodied the freedom recently won in World…
June 1, 2017—For the third consecutive year, the Georgia Center for the Book will participate in the Route One Reads initiative, a program under the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. In 2017, the theme of the initiative will be memoirs and biographies, and the selected book to represent Georgia is Blood,…
This week is pub week for Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder. With the blog series we tried to recreate the delayed nature of correspondence during the Civil War, with a modern twist. To conclude the series, we…
