Mr. Wilson's Georgia History Website Hendricks Middle School- Cumming, GA
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  • 1st Semester Units
    • Unit 1- Geography of Georgia
    • Unit 2- Prehistoric Georgia/ Age of Exploration
    • Unit 3- Colonial Georgia
    • Unit 4- The American Revolution in Georgia >
      • Nancy Hart
      • Austin Dabney
      • Sgt. William Jasper
      • The Chasseurs
      • Count Casimir Pulaski
    • Unit 5- Georgia Statehood and Indian Removal
    • Unit 6A- Antebellum Georgia
    • Unit 6B- Georgia and the Civil War
  • 2nd Semester Units
    • Unit 7- Reconstruction in Georgia
    • Unit 8- The New South and Progressive Era in Georgia
    • Unit 9- Georgia Between Two Wars
    • Unit 10- Georgia's Government >
      • Foundations of Ga. Government
      • The Legislative Branch
      • The Executive Branch
      • The Judicial Branch
      • The Juvenile Justice System
      • Local Government
    • Unit 11- Modern Georgia >
      • Post-WW2 Georgia
      • The Civil Rights Era
      • Modern Georgia
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Pre-Colonial
Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier. Durham, 1928
Hudson, Charles, ed. Four Centuries of Southern Indians. Athens, 1975
Hudson, Charles. Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Athens, 1997
Jones, Charles C., Jr. Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes. New York, 1873
Lanning, John T. The Spanish Missions of Georgia. Chapel Hill, 1935
McEwan, Bonnie G. The Spanish Missions of La Florida. Gainesville, 1993
Swanton, John R. Early History of the Creeks Indians and their Neighbors. Bureau of Ethnology Bulletin 73. Washington, D.C., 1922
White, Max E. Georgia's Indian Heritage: The Prehistoric People and Historic Tribes of Georgia. Roswell, 1988

Colonial Georgia (1732-1776)
Abbot, William W. The Royal Governors of Georgia, 1754-1775. Chapel Hill, 1959
Amor, Danny, and Edward Cashin. Oglethorpe's London: A Cabbie's Tour of Colonial Georgia Sites. Augusta, 2002
Baine, Rodney M., ed. The Publications of James Edward Oglethorpe.  Athens, 1994
Cashin, Edward. Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier. Athens, 1992
Cashin, Edward. Colonial Augusta: "Key to the Indian Countrey." Macon, 1986
Coleman, Kenneth. Colonial Georgia: A History. New York, 1976
Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, Vol. VII, Pt. I "Letters of Montano, Siege of St. Augustine." Savannah, 1909
Conner, Judson J. Muskets, Knives and Bloody Marshes: The Fight for Colonial Georgia. St. Simons Island, Georgia, 2001
Coulter, E. Merton, and Albert B. Saye, eds. A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia. Athens, 1949
Davis, Harold E. The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776. Chapel Hill, 1976
Etheridge, Willie Snow. Strange Fires: The True Story of John Wesley's Love Affair in Georgia. New York, 1971
Galley, Alan. The Formation of the Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. Athens, 1989
Garrison, Webb. Oglethorpe's Folly: The Birth of Georgia. Lakemont, Ga., 1982
Jackson, Harvey H., and Phinizy Spalding, eds. Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia. Athens, 1984
Johnson, Edith Duncan. The Houstouns of Georgia. Athens, 1950
Jones. Charles C., Jr. The Dead Towns of Georgia. Savannah, 1878
Jones. Charles C., Jr. Historical Sketch of Tomochichi, Mico of the Yamacraws. New York, 1868
Lambert, Frank. James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia. Athens, 2005
McCain, James R. Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust. Boston, 1917
McIlvaine, Paul. The Dead Town of Sunbury, Georgia. Hendersonville, N.C., 1971
Parker, Anthony W. Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruiting, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735-1748. Athens, 1997
Temple, Sarah Gober, and Kenneth Coleman. Georgia Journeys, 1732-1754. Athens, 1961
Reese, Trevor R., ed. The Clamourous Malcontents: Criticisms and Defenses of the Colony of Georgia, 1741-1743. Savannah, 1973
Reese, Trevor R., ed. The Most Delightful Country in the Universe: Promotional Literature of the Colony of Georgia. Savannah, 1972
Reese, Trevor R., ed. Our First Visit to America: Early Reports from the Colony of Georgia. Savannah, 1974
Roberts, R. A., ed. Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of Viscount Percival, Afterwards First Earl of Egmont. 3 Vol. London, 1920-23
Spalding, Phinizy, and Harvey H. Jackson. Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years. Tuscaloosa, 1989
Strobel, P.A. The Salzburgers and Their Descendants. Philadelphia, 1855
Sweet, Julie Anne. Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733-1752. Athens, 2005
Wood, Betty. Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775. Athens, 1984

Revolutionary Georgia (1776-1781)
Coleman, Kenneth. The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789. Athens, 1958
Jenkins, Charles F. Button Gwinnett. New York, 1926


The Indian Expulsion and Westward Expansion (1781-1840)

Antebellum Georgia (1840-1860)

The Civil War (1861-1865)

Reconstruction in Georgia (1865-1876)

"New South" Georgia (1876- 1917)

Rise of Modern Georgia (1918-1945)

Modern Georgia (1945-Present)

General Interests/ Overviews
Avery, Issac W. The History of the State of Georgia from 1850 to 1881. New York, 1881
Brooks, Robert Preston. History of Georgia. Atlanta, 1913
Candler, Allen D. & Clement A. Evans. Cyclopedia of Georgia. 4 Vol. Atlanta, 1906
Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library at Wormsloe, Isle of Hope near Savannah Georgia. 3. Vol. Wormsloe, 1931
Coleman, Kenneth, ed. A History of Georgia.  Athens, 1977
Coleman, Kenneth and Charles S. Gurr, eds. Dictionary of Georgia Biography. 2 Vol. Athens, 1983
Cooper, Walter G. The Story of Georgia. 4 Vol. New York, 1938
Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia. Chapel Hill, 1933
Evans, Lawton B. A History of Georgia for Use in Schools. New York, 1898
Evans, Lawton B. First Lesson in Georgia History. New York, 1913
Georgia: A Guide to Its Towns and Countryside. Athens, 1940
Hill, James L. A Sourcebook for Teachers of Georgia History. Columbus, 1986
Johnson, Amanda. Georgia as Colony and State. Atlanta, 1938
King, Spencer B. Georgia Voices: A Documentary History to 1872. Athens, 1966
Knight, Lucian Lamar. A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians. 6 Vol. Chicago, 1917
Knight, Lucian Lamar. Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends. 2 Vol. Atlanta, 1913, 1914
Knight, Lucian Lamar. Reminiscences of Famous Georgians. 2 Vol. Atlanta, 1907, 1908
Lane, Mills, ed. The People of Georgia, An Illustrated History. Savannah, 1992
Lane, Mills, ed. Georgia: History Written by Those Who Lived It. Savannah, 1995
McCall, Hugh. The History of Georgia, Containing Brief Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events up to the Present Day (1784). 2 Vol. Savannah, 1811, 1816
Mitchell, Frances Letcher. Georgia Land and People. Atlanta, 1900
Rowland, Arthur R. and James E. Dorsey. A Bibliography of the Writings on Georgia History 1900-1970. Spartanburg, 1978
Saye, Albert B. New Viewpoints in Georgia History. Athens, 1943
Smith, Charles H. "Bill Arp". A School History of Georgia, Georgia as a Colony and State 1733-1893. Boston, 1896
Stevens, William Bacon. A History of Georgia. 2 Vol. New York, 1847
White, George. Historical Collections of Georgia. New York, 1854

Religion
Malone, Henry Thompson. The Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1733-1957. Atlanta, 1960
Rubin, Rabbi Saul Jacob. Third to None: The Saga of Savannah Jewry 1733-1983. Savannah, 1983

Government
Cook, James. The Governors of Georgia, 1754-1995. Macon, 1995
Rowan, Bobby. Georgia's Modern Day Legislature: A Personal History of Georgia Politics, 1962-1998. Pine Mountain, 1999
Saye, Albert B. The Constitutional History of Georgia, 1739-1945. Athens, 1948

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