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AASU
to host New Directions in Georgia History: A Symposium
Savannah, GA—June
6, 2005—The Consortium on Georgia History will sponsor a one-day
conference on Saturday, June 18, at Armstrong Atlantic State University
(AASU), from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in room 156 of University Hall. The
event is hosted by the AASU Department of History and is free and open
to the public.
The morning session will feature the following presentations:
"Troublesome Women in Colonial Georgia," "Everything Except
Eve and the Devil: Perceptions and Motivations Behind the Virginia Migration
to Georgia, 1782-1800," "Stalemate on the Ogeechee: The Archaeology
of the Civil War Naval Engagements on the Ogeechee River, Georgia,"
"Black Reconstruction in Georgia," "Postbellum Mormon Missionaries
in North Georgia," and "The Knights of Labor in Georgia Politics."
Topics for the afternoon session include:"New Negroes in the New
South: Black Intellectuals in Jim Crow Georgia," "River Rogue:
Brainard Cheney and the Agrarian Tradition," "Boomtown Hinesville:
The Impact of WWII on a Rural Georgia Town," "Entrepreneurship
and the Making of Modern Georgia," and "African Americans from
Georgia Shaping U. S. Policy Towards Africa: The Case of Mabel Murphy
Smythe."
Presenters come from Armstrong Atlantic State University, Georgia College
and State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Perimeter
College-Clarkston, Kennesaw State University, North Georgia College and
State University, University of Georgia, University of South Carolina,
and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
The Consortium on Georgia History was formed in 2000 and is a joint effort
of several centers for Georgia studies and departments of history around
the state, including Armstrong Atlantic State University, Augusta State
University's Center for the Study of Georgia History, The Center for Georgia
Studies at Georgia College and State University, Clayton State University,
Kennesaw State University's Center for Regional History & Culture,
and the history departments/faculty at the University of Georgia, Georgia
Southern University, Georgia State University, and Georgia Perimeter College.
For more information, contact Michael E. Price at AASU, 912.921.5695 or
pricemic@mail.armstrong.edu.
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