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In "Atlanta and Environs," historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that
Oakland Cemetery is "Atlanta's most tangible link between the past
and the present." Within its forty-eight acres are more than
seventy thousand personal stories--of settlers and immigrants who
forged a city from a rowdy railroad camp, former slaves who carved
out lives in a segregated world, soldiers in blue and gray who were
cut down in a brutal civil war, and civic and business visionaries
who rebuilt the Phoenix City from the ashes of war and carried it
to prominence on the international stage.
Today, Atlanta's oldest public cemetery remains a must-see
destination for anyone interested in the city's colorful story.
Past the grieving mien of the Lion of Atlanta, which guards nearly
three thousand unknown Confederate soldiers, visitors can pay
respect to those who made Atlanta history--former slave Carrie
Steele Logan, who founded the first orphanage for African American
children; Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where Coca-Cola was
first served as a fountain drink; Morris and Emanuel Rich, founders
of the storied Rich's Department Stores; golfing Grand Slam legend
Bobby Jones; "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell; Maynard
Jackson, the city's first African American mayor, and many others.
Aside from its importance as a historic site, Oakland is among the
nation's finest examples of a rural garden cemetery, characteristic
of the nineteenth-century movement to transform stark burial
grounds into pastoral landscapes for both the repose of the dead
and the enjoyment of the living.
With Ren and Helen Davis's engaging narrative, rich photography,
archival images, and detailed maps, "Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery" is
a versatile guide for touring the cemetery's landscape of
remembrance, as well as a unique way to explore Atlanta's history.
A Friends Fund Publication. Published in association with the
Historic Oakland Foundation.
This stunning, fully illustrated history of the Georgia Capitol not
only pays tribute to a grand old edifice but also vividly recounts
the history that was made - and that continues to be made - within
and without its walls. The Georgia Capitol is a place where, for
more than a century, legislators have debated, governors have
proclaimed, and courts have ruled. It is also a place where
countless ordinary citizens have gathered in lively tour groups,
angry protest mobs, and at times solemn funeral processions. As
Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee move through the major
periods in the Capitol's history, they tell three interwoven
stories. One is a tale of the building itself, its predecessors,
its design and construction, its occasionally ill-considered
renovations, and the magnificent, decade-long restoration begun in
1996. Also revealed is how the gradual accumulation of statues,
flags, portraits, and civic rituals and pageants has added new
layers of meaning to an already symbolic structure. The third story
the authors tell is of the legislative and judicial battles that
sought to limit or extend democratic freedoms. Some of these events
were high drama: fisticuffs during a prohibition debate, Eugene
Talmadge's strong-arm eviction of the state treasurer from the
statehouse, the Three Governors Controversy, and an African
American protest in the segregated cafeteria. From the laying of
the cornerstone in 1885 to the present, successive generations of
Georgians have created a distinctive history in and around the
Capitol as they have exercised, or sought to gain, their rights.
Today the Georgia Capitol remains a working center of state
government, and its history continues to unfold.
This collection of secondary sources on such topics as family,
children, work, and housing is organized around the human life
cycle. Readings are arranged chronologically, with an alternate
topical table of contents by subject. The readings focus mainly on
middle-class American life, and there is an emphasis throughout on
urban life. The selections show the development of lifestyles, the
changes in daily life patterns, and changes in attitudes over time
in America. There is a general introduction to each of the book's
major parts.
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