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Bibliography for Atlanta, Georgia
Children's Literature
Links to Atlanta Tourism and Preservation
Links to Sites featured in the Atlanta Travel Itinerary
Bibliography
for Atlanta, Georgia
Ambrose, Andy. Atlanta: An Illustrated History. Athens,
Georgia: Hill Street Press, 2003.
Bayor, Ronald H. Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Castel, Albert E. Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign
of 1864. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansa, 1992.
Cohen, Rodney T. Black Colleges of Atlanta. Charleston,
South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Craig, Robert M. and Richard Guy Wilson. Atlanta Architecture:
Art Deco to Modern Classic, 1929-1959. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican
Publishing Co., 1995.
Davis, Stephen. Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and
the Yankee Heavy Battalions (American Crisis Series, No. 3).
Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
Galloway, Tammy Harden. The Inman Family: An Atlanta Family
from Reconstruction to World War I. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University
Press, 2002.
Gournay, Isabelle, Gerald Sams and Dana White AIA Guide to the
Architecture of Atlanta. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia
Press, 1993.
Greene, Melissa Fay. The Temple Bombing. Reading, Massachusetts:
Addison-Wesley, 1996.
Hunter, Tera W. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives
and Labors After the Civil War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 1997.
Kemp, Kathryn W. God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola.
Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2002.
Kuhn, Cliff, Harlon E. Joye, and E. Bernard West. Living Atlanta:
An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1990.
Kuhn, Cliff. Contesting the New South Order: The 1914-1915 Strike
at Atlanta's Fulton Mills. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2001.
Kurtz,Wilbur G. Historic Atlanta: A Brief Story of Atlanta
and Its Landmarks. Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1991.
McMurry, Richard M. Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy
(Great Campaigns of the Civil War Series). New York: Bison Books
Corp, 2001.
Mason, Herman, and Herman Mason Jr. African-American Entertainment
in Atlanta (Images of America). Charleston, South Carolina:
Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
Miles, Jim. Fields of Glory: A History and Tour Guide of the
Atlanta Campaign. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1995.
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. New York: Warner
Books, 1936, 1994.
Pomerantz, Gary M. Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga
of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta. New York: Scribner,
1996.
Roth, Darlene, and Andy Ambrose. Metropolitan Frontiers: A Short
History of Atlanta. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1996.
Roth, Darlene R., and Lori Parks. Greater Atlanta: An Illustrated
History of the Region, 2000.
Russell, James Michael. Atlanta, 1847-1890: City Building in
the Old South and the New. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1988.
Thompson, Joseph F., and Robert Isbell. Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoods.
Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.
Children's
Literature
Beatty, Patricia. Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee. Mahwah, New
Jersy: Troll Communications L.L.C., 1990.
Harris, Joel Chandler. The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus.
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
Kent, Deborah. Atlanta. New York: Scholastic Library Publishing,
2001.
Snow, Pegeen. Atlanta. EngleWood Cliffs, New Jersey: Silver
Burdett Press, 1989.
Links
to Atlanta Tourism and Preservation
Atlanta
History Center
Offering exhibits, programs and an extensive archival collection
that encompass the city's history, the Atlanta History Center is
also the caretaker of four historic properties, including the Tullie
Smith House and Swan House.
Atlanta Preservation Center
The city's only independent advocate for historic buildings, neighborhoods
and landscapes, this non-profit organization has worked with government,
business and community leaders to preserve more than 100 endangered
residential and commercial structures and neighborhoods. They also
offer regular walking tours of many neighborhoods in the city.
Atlanta
Convention and Visitors Bureau
A site dedicated to vacationing, dining, shopping and transporation
in Atlanta.
Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources
This office of the Georgia State government promotes the preservation
and use of historic places for a better Georgia. Properties are
nominated to the National Register through their office.
Georgia
Trust for Historic Preservation
This local non-profit promotes an appreciation of Georgia's diverse
historic resources and provides for their protection and use to
preserve, enhance and revitalize Georgia's communities.
Georgia Historical Society
One of the oldest historical organizations in the nation, the Georgia
Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization that serves
as the historical society for the people of Georgia.
Georgia
Department of Industry Trade & Tourism
Discover what the state of Georgia has to offer at the website for
the state's Department of Travel. Find out about upcoming events,
accomodations and entertainment or order a brochure before you travel
to Atlanta in person.
Chattahoochee River National
Recreation Area, National Park Service
Located north and northeast of downtown Atlanta, the Recreation
Area follows a 48-mile stretch of the Chattahoochee River. In addition
to providing recreational activities such as fishing, hiking, picnicking
and boating, the park contains a wide variety of natural habitats,
flora and fauna, 19th-century historic sites and American Indian
archeological sites.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield
Park
Martin Luther King
Jr., National Historic Site Historic Resource Study
Provides an historical overview of the historic park and identifies
the park's cultural resources within its historic context.
Jimmy
Carter Library and Museum
Part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National
Archives and Records Administration, this research facility and
a museum contains Carter's White House papers, documents, memoranda,
over a million photographs, and hundreds of hours of audio and visual
tape.
Historic
American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
The HABS/HAER program documents important architectural, engineering
and industrial sites throughout the United States and its territories.
Their collections, including a number of Atlanta sites, are archived
at the Library of Congress and available online. You can view these
by clicking on the link above and entering the search term "Atlanta."
National
Trust for Historic Preservation
Learn about the programs of, and membership in, the oldest national
nonprofit preservation organization.
Historic
Hotels of America
A feature of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Heritage
Traveler program that provides information on historic hotels and
package tours in the vicinity of this itinerary.
National Park Service Office
of Tourism
National Parks have been interwoven with tourism from their earliest
days. This website highlights the ways in which the National Park
Service promotes and supports sustainable, responsible, informed,
and managed visitor use through cooperation and coordination with
the tourism industry.
Links to
Sites featured in the Atlanta Travel Itinerary
Academy of Medicine
Ansley
Park Historic District
Atlanta Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments
Atlanta
City Hall
Atlanta
University Center
Brookwood Hills Historic District
Callanwolde
Castleberry
Hill Historic District
Central
Presbyterian Church
Church
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Crescent
Apartments/ Margaret Mitchell House and Museum
Druid
Hills Historic District
Emory
University
Fairlie-Poplar
Historic District
Fort
McPherson
Fox
Theater
Garden
Hill Historic District
Georgia
Institute of Technology
Georgia
State Capitol
Georgian Terrace Hotel (Fox Theater Historic District)
Grant
Park Historic District
Herndon
Home
Inman
Park and Inman Park-Moreland Historic Districts
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield
Park
Oakland Cemetery
Martin Luther King Jr., National
Historic Site
Piedmont
Park
Rhodes
Memorial Hall
Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception
St.
Mark Methodist Church
Stone
Hall, Atlanta University
Swan
House
Sweet Auburn Historic District
The
Temple
Tullie
Smith House
Underground Atlanta
William P. Nicholson House
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