After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union
forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal …

In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve
families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second …

" This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and
memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats …

Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time
of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I and II, together more than two …

Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to
drudgery in the red clay fields of Georgia. Within forty years of Emancipation, however, he …

This flowing, instantly engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival
of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to the uncertainties faced by its Civil War …

From the memories of everyday experience, Living Atlanta vividly recreates life in the city
during the three decades from World War I through World War II--a period in which a small …

Southern writer Willie Morris was in his twenties when he penned his autobiography, North
Toward Home (1967). Some critics wondered at the presumptive nature of such an …

After Reconstruction, against considerable odds, African Americans in Atlanta went about
such self-interested pursuits as finding work and housing. They also built community, says …

The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history--it was the centerpiece of
Gone with the Wind. But though the epic sieges of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Berlin have all …