The History of Athens, Georgia:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings
ONLINE RESOURCES
“Athens.” New Georgia Encyclopedia.
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2210&sug=y
Also see “Clarke County” and “University of Georgia.”
“Historic Images of Athens, Georgia.” Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript
Library.
http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/selections/athens/index.html
VERTICAL FILES
Georgia Cities and Counties-Athens:
Relevant folders include: General, African American History, Bibliography, Confederate Monument, Cook and Brother Armory, Double-Barreled Cannon, Historical Buildings (series of folders), Historic Preservation (series), Historical Societies, History (3 folders), Maps, Mills, State Normal School, Tree that Owns Itself
Clarke County (6 folders)
University of Georgia-History (3 folders), Reminiscences and Memories
ATHENS AND ITS HISTORY
Athens, Georgia, Home of the University of Georgia, 1801-1951. Athens, 1951.
F294 .A7 A44 1951
Athens Historian. Athens: Athens Historical Society, 1996.
F294 .A7 A842
Bondurant, John P. The First United Methodist Church, Athens, Georgia: Some
History and Recollections, and Its Trustees. Athens: J.P. Bondurant, 1988.
BX8481 .A844 B66 1988
Brook, R. P. A Brief History of the First Methodist Church. Athens: 1924.
LXK23 .C855 C65
Brown, Rodger Lyle. Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids who Rocked Athens, Georgia. Atlanta: Everthemore Books, 2003.
ML3534 .B774 2003
Coleman, Kenneth. Athens, 1861-1865, As Seen through Letters in the University of Georgia Libraries. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969.
LXC518 .M67 no. 8
Coleman, Kenneth. Confederate Athens. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1967.
F294.A7 C6
Coulter, E. Merton. College Life in the Old South. several eds.
LXK23 .C855 C65
Doster, Gary L. A Postcard History of Athens, Georgia. Athens: Athens
Historical Society, 2002.
F294 .A7 D67 2002
Evans, Tad. Athens, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings (Southern Banner) v. 1-5. Savannah: 2000.
F294 .A7 E83 2000
Franklin House Hotel History, Athens, Georgia. Atlanta: Group Five Architects and Designers.
TX941 .F7 F70
Gagnon, Michael John. Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870. Ph. D. diss., Emory University, 1999.
HC108 .A6 G34 1999a
Gibbs, Charles M. Sr. and L. Burns Gibbs. The History of the Athens Presbytery. 1978.
BX8968. A8 1978
Hajos, Albin. Hajos' Athens, Ga.: Photo-Gravures. Brooklyn, N. Y.: The Albertype Co., 1900.
F294 .A7 H2
Hand-book of Athens and Souvenir of the Carnival, October 1 to 6, 1900. Athens: City of Athens and the Carnival Association, 1900.
F294 .A7 A8 1900
Hester, Al, ed. Athens Memories: The WPA Federal Writers’ Project Interviews. Athens: Green Berry Press, 2001.
F294 .A7 A854 2001
History of Athens and Clarke County. Greenville, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 2000.
F294 .A7 R8 2000
Horner, Laura. The Angel Bird. Athens, Ga.
LD7501 .L943 H67 1980z
Hull, Augustus Longstreet. Annals of Athens, Georgia, 1801-1901. Athens: Athens Banner Job Office, 1906.
F294 .A7 H913
Hull, Henry. Sketches from the Early History of Athens, Georgia, 1801-1825. Athens: H.L. Cranford, 1884.
F294 .A7 H914 1884
Hynds, Ernest C. Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1974.
LXK23 .H983 A55
Johnson, Elsa Ann. History [of] Tuckston Methodist Church, Athens, Georgia. Athens: 1960.
BX8481 .A6 T9
MacLean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
HS2230 .K63 M225 1994
McCash, William B. Thomas R.R. Cobb (1823-1862): The Making of a Southern Nationalist. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2004.
F290.C67 M37
Mell, Edward Baker. A Short History of the Athens Baptist Church, Now the First Baptist Church of Athens; Athens, Georgia, 1830-1953. Athens, 1954.
BX6480 .A6 M5
Mell, Edward Baker. Reminiscences of Athens, About 1880 to 1900. Athens, 1964.
F294 .A7 M5
Morris, Sylvanus. Strolls about Athens during the Early Seventies. Athens, 1912.
F294 .A7 M6 1969
Poss, Faye Stone. Clarke Co. (Athens), GA, Newspaper Abstracts. v 1-2. Snellville, 1998.
F292.C5 P6
The Ready Hand Book to Athens, Georgia and Vicinity. Athens: D.W. McGregor, 1903.
F294 .A7 R287
Reap, James K. Athens, A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach: Donning Co., 1985.
F294 .A7 R4
Riis, Thomas L. Black Vaudeville, the TOBA, and the Morton Theatre: Recovering the History, 1910-1930. 1987.
PN1968 .U5 R540 1987
Sell, E. S. History of the State Normal School, Athens, Georgia. Athens, 1923.
LXK23 .S467h
Spalding, Phinizy. Higher Education for Women in the South: A History of Lucy Cobb Institute, 1858-1994: Including "History of Lucy Cobb Institute," by Phyllis Jenkins Barrow. Athens: Georgia Southern, 1994.
LD7251 .A84 H4 1994
Strahan, Charles Morton. Clarke County, Ga. and the City of Athens. Athens: C.P. Byrd, 1893.
F292 .C4 S8
Thomas, Frances Taliaferro. A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
F292 .C5 T46 1992
UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
These are only a few of the relevant UGA theses and dissertations concerning the history of Athens. Additional works can be found in GIL or with the help of Georgia Room staff. All UGA theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and, like all works, cannot be checked out.
Gamble, Robert S. Athens: The Study of a Georgia Town during Reconstruction, 1865-1872. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1967.
LXC15 1967 .G2
Gelfand, H. Michael. "Tomorrow We Fly": A History of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School on the Campus of the University of Georgia. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC15 1994 .G316
Ray, David Winter. A History of Streetcar Service in Athens, Georgia, and Some Possibilities for its Reintroduction. MHP thesis, University of Georgia, 2005.
LXC15 2005 Ray, D.
Schinkel, Peter Evans. The Negro in Athens and Clarke County, 1872-1900. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1971.
LXC15 1971 .S3
SELECTED GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY ARTICLES
Coulter, E. Merton. "The Athens Dispensary." Georgia Historical Quarterly 50 (1966): 14-36.
Coulter, E. Merton. "The Birth of a University, a Town, and a County." Georgia Historical Quarterly 46 (1962): 113-150.
Coulter, E. Merton. "The Politics of Dividing a Georgia County: Oconee from Clarke." Georgia Historical Quarterly 57 (1973): 475-492.
Coulter, E. Merton. "Slavery and Freedom in Athens, Georgia, 1860-1866." Georgia Historical Quarterly 49 (1965): 264-293.
Coulter, E. Merton. "William Howard Taft's Visit to Athens, Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 52 (1968): 388-397.
Gelfand, H. Michael. "Chronicling an African-American Life in Athens: James W. Davis and His Georgia Writers' Project Interview, 1939." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 713-734.
McGuire, Peter S. "Athens and the Railroads: The Georgia and the Northeastern, Part 1." Georgia Historical Quarterly 13 (1934): 1-26.
McGuire, Peter S. "Athens and the Railroads: The Northeastern Extension; the Macon and Northern; and the Georgia, Carolina, and Northern, Part 2." Georgia Historical Quarterly 13 (1934): 118-134.
Stewart, Bruce E. "The Urban-Rural Dynamic of the Southern Farmers' Alliance: Relations between Athens Merchants and Clarke County Farmers, 1888-1891." Georgia Historical Quarterly 89 (2005): 157-184.
Talmadge, John E. "Ben: Perley Poore's Stay in Athens." Georgia Historical Quarterly 41 (1957): 247-254.
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Created by Kathryn Tucker.