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  • GSU Institutional History Highlights Founders & “Firsts”

    Do you know who our first female graduate and faculty member was?  Can you name one of the young people who tried to integrate our...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Books
    • Education
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
  • Fully Operational: Presenting the New Library Website

    The Georgia State University Library’s website has a lot of impressive new services and applications. Designed to be user-oriented, the site is based on usability...
    Topics
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • Instruction
    • New Resources
  • Faculty and Graduate Students’ Sociological Imaginations at Work

    C. Wright Mills wrote of the “sociological imagination” that “its essence is the combination of ideas that no one expected were combinable…there is a playfulness...
    Topics
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • Graduate Student Publications and Research
    • Sociology
  • The Curious, the Arcane: Discoveries in Special Collections

    Every year the Library’s Special Collections and Archives Department adds new and exciting images to the digital archives available to researchers. As photograph collections are...
    Topics
    • Art & Design
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • New Resources
  • Photo of the Week: Big Shanty (Kennesaw), GA

    The Western and Atlantic Railroad track from Terminus (Atlanta) to Cartersville, Georgia was laid about 1846 and passed an area of high ground populated with worker’s shacks.  This...
    Topics
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
  • Learning Opportunity for Business, Economics, Public Policy and Political Science Researchers

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is one of the world’s largest publishers in the fields of economics and public policy – and...
    Topics
    • Business
    • Databases
    • Economics
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • Photo of the Week: Summerhill Marble Players

    Relatively few photographs exist of Atlanta’s African-American community in the mid 20th century.  Fewer still depict children’s games, slum conditions, vernacular architecture, clothing worn by...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Books
    • Criminal Justice
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
  • Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching Photo Discovery

    A cache of 32 photographs taken shortly after the 1946 Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching in Walton County, Georgia has been recently discovered by Tim Crimmins,...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Criminal Justice
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • Georgia’s Red-Headed Stepchild Comes of Age

    Georgia State University: you’ve come a long way, baby! From a commuter night school in downtown Atlanta specializing in adult education for local businessmen to...
    Topics
    • Books
    • Education
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • Digitization of Labor Photographs Underway!

    The Southern Labor Archives, part of the Special Collections and Archives department of the University Library, has a collection of over 3,000 photographs as a...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Business
    • Communication
    • Economics
    • For Faculty