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  • What is Labor Day REALLY about?

    What is the Labor Day holiday really about?  Here are various resources that will fill you in on Labor Day’s history as well as labor...
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    • Books
    • Databases
    • Economics
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • KKK infiltrator, Civil Rights activist Kennedy dies at 94.

    Stetson Kennedy, noted Civil Rights activist perhaps best known for infiltrating and exposing the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia in the 1940s, passed away Saturday,...
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    • African American Studies
    • General
    • History
    • Political Science
    • Special Collections & Archives
  • John E. Aderhold dies

    John E. Aderhold–businessman, civic leader, and Georgia State University benefactor–died Wednesday, August 10. The university’s Aderhold Learning Center was funded by the family and is...
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  • WSB Radio Sound Recording Collection

    The Special Collections and Archives is currently processing a collection of over ten thousand 10” sound recordings, mostly 78 rpm discs from the WSB Radio...
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    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
    • Music
  • Photo(s) of the Week: Unidentified Georgia City

    Can you confirm where these photographs were taken?  This is a United States Highway motorcade sponsored by the Atlanta Journal newspaper.  Click on an image...
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    • General
    • History
  • PATCO Strike Files Reveal Solidarity

    The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) Records Digitization Project is underway at Georgia State University Library.  Series V: Strike Files has been added to...
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    • General
    • History
  • Guest Post: Terry Kraus from the Federal Aviation Administration

    Theresa Kraus, historian for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), visited Georgia State University Library’s Special Collections and Archives to use the Professional Air Traffic Controllers...
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    • Special Collections & Archives
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photograph Collection: Update

    Georgia State University transferred the five million images in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs Collections to a Special Collections and Archives service facility in April 2010....
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  • Portals to the Past: Creative Web Uses of Historic GSU Photos

    Several Web sites are making innovative use of historic Atlanta photographs from Georgia State University Library Collections.  The Atlanta Time Machine shows historic photographs juxtaposed...
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    • Communication
    • Computer Science
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
  • Jim Ashlock Oral History now open for research

    James R. “Jim” Ashlock (standing, second from right) worked for Eastern Air Lines from 1966 to 1991. In 1968, Ashlock was transferred to Miami, Eastern’s...
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    • Business
    • Communication
    • Economics
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