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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
  • 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...
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    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
  • 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...
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    • 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
  • Cathey Steinberg Papers in the Women’s Collection now open for research

     The political papers of Georgia state legislator Cathey Steinberg are now available for research in the Women’s Collection, part of GSU Library’s Special Collections and...
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    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
    • History
  • Sheroes of the Year 2010: Celebrating the Dauntless and the Dangerous!

    Presented annually, the Shero of the Year Award recognizes an individual or individuals whose support has made a significant impact on the Women’s Collection. The 2010...
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    • For Faculty
    • General
    • History
    • Political Science
    • Sociology
  • New Collections Open for Research in the Southern Labor Archives

    The following collections are now open for research in the Southern Labor Archives, part of GSU Library’s Special Collections and Archives department: The James R....
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    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
    • History