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  • Upcoming Workshop: Teaching with Primary Sources: Popular Culture and Pulp

    Intrigued by our new Popular Culture Literature Collection? Kevin Fleming, GSU’s Popular Music and Culture Archivist, and Jill Anderson, History/African-American Studies/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies...
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    • English
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    • History
  • Upcoming 2017 Dale Somers Memorial Lecture, Department of History

    The History department’s annual Dale Somers Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Deborah Harkness, professor of History at the University of Southern California, at 2...
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    • Books
    • For Faculty
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    • History
  • Special Collections Celebrates International Women’s Day

    In the heart Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world on March 8. In recognition of this special day, we would...
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    • Digital Collections
    • Education
    • English
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  • Making History, Writing History: Thoughts for Black History Month

    We often hear the phrases “living through history,” “witnessing history,” “history in the making.” We are literally always creating what historians call “primary sources,” which...
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    • African American Studies
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  • Georgia State University Documents the Women’s Marches

    On January 21, 2017, the Women’s March on Washington took place in the nation’s capital, and sister marches were held across the nation and worldwide....
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    • Communication
    • Digital Collections
    • English
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • New Publications: The Devil’s Riches: A Modern History of Greed and Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

    Prof. Jared Poley of the History Department has recently published The Devil’s Riches: A Modern History of Greed (2016). A broadly ranging topical history, The Devil’s Riches...
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    • Faculty Publications and Research
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  • Uprising of ’34 Oral History Digitization Project Completed

    In May 2015, GSU Library was awarded a grant of $121,418 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize, transcribe, and make...
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    • Digital Collections
    • Film & Media
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
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  • W. J. “Bill” Usery, Jr., 1923-2016

    W. J. “Bill” Usery, Jr., is best remembered as one of the sharpest and most effective labor mediators in Washington, DC, and beyond, known for...
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    • Digital Collections
    • General
    • History
    • Oral Histories
    • Primary Resources
  • Middle East Studies Center Panel Discussion: Trump and the Middle East

    The GSU Middle East Studies Center will present a panel discussion “Trump and the Middle East” on Tuesday January 24 in the Troy Moore Library,...
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    • Books
    • Global Studies
    • History
    • Political Science
  • New Resources: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 16, 2017)

    Martin Luther King, Jr., Day falls on Monday, January 16, this year. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a federal holiday designated by Congress in...
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    • African American Studies
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    • Databases
    • Digital Collections
    • For Faculty