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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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    • Communication
    • English
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • History
  • New Resource: Popular Culture Literature Collection

    Did you know that the Special Collections and Archives maintain a collection of popular culture literature published over the last 100 years? The Popular Culture...
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    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • Primary Resources
    • Resources
  • 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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    • Communication
    • Digital Collections
    • Education
    • English
    • For Faculty
  • 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
    • Books
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
  • New Resource: Don Kennedy papers

    A new collection related to Atlanta broadcaster, Don Kennedy, is now available in the Special Collections and Archives. The Don Kennedy papers document Kennedy’s wide-ranging...
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    • Digital Collections
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
  • 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
  • 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
    • For Students
  • 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
  • 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
    • Books
    • Databases
    • Digital Collections
    • For Faculty
  • Umbra Search, University of Minnesota’s online African-American history portal, announces public launch

    Georgia State University Library has partnered with Umbra Search African American History at the University of Minnesota — a program that makes African American culture...
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    • African American Studies
    • Digital Collections
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students