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  • The Social Network – Read all about it

    The controversial movie The Social Network hits theatres this weekend.  The movie tells a tale of  Facebook Inc.’s 2004 inception, and has already been hailed as...
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  • Educating the Urban New South…with a Wry Twist

    Like the red-headed stepchild whose history it tells, Dr. Merl E. Reed’s Educating the Urban New South:  Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University,...
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  • Photo of the Week: Reality from “Channeled” Negatives

    For his senior art portfolio, artist Pascal Raymond recycles deteriorated negatives of car wrecks to create a diptych evoking a spiritual and economic reality. The...
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  • Photo of the Week: Burns Cottage, Atlanta, GA

    The Robert Burns Cottage, located three miles southeast of Atlanta, Georgia, is a replica of the Scottish poet’s birthplace in Alloway, Ayrsshire, Scotland.  The Atlanta...
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  • Reconstructing a Musical Score

    A recent researcher utilized sheet music from the Frances Wallace Papers for a project involving the reconstruction of the musical score to a 1919 silent...
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    • Music
    • Special Collections & Archives
  • Rahna Carusi appointed first endowed graduate assistant for Women’s Collection

    Rahna Carusi has been named the first endowed graduate assistant for Georgia State University Library’s Women’s Collection, a position generously supported by Our Mothers’ Fund (established by Margaret...
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  • The records of the UFCW, Local 525, now open for research

    The records of the United Food and Commercial Workers , Local 525 (Asheville, N.C.), 1944-1986 (bulk 1961-1983), contain correspondence, organizing materials, legal files, publications, meeting...
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  • St. Elmo Murray, Byronic Hero?

    Born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Wynnton (now the MidTown area in Columbus), Georgia, Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson (1835-1909) wrote nine highly...
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  • Evolution of Classroom Technology Timeline

    Here is a fascinating look at the evolution of classroom technology, published in the 9/19/10 issue of New York Times Magazine (Courtesy of ResourceShelf). Here...
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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...
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    • African American Studies
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