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Local history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Foxfire magazine, 1969-1993

 Series — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS 010.016
Overview

Early issues of Foxfire magazine.

Dates: 1969-1993

Al Hester papers

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-069
Overview Research files of Al Hester, a professor of journalism at the University of Georgia who later in his life wrote extensively on Athens history. The files pertain to the planning and writing of three books: Enduring Legacy: Clarke County Georgia's Ex-Slave Legislators Madison Davis and Alfred Richardson; Putting On Blue: Confederates from the Athens, Georgia, Area Who Became Galvanized Yankees; and Athens Memories: The W.P.A. Federal Writers’ Project Interviews; and related historical topics....
Dates: 1980-2017; Majority of material found within 1998-2017

Michael Gagnon papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-088
Overview

Research files for Gagnon’s articles about Georgia railroads and for his book, Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830–1870, and documentation of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company microfilming project.

Dates: 1990