August is National Peach Month! You can learn more about peaches, their history in Georgia, and their role in our state’s economy by reading this New Georgia Encyclopedia article about peaches. The DLG also has plenty of resources documenting peach farming, production, and consumption. Enjoy these resources, and enjoy a fresh peach while they’re still in season! […]
National Radio Day is Thursday, August 20th. Celebrate the radio and its role in mass communication by tuning into your favorite radio station today! While you’re at it, we hope that you enjoy a few photographs, available in the DLG, that show radio broadcasters working and radio listeners engaged with radio programming. […]
We are happy to announce a new partnership with the Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center, and to present a new collection of oral history interviews about Appalachian folk traditions and music, Foxfire Oral Histories, 2014. The oral history interviews in this collection were conducted for Foxfire’s fiftieth anniversary book, which will be made available in […]
The Digital Library of Georgia remembers the life of activist, politician, writer, and educator Julian Bond who passed away Sunday at the age of 75. As a student at Morehouse College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bond co-organized the the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, a civil rights group that successfully desegregated Atlanta’s public facilities. In 1960, […]
Have you explored Georgia Government Publications? The Georgia Government Publications database (GGP) was developed in 1996 as GALILEO’s first digital conversion initiative and redesigned in 2009. It serves as a comprehensive digital repository of more than 60,000 born-digital publications and scanned print documents produced by Georgia state agencies published from 1994 to the present. Georgia […]
Happy National Clown Week! National Clown Week was founded by President Richard Nixon on August 2, 1971. It is celebrated during the first week of August. This week, the DLG is happy to share several resources of clowns making people happy. From the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection’s WSB-TV collection, a […]