The University Of Georgia

Author : Thomas G. Dyer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820323985

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The University of Georgia by Thomas G. Dyer Pdf

Thomas G. Dyer’s definitive history of the University of Georgia celebrates the bicentennial of the school’s founding with a richly varied account of people and events. More than an institutional history, The University of Georgia is a contribution to the understanding of the course and development of higher education in the South. The Georgia legislature in January 1785 approved a charter establishing “a public seat of learning in this state.” For the next sixteen years the university’s trustees struggled to convert its endowment--forty thousand acres of land in the backwoods--into enough money to support a school. By 1801 the university had a president, a campus on the edge of Indian country, and a few students. Over the next two centuries the small liberal arts college that educated the sons of lawyers and planters grew into a major research university whose influence extends far beyond the boundaries of the state. The course of that growth has not always been smooth. This volume includes careful analyses of turning points in the university’s history: the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of land-grant colleges, the coming of intercollegiate athletics, the admission of women to undergraduate programs, the enrollment of thousands of World War II veterans, and desegregation. All are considered in the context of what was occurring elsewhere in the South and in the nation.

Author : Calvin Trillin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820368573

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An Education in Georgia by Calvin Trillin Pdf

Author : Larry B. Dendy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820342481

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Through the Arch by Larry B. Dendy Pdf

Through the Arch captures UGA's colorful past, dynamic present, and promising future in a novel way: by surveying its buildings, structures, and spaces. These physical features are the university's most visible--and some of its most valuable--resources. Yet they are largely overlooked, or treated only passingly, in histories and standard publications about UGA. Through text and photographs, this book places buildings and spaces in the context of UGA's development over more than 225 years. After opening with a brief historical overview of the university, the book profiles over 140 buildings, landmarks, and spaces, their history, appearance, and past and current usage, as well as their namesake, beginning with the oldest structures on North Campus and progressing to the newest facilities on South and East Campus and the emerging Northwest Quadrant. Many profiles are supplemented with sidebars relating traditions, lore, facts, or alumni recollections associated with buildings and spaces. More than just landmarks or static elements of infrastructure, buildings and spaces embody the university's values, cultural heritage, and educational purpose. These facilities--many more than a century old--are where students learn, explore, and grow and where faculty teach, research, and create. They harbor the university's history and traditions, protect its treasures, and hold memories for alumni. The repository for books, documents, artifacts, and tools that contain and convey much of the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of human existence, these structures are the legacy of generations. And they are tangible symbols of UGA's commitment to improve our world through education. Guide includes 113 color photos throughout 19 black-and-white historical photos Over 140 profiles of buildings, landmarks, and spaces Supplemental sidebars with traditions, lore, facts, and alumni anecdotes 6 maps

Author : F. N. Boney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0820310816

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A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia by F. N. Boney Pdf

Factual and entertaining, compact and easy to follow, A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia takes the reader on a leisurely tour of the campus, its history and heritage. When the Georgia legislature chartered the nation's first state university in 1785, the town of Athens was a wilderness. The first university classes, in 1801, were held in a log cabin, and no permanent structure was built until Franklin College--now Old College--was completed in 1806. Since that time, the university has expanded vigorously. The buildings of the University of Georgia--spread over several miles and encompassing many architectural styles--range from the federal style of Demosthenian Hall and the classical design of Brooks Hall to the glass dome and marble of Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall. F.N. Boney's A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia guides the reader through the entire campus, offering easy-to-follow maps, photographs, and histories of most structures, as well as information about former students, college life, and the city of Athens.

Author : F. N. Boney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0820321982

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A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia by F. N. Boney Pdf

First published during the school’s bicentennial, A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia has now been revised and expanded to include a new, updated section and 43 new photographs that portray the university’s most recent growth and development. More than 300 illustrations and photographs accompany the story of pivotal events and the details of student life from the first classes held on the Georgia frontier in 1801 through the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the admission of women in 1918, and the construction of a new east campus. This new edition features an in-depth chronicle of the University of Georgia’s rapid growth during the past decade and describes the effects of the expansion of the student body and faculty, the burgeoning athletic program and its new emphasis on women’s sports, and the administrations of Charles Knapp and Michael Adams. From landmark changes to little-known events and curious facts, A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia presents a complete portrait of the school that blends educational innovation and cultural diversity with long-standing traditions.

Author : Numan V. Bartley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820311784

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The Creation of Modern Georgia by Numan V. Bartley Pdf

Examines the persistence and ultimate collapse of Georgia's plantation-oriented colonial society and the emergence of a modern state with greater urbanization, industrialization, and diversification

Author : Vince Dooley
Publisher : Looking Glass Books, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : 1929619456

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History and Reminiscences of the University of Georgia by Vince Dooley Pdf

Vince Dooley and Steve Penley come together in their third collaboration (after Dooley's Playbook and Vince Dooley's Garden), this time telling the story of the University of Georgia, the place they both love most. Vince Dooley is uniquely positioned to tell the history of the University of Georgia. As head football coach and athletics director, Dooley served the university under five presidents, and he turns often to personal observations and anecdotes to inform readers. A masterful storyteller and a lifelong learner with a master's degree in history, Dooley weaves a compelling narrative of more than two centuries of history at the university. Renowned American artist Steve Penley may be best known for his paintings of historical icons, but his love for the University of Georgia pours out of every visual interpretation. With strong brush strokes and bold colors, Penley presents the university and its history as only he can.

Author : Emily Pérez,Nancy Reddy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820368672

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The Long Devotion by Emily Pérez,Nancy Reddy Pdf

Author : Willard Range
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820334523

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The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 by Willard Range Pdf

Published in 1951, this study looks at the social, economic, political, and historical aspects of the development of higher education for African Americans in Georgia.

Author : Robert A. Pratt
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820327808

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We Shall Not Be Moved by Robert A. Pratt Pdf

Tells the story of a group of African-American lawyers and plaintiffs and their white allies who were determined to break down racial barriers at the University of Georgia in the 1950s. Reprint.

Author : Piggy Toes Press
Publisher : Piggy Toes Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-20
Category : Football
ISBN : 1615240896

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I Want to Go! the University of Georgia by Piggy Toes Press Pdf

Hear the excitement and feel the emotion of the Georgia football experience in this touch, listen and look adventure book.

Author : Jared A. Loggins,Andrew J. Douglas
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820360164

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Prophet of Discontent by Jared A. Loggins,Andrew J. Douglas Pdf

This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Many of today’s insurgent Black movements call for an end to racial capitalism. They take aim at policing and mass incarceration, the racial partitioning of workplaces and residential communities, the expropriation and underdevelopment of Black populations at home and abroad. Scholars and activists increasingly regard these practices as essential technologies of capital accumulation, evidence that capitalist societies past and present enshrine racial inequality as a matter of course. In Prophet of Discontent, Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins invoke contemporary discourse on racial capitalism in a powerful reassessment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s thinking and legacy. Like today’s organizers, King was more than a dreamer. He knew that his call for a “radical revolution of values” was complicated by the production and circulation of value under capitalism. He knew that the movement to build the beloved community required sophisticated analyses of capitalist imperialism, state violence, and racial formations, as well as unflinching solidarity with the struggles of the Black working class. Shining new light on King’s largely implicit economic and political theories, and expanding appreciation of the Black radical tradition to which he belonged, Douglas and Loggins reconstruct, develop, and carry forward King’s strikingly prescient critique of capitalist society.

Author : Rich Whitt
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781603060967

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Behind the Hedges by Rich Whitt Pdf

In Behind the Hedges, journalist Rich Whitt focused his investigative lens on recent events at the University of Georgia, and in so doing examined the bigger story of "a sea change in how America supports its institutions of higher education." Through interviews with many key figures in a struggle for power at UGA over the last decade, Rich examines the controversial tenure of Michael Adams as UGA president, and how this controversy led to the unprecedented split between the Board of Regents and the UGA Foundation, with implications for the landscape of higher education funding nationwide.

Author : Marisela Martinez-Cola
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820368719

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The Bricks Before Brown by Marisela Martinez-Cola Pdf

Author : Brad M. Epstein
Publisher : 101 Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : 1932530177

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University of Illinois 101 by Brad M. Epstein Pdf

Simple text and illustrations explain university life.