University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
Party Out of Bounds
The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s...
Breaking Ground
My Life in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
While Louis W. Sullivan was a student at Morehouse College, Morehouse president Benjamin Mays said something to the student body that stuck with him for the rest of his life. “The tragedy of life is not failing to reach our goals,” Mays said. “It is not having goals to reach.”
In Breaking...
Through the Arch
An Illustrated Guide to the University of Georgia Campus
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
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...
Working for Equality
The Narrative of Harry Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life’s work.” With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft’s Georgia facility, begins his account of a thirty-six-year career that...
by Barbara McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Succinct text from photographer Barbara McKenzie and a foreword by Robert Coles provide context for this moving collection of photographs of the middle Georgia Flannery O’Connor depicted in her fiction. Whether capturing highway signs proclaiming Christ or a restaurant five hundred yards up the...
Shout Because You're Free
The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history,...
Architecture of Middle Georgia
The Oconee Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The middle Georgia area—including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties—is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping survey remains one of the best books on the topic, covering primitive, Gothic, Greek...
Sabbath Creek
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In his second novel, Judson Mitcham, with plain but elegant language, creates an emotional impact rivaled only by his critically acclaimed debut novel, The Sweet Everlasting (Georgia). Sabbath Creek is the story of Lewis Pope, a fourteen-year-old boy thrust into an adult world of heartache and brokenness....
by Lillian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against...
Louisiana Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state...
Folk Visions and Voices
Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.
What Persists
Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and...
Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery
William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824–1900; 1826–1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his “master’s” devoted...
Murder at Broad River Bridge
The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Longtime Atlanta Constitution reporter Bill Shipp...