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Mt. Vesuvius erupting doing catastrophic damage to Pompeii, the Greek city below

History June 12, 2024

Records of Pompeii’s survivors have been found – and archaeologists are starting to understand how they rebuilt their lives

by Steven L. Tuck, Miami University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles…

History January 31, 2024

For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for

by Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In October 2023, nearly seven years after the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist…

a front page of an 1861 edition of the Marietta Advocate

History January 17, 2024

Civil War era Cobb County court clerk absconds with the cash

If we consider the backlog in the Cobb County clerk’s office now scandalous, imagine reader reaction to this brief story from the February 1, 1861, issue of the Marietta Advocate:…

Photo from 1914 newspaper with group of Atlanta boosters meeting in Chattanooga about Dixie Highway project

History December 25, 2023

More on the history of the automobile in Cobb County: The building of the Dixie Highway

[This is an expansion of an article we published in August, with added materials from the Georgia Historic Newspapers database and website housed at the University of Georgia] Each year…

Cobb County, History, Smyrna December 24, 2023

Shoupade Park: a small park built around Civil War fortifications

This is an update of an article originally published in the Courier in April of 2016. Since then, another park was developed that also includes Shoupades: Discovery Park on the…

Drawing of a poinsettia, with radial red petals and radial green leaves

History December 20, 2023

Joel Roberts Poinsett: Namesake of the poinsettia, enslaver, secret agent and perpetrator of the ‘Trail of Tears’

by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] If people know the name Joel Roberts Poinsett today, it is likely because of…

An automobile ad from the first decade of the 20th century

History December 10, 2023

1899: A high school student comments on Cobb County’s roads

by Larry Felton Johnson In the March 2, 1899 issue of the Marietta Journal (one of the previous names of the Marietta Daily Journal) a letter appeared from a high…

Entrance to Hooper-McWilliams cemetery, probably erected by boy scouts in the late 1990s

History November 26, 2023

Cobb County’s Hooper family and a Civil War mystery

This is an expanded republication of an article originally published by the Courier on January 1, 2017. There is a second part to this article, in which an authority on…

History November 23, 2023

Grave robbery in Cobb County: 1879

Throughout the early years of medical education schools in need of cadavers would often resort to the illegal service of grave robbers, also called “body snatchers.” The most well-known case…

History November 23, 2023

Burying the lede: We all had a fantastic time, except one of us was killed

This is a revised and expanded version of a story we originally ran in the earliest days of the Courier, in May of 2016, when our readership was less than…

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History December 22, 2024

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