by Richard Gunderman, Indiana University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] With over 40 armed conflicts now taking place around the world, the costs of warfare…
[This is one of a group of evergreen articles that we often update and republish. It was originally published in December of last year] We’ve been heavily using Georgia Historic…
[We occasionally update and republish our evergreen history articles. This article first appeared in the Courier in November 23, 2023 In the original version of the article we stated we…
Regular readers of the Cobb County Courier know that we often heavily use the Georgia Historic Newspapers website as a source for our history articles. Examples of our articles that…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…