This is an expanded and updated version of an article we published in May of 2016, and was the second installment in a series about Hollywood Cemetery, a large cemetery…
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…
This is a revised and expanded version of a story originally run in the Courier in May of 2016. At that time the Cobb County Courier was called River Edges,…
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…
This article is an expanded version of one of the earliest articles published on the Cobb County Courier, in 2015. Cobb County, formed in 1832 after the Cherokee were expelled…
[Editor’s note: This is a version of an article we published in 2017, when the traffic to our site was around 10,000 visitors per month. We are now more than…
[ South Cobb Drive has been a major commercial and commuter highway in Cobb County since the mid-1940s. In fact, until the 1940s, South Cobb Drive, or SR 280 did…
by Howard Manly, The Conversation, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As the father of Black history, Carter G. Woodson had a simple goal – to…
by Jerald Podair, Lawrence University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader…
The Marietta History Center will temporarily host a traveling exhibit from Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education entitled “Georgia Journeys: Legacies of World War II.” The exhibit…