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Grainy photo of alleged forger Horace C. Gray from a 1910 newspaper

Marietta May 27, 2024

Horace C. Gray: Criminal mastermind or harmless blowhard?

Yesterday we ran a Marietta history article based on a 1910 crime feature from the Atlanta Georgian. The Georgian was a newspaper published from 1906 to 1939. For most of…

Marietta May 26, 2024

1910 in Marietta: a con artist jailed, then released, in bizarre forgery case

Flim flam artists have fascinated the public, at least since their exploits were featured, in sometimes exaggerated ways, by pulp fiction writers and tabloid journalists in the late 19th and…

KSU President Kathy Schwaig and Georgia Travis at the event honoring the late Rev. Harris Travis.

Education May 3, 2024

Kennesaw State honors former administrator Harris Travis with new exhibit

Photo above: President Kathy Schwaig and Georgia Travis at the event honoring the late Rev. Harris Travis. [This article by Amanda Cook, with photos by Judith Pishnery, first appeared on…

Mableton March 31, 2024

More Cobb History: Bandits captured outside Mableton in 1914 car chase

In 1914 a newspaper called the Atlanta Georgian was owned by William Randolph Hearst. Like most Hearst newspapers, the Georgian placed a high emphasis on sensationalism. Crime and scandal were…

Justice March 28, 2024

Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’

by Marlee Bunch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie…

International March 6, 2024

The Russia-Ukraine War has caused a staggering amount of cultural destruction – both seen and unseen

by Ian Kuijt, University of Notre Dame; Pavlo Shydlovskyi, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and William Donaruma, University of Notre Dame, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished…

National February 13, 2024

A brief history of Dearborn, Michigan – the first Arab-American majority city in the US

by Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn and Amny Shuraydi, University of Michigan-Dearborn, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Dearborn, Michigan, is a center of Arab American…

Race and Racism October 10, 2023

Today’s white working-class young men who turn to racist violence are part of a long, sad American history

by Colin Kohlhaas, Binghamton University, State University of New York, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In recent years, the United States has seen a surge…

a contour drawing of raised fists and picket signs

Labor August 25, 2023

Waves of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low

by Judith Stepan-Norris, University of California, Irvine and Jasmine Kerrissey, UMass Amherst, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] More than 323,000 workers – including nurses, actors,…

Marietta History Center taken from other side of railroad tracks

Marietta June 18, 2023

Marietta History Center to host lecture by author Neely Young

On Thursday, June 22, a 6 p.m., the Marietta History Center will host an evening lecture featuring newspaper icon, journalist, historian and former CEO of Morris Newspaper Corporation, Southern Publishing…

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