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Powder Springs August 17, 2025

Powder Springs History: a 1907 train wreck

[This is an evergreen article that we periodically update and republish, first published in the Courier in May of 2024] Trains played a very important part in Cobb County’s history,…

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Sports August 8, 2025

Truist Park Is The Perfect Spot For A Woman To Make History As An MLB Umpire

By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College Few sports stories are cracking the national headlines like the Saturday debut of Jen Pawol to be an umpire for…

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Weekend Quiz August 3, 2025

How much do you know about the early history of Cobb County?

How much do you know about the early history of Cobb County? We run daily quizzes in the Cobb County Courier newsletter, and recently decided to move the Saturday and…

Marietta History Center taken from other side of railroad tracks

Marietta July 27, 2025

Marietta History Center Rummage and Book Sale returns

The Marietta History Center posted the following announcement on the City of Marietta website (we’ve copied the announcement verbatim): The Marietta History Center is excited to announce the return of…

Business & Economy June 13, 2025

Energy Star, on the Trump administration’s target list, has a long history of helping consumers’ wallets and the planet

by Magali A. Delmas, University of California, Los Angeles, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Since the early 1990s, the small blue Energy Star label has…

Government & Politics June 12, 2025

Politics based on grievance has a long and violent history in America

by Peter C. Mancall, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Recently, President Donald Trump declared that he is…

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Economy April 16, 2025

Beggar thy neighbor, harm thyself: Tariffs like Trump’s come with pitfalls, history shows

by Bedassa Tadesse, University of Minnesota Duluth, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Feeling tariff whiplash? You’re not alone. On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump…

History April 7, 2025

With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars

by Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my…

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History March 23, 2025

Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation

by Lightning Jay, Binghamton University, State University of New York, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Can you tell fact from fiction online? In a digital…

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Health Care March 19, 2025

A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net

by Ben Zdencanovic, University of California, Los Angeles, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump…

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