The Consortium on Georgia History will sponsor a one-day conference on Saturday, February 10, 2001, at Armstrong Atlantic State University, from 9 a.m to 2 p.m. The Consortium invites all those interested in the study of Georgia's history to attend the meeting and help us chart the future course of the organization.

Preliminary Program

Alice Taylor-Colbert (Shorter College) on the lives of Cherokee leaders Major and Susanna Ridge

Catherine O. Badura (Valdosta State University) on the Georgia novelist Corra White Harris

Tom Scott (Kennesaw State University) on the rebirth of the Republican Party in Georgia in the 1960's

Mary Ella Engel (Graduate Student, University of Georgia) on the 1879 lynching of Mormon Elder Joseph Standing in north Georgia

Mary Ellen Wilson (Middle Georgia) on the effects of deforestation in the Altamaha River Basin

Lee Ann Caldwell (Augusta State University) on the journal of Elizabeth Johnson Harris and race relations in the Hill section of Augusta.

Keynote address: William F. Holmes (University of Georgia and former Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Historical Association) on Georgia's timber industry.

Hotel reservations are available at Springhill Suites, located near the Armstrong Atlantic campus. The rate is $65 plus tax. Mention that you are with the Georgia Consortium Conference to get the special rate. Springhill Suites reservations may be made at (912) 920-3784 and (912) 961-7152.

The Consortium on Georgia History is a joint effort of several centers for Georgia studies amd departments of history around the state, including Augusta State's Center for the Study of Georgia History, Kennesaw State's Center for Regional History & Culture, and history departments/faculty at the University of Georgia, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Armstrong Atlantic, and Georgia Perimeter. The Consortium invites participation by all institutions and individuals throughout the state with an interest in promoting the study of Georgia history.