21 March 2014
Even if you don’t do research in Georgia, you’ll find the University of Georgia Library’s "Digital Library of Georgia," a Galileo initiative (dlg.galileo.usg.edu) to be a treasure trove. Much of the site’s material covers people and places outside the state. As a sampling of its thousands of online collections:
First-person Narratives of the American South
“First-Person Narratives of the American South” is a collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. The majority of materials in this collection are written by those Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
Searchable issues of three important historic Georgia newspapers, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Dublin Post, and the Colored Tribune from the microfilm holdings of the Georgia Newspaper Project.
Georgia Historical Society Image Catalog
Select digitized images of photographs, prints, artifacts, portraits, and manuscripts from the collections of the Georgia Historical Society.
Significant state documents from Georgia's history dating from 1732 to 1983 from the collections of the Georgia Archives
Manuscripts and Printed Material
Printed materials and manuscripts focusing on Georgia and the South.
Scanned books from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library covering Georgia history, literature, education, figures, and Native American and African American life in the state
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
Over 2,000 documents and images on the history of Native Americans in the Southeastern U.S., letters, legal proceedings, military orders, and more from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Museum of the Cherokee, Tennessee State Library & Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, Hoskins Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Southern Israelite: Georgia Historic Newspapers
Searchable issues of the Southern Israelite from 1929 to 1958 and from 1984 to 1986.