November 14, 2024 – Hyundai Motors America presented the Georgia Historical Society with a trustee sponsorship for its upcoming gala on Thursday, November 14th. Check out the photos here!
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Super Museum Sunday!
We made a guide to help you streamline your interests and make a cohesive plan for the day
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Celebrate women all month with the League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia
As president Cuffy Sullivan explains, the LWVCGA jumped on opportunities to collaborate with other organizations and their existing programming, creating a strong support system
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Super Museum Sunday!
We’ve categorized the sites by interest to help you plan your day.
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‘A more inclusive and nuanced history’
Eight of Savannah’s historically significant organizations offer a day of free admission this Sunday, August 20.
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Savannah history in a glass case
IF YOU were to tell your story with objects, which ones would you choose? Which artifacts best represent you and your life? That’s the question Luciana Spracher set out to […]
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Savannah’s Carnegie Library recognized as one of Georgia’s 10 Most Beautiful
HELEN WASHINGTON likes to say she has a “living room with a view.” The sprightly senior has lived on Henry Street for over 60 years, most of them in the […]
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Georgia Historical Society to commemorate World War II rescue boat station in Thunderbolt with historical marker
The Georgia Historical Society will dedicate a new historical marker this Friday, March 24, to the World War II Rescue Boat Station on the bluff of the Wilmington River in […]
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Name shaming the Talmadge Bridge
Efforts over the years to change the name of our bridge—to Oglethorpe, to Tomochichi, to anything else—have always fizzled.
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Georgia Day: Faces of history
IT’S A well-known fact that history is owned by the victors.And by victors, what we mean is the rich white guys. Oh, don’t get your jockstrap in a beta male bunge—this is not an attack, just an observation.
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5 Questions: Why De Soto Matters to the Georgia History Festival
TWO CENTURIES before Savannah was founded, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led the first European expedition into the North American interior. From the Florida Gulf Coast through Georgia, through […]
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SCAD’s Paula Wallace selected as new GA History Trustee
The Georgia Historical Society announced today that Paula S. Wallace and Alana Smith Shepherd will be the latest inductees to the Georgia Trustees at the annual Trustees Gala in February […]