Catch up on your reading with the UGA Press Summer Sale and get 40% off all books during the month of June! Today we’re highlighting books on the state of Georgia. Take a look at some of our best Georgia titles below, and use code 08JUNE40 at checkout to get 40% off. You can buy…
In honor of Earth Day the University of Georgia Press interviewed Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly, editors of the forthcoming Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast, due out this July. Paul S. Sutter is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of…
Former Georgia Governor Zell Miller passed away last Friday at the age of 86. Miller was elected Georgia’s seventy-ninth governor in 1990 and served as lieutenant governor before that for sixteen years—the longest anyone has held that post in Georgia. It’s probably fair to say that no other occupant of the governor’s mansion had as much appreciation…
Books about Georgia for holiday gift-giving Get 30% off and free shipping on orders over $25.00! A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia Kaye Lanning Minchew Franklin Delano Roosevelt loved Georgia—and Georgians—so much that he visited the state forty-one times between 1924 and 1945. This rich gathering of photographs and remembrances recalls the…
On April 1, Dr. Edward Hatfield began work as the new Managing Editor for the New Georgia Encyclopedia. Hatfield earned his M.A. in history at the University of Georgia in 2006 and completed his Ph.D. in history at Emory University in 2015. He is currently an editorial board member for Atlanta Studies, the open access digital…
The summer has been good to us. From poetry and foodways to fiction and history, below are some highlights of recent press our books have received. “Jeffrey Schultz’s National Poetry Series-winning collection What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other needs our attention almost as much as it demands our suspension of disbelief. Because…
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