Southern history

by Randy Gue, Curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections, MARBL

Let me ask you a question: What did you do on your last vacation? Did you journey to Florida and sit on the beach? Did you play a round or two of golf or take in a baseball game while you were there?

by Miriam Posner, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Scholarship Commons

From time to time, I'll be blogging on behalf of the Digital Scholarship Commons about our work to build the Georgia Lynching Project, which documents the history of lynching in Georgia. Read our other installments here!

It's always interesting to discover that you're holding the only known surviving copy of a particular book and I came across one of these the other day. It was a book of Christian morals and theology for children called "Simple rhymes and familiar conversations, for children. By Uncle Charles." It was published in Penfield, Georgia by Benjamin Brantly in 1844. "Uncle Charles" is supposedly a Baptist clergyman called Charles D. Mallary.