Toombs Oak, the Tree That Owned Itself, and Other Chapters of Georgia History

Title Details

Pages: 272

Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in

Formats

Paperback

Pub Date: 05/01/2010

ISBN: 9-780-8203-3532-2

List Price: $34.95

Toombs Oak, the Tree That Owned Itself, and Other Chapters of Georgia History

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  • Description
These nine essays originally appeared in the Georgia Historical Quarterly and range in subject from a group of Arcadians expelled from Nova Scotia that settled in colonial Georgia to the origins of the University of Georgia. Other essays examine the Woolfolk murder case that attracted national attention; Henry M. Turner, a black legislator during the Reconstruction; and John Howard Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Home."

About the Author/Editor

E. MERTON COULTER came to the University of Georgia as an associate professor in 1919; he was named an emeritus professor of history in 1958 and continued to work on campus until his death in 1981. During his career, he wrote or edited more than thirty books and his contributions to periodicals were extensive. Coulter was coeditor of the ten–volume History of the South and author of two of the volumes in the series; he also served as editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly for fifty years.