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HIST 3072 (special collections): Topic Leads

Topic Options

Below is a list of topics that should have some relevant primary sources available at UGA special collections. If you have difficulty locating these sources, make an appointment with Jill Severn for some additional assistance.   

Topics

  1. Pure Food and Drug Act/adulterated food  
  2. Agriculture: (Crop lien/ Tenant farming/Sharecropping)
  3. Agriculture (scientific farming, Cooperative Extension, Ag Train, fertilizer innovations)  
  4. Agriculture: (politics, Farmer’s Alliance, populism, William Jennings Bryan, Free Silve/Gold standard) 
  5. Agriculture (declining cotton yields and prices—tariffs, global competition for markets, pest challenges, boll weevil)
  6. Industrialization (mills, factories, unions, strikes, child labor)   
  7. Great Migration (African American’s leaving the South)
  8. Transportation (Railroads, road construction, convict labor, Good Roads Program)
  9. Prohibition and temperance 
  10. Tariffs and trade  
  11. Convict labor 
  12. Football safety/dangers 

Topics

  1. African American perspectives on race relations (W.E.B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington camps)
  2. “Birth of a Nation” film
  3. Racial violence lynching/antilynching
  4. Ku Klux Klan rise 
  5. Influenza epidemic of 1918-19 
  6. U.S. involvement in WWI  
  7. Women’s suffrage 
  8. Access to GA higher ed for women (UGA)
  9. Great Depression/New Deal period  
  10. New Deal implementation in Georgia 
  11. Fort Benning and the rise of Georgia as a military base center 
  12. Taft-Hartley Act
  13. Communism