{"id":8002,"date":"2021-10-15T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2021-10-05T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:00:10","slug":"the-georgia-open-history-library-launches-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"The Georgia Open History Library launches today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, October 15, the Digital Library of Georgia is thrilled to announce the Georgia Open History Library launch from our partners at the University of Georgia Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collection is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/collection\/ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">now available in our Georgia portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and through other public outlets,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.manifoldapp.org\/projects\/project-collection\/georgia-open-history-library\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UGA Press\u2019s Manifold platform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oer.galileo.usg.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affordable Learning Georgia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dp.la\/news\/dpla-launches-open-bookshelf-a-collection-of-free-ebooks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Public Library of America Exchange and Open Bookshelf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebsco.com\/products\/ebooks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EBSCO ebooks Open Access Monograph Collection<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project MUSE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/about.jstor.org\/librarians\/books\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books at JSTOR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HathiTrust<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Georgia Open History Library is an open-access selection of single-authored scholarly titles and two multivolume series and primary documents going back to the founding of Georgia as a colony up to statehood and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to note that new forewords written by contemporary historians were commissioned by UGA Press for each volume in this collection, adding important current scholarly context to these materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">44 individual volumes focusing on the colony and eventual state of Georgia cover the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=Creek&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Creek Tribe and the Muscogee people in Georgia<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22colonial+charter%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia\u2019s colonial charter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22colonial+period%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Georgia colonial period from 1600-1775<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22James+Oglethorpe%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia colonial settlers such as James Edward Oglethorpe<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22American+Revolution%22+governor*&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the American Revolution, Georgia governors, and American generals during that period<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22French+Enlightenment%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the influence of the French Enlightenment in early America<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22Houston%22+or+%22Salzburger%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia colonial families, including the Houstoun\/Houstons and Salzburger emigrants<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22ghost+town%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia ghost towns<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22Butler+King%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia politicians in the 19th century<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/records?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;search_field=both&amp;q=%22landscape+design%22+%22garden%22&amp;collection_record_id=ugapress_gohl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Horticulture in mid-19th-century Georgia<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UGA Press Director Lisa Bayer notes: \u201cAs the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, these online resources about the thirteenth colony will help students, teachers, and all citizens to better understand the diversity and complexity of our early national history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funded by the NEH Humanities Open Book Program, the Georgia Open History Library is a project of the UGA Press in partnership with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UGA Libraries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiahumanities.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia Humanities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Georgia Encyclopedia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiahistory.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia Historical Society<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Library of Georgia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/willson.uga.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willson Center for Arts and Humanities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at UGA, and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantahistorycenter.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atlanta History Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the University of Georgia Press:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University\u2019s place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world. The UGA Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state, currently publishes 60\u201370 new books a year, and has a long history of publishing significant scholarship, creative and literary works, and books about the state and the region for general readers. To learn more about the UGA Press and its publications, authors, and events, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.ugapress.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, October 15, the Digital Library of Georgia is thrilled to announce the Georgia Open History Library launch from our partners at the University of Georgia Press.\u00a0 The collection is now available in our Georgia portal and through other public outlets,\u00a0including:\u00a0 UGA Press\u2019s Manifold platform; Affordable Learning Georgia; Digital Public Library of America Exchange and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Georgia Open History Library launches today!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,176,175],"tags":[800,10,801,73,802,337,805,592,804,803,799,74,104],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-events","category-new-collections","tag-affordable-learning-georgia","tag-antebellum-era-1800-1860","tag-books","tag-colonial-era-1733-1775","tag-creek-tribe","tag-ebooks","tag-french-enlightenment-in-america","tag-georgia-history","tag-indigenous-peoples","tag-muscogee","tag-open-access","tag-revolution-and-early-republic-1775-1800","tag-university-of-georgia-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8003,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}