Discover lesser-known online tools and strategies to enhance your productivity. This overview offers advance assignments (approximately 6 hours) to deepen your understanding, ensuring you maximize your class time efficiently. Join us for 1.5 hours of lecture, followed by 1.5 hours of hands-on exercises post-break where you will apply newfound resources immediately. Elevate your genealogical journey with unconventional approaches and unearth the stories of your ancestors like never before! Please register at least 2 days before class so you have time for the homework.

From 1820 to 1970, many Athenians lived above Hancock Ave downtown in homes ranging from small cottages to impressive mansions mostly dating to the 19th century. In the 1960s this vibrant neighborhood was swept away in Athens' largest urban renewal project, clearing hundreds of buildings between Pulaski and the Oconee River from Hancock to the CSX tracks. Drawing on extensive photographs and documents in the Hargrett Library, Athens Magic Lantern will lead you on a virtual stroll through what were some of the oldest residential streets in Athens, revealing a way of life that just isn't the same as Greek Revival Cobbham.

Everyone knows that the Classic City is the birthplace of several prominent bands including the B-52s, REM, and Widespread Panic, to name a few. But what was it like before that? Take a trip down memory lane and see what the local music scene was like in the 1950s and 1960s. The presentation will include rare newspaper advertisements, posters, and stories about the early bands that emerged from Athens and traveled the Southeast. And participants will hear little-known stories of the role the University's social organizations played in social and political change on campus and beyond

Filmed in 2020 and premiered at the Little White House on April 12, 2021, A President in Our Midst has won several awards for excellence. Created in collaboration with Georgia Humanities, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and Georgia State University TV, this one-hour documentary received the Bronze Telly in 2022 and Southern Film Festival's Best documentary in 2021. The film, based on the book by Kaye Minchew and published by UGA Press, was filmed throughout Georgia and tells the story of FDR's relationship to the state. Minchew, Executive Producer Dan White, and Roosevelt's great-grandson, Haven Luke, will discuss FDR and Georgia.