Political Contexts

The rise of the New Deal and the decline of Jim Crow

Historian Jason Morgan Ward on Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge's response to the New Deal

Jan 12, 2023 • Joseph Nichols

On December 9, 1905, in the little town of Baxley, GA, some 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, gubernatorial candidate Hoke Smith, who was the former U.S.

Nov 22, 2022 • Joseph Nichols

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