Native Lands: Indians and Georgia

Native Lands: Indians and Georgia celebrates the state’s original inhabitants beginning with the Mississippian peoples and continuing with their descendants, the Creeks and the Cherokees.

Turning Point: The American Civil War

Turning Point: The American Civil War, located in the 9,200-square-foot DuBose Gallery, is one of the nation’s largest and most complete Civil War exhibitions. With over 1,500 Union and Confederate artifacts, including cannons, uniforms, and flags, visitors experience the Civil War through the eyes of soldiers and civilians.

Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down

The Atlanta History Center presents Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down, a traveling exhibition organized by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Party with the Past: Swan House

Come party like it's 1929! Costumes encouraged! RSVP here so we know how much beer to bring.

Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution

In Bunker Hill, Nathaniel Philbrick, award-winning author of In The Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his talents to the story that ignited the American Revolution. With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the geographic and ideological landscape in a narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.

Homeschoolers Choice: 150 Years of Atlanta History

Throughout the year, you submitted ideas for the theme of May’s Homeschool Day, and the results are in. By an overwhelming majority, you chose Atlanta History.

Magic Monday: Bugging Out

This month, your kids learn how important bugs and insects are to us and the world around us.  E walk through our gardens to see the beautiful flowers in bloom and learn about the special relationship between insects and flowers.   Then they create a creepy-crawly inspired craft and bug out to a sing-a-long.

Bank of America Free Admission Weekend

On the third weekend (Saturday and Sunday) of each month, February – June 2013, ALL guests receive FREE admission to the Atlanta History Center, including Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down.

A Family History Conference

A full day of genealogy sessions designed to help you climb the branches of your family tree. Keynote address will be offered by Dr. Larry Spruill of Morehouse College. Sessions cover a wide variety of topics, including African American genealogy, general interest genealogy, using DNA in genealogy research, genealogy courses for youth, and more. 

Centennial Olympic Games Museum

Located in the Fentener van Vlissingen Family Wing, the museum guides visitors through the history of the Olympic movement, from the inception of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece through the modern Olympic Games to the seventeen days of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Games and its legacy.

Down the Fairway with Bobby Jones

Down the Fairway with Bobby Jones is the largest display focused on the man considered the most important golfer in the history of the game.

Elson Lecture: Jeff Shaara: A Chain of Thunder

Continuing the trilogy that began with A Blaze of Glory, the New York Times-bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America’s Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg. There, in the vaunted “Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” a siege for the ages cemented the reputation of one Union general and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.

Military Timeline

Spend a day in the company of veterans and hear their stories of wartime through personal accounts and memorabilia.  Living history interpreters represent soldiers of previous wars by showing authentic dress, equipment, and vehicles.

Veterans Park Dedication Ceremony

The newly expanded Veterans Park at the Atlanta History Center is dedicated to all of the men and women who have served - and continue to serve - the United States of America. The Park was designed not as a traditional veterans’ memorial, but as a unique gathering place encouraging reflection, personal connections to veterans, and a celebration of the lives of those who have sacrificed to secure our freedom.

Read more details for the full dedication cerermony program.

Researching African American Genealogy; featuring Franzine Taylor of the Alabama Department of Archives and History (retired)

Location: Auburn Avenue Research Library

Franzine Taylor will discuss the unique challenges associated with conducting African American genealogy research. This community workshop will focus on the skills and resources required to effectively trace your African American family history.

Summer Camp: Dig In!

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

Summer Camp: Survivor: 1860

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

Livingston Lecture Series: Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

From Civil War historian Allen C. Guelzo comes the reality of the Battle of Gettysburg, portraying the ordinary soldier and depicting the personalities and circumstances that produced one of the great battles of all time. Never before has a book examined the intense fighting of the individual soldier, studied the politics of military decisions, or placed the battle in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. What emerges is a previously untold story, and through such scrutiny the cornerstone battle of the Civil War is given vivid new life.

Juneteenth: The First Day of Freedom

This two day celebration focuses on the appreciation, reconciliation, and commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Guests will explore the themes of freedom and family history and include a variety of genealogy workshops, gallery character performances, kid-friendly activities, and self-guided explorations of the traveling exhibition, Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down.

Bank of America Free Admission Weekend

On the third weekend (Saturday and Sunday) of each month, February – June 2013, ALL guests receive FREE admission to the Atlanta History Center, including Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down.

Summer Camp: My Town

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

Summer Camp: Hail to the Chief

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War; Featuring Dr. Lawrence Jackson of Emory University; book signing and discussion

Location: Auburn Avenue Research Library

In his moving historical memoir, My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War, Dr. Lawrence Jackson recounts his family history in Virginia, recalling both the horror of slavery and the later struggles of postbellum freedom.

Summer Camp: Beyond Gettysburg

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

Summer Camp: Weird History

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

Livingston Lecture: Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He recently retired from his position as the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and youngest son.

Summer Camp: The Cold War (Code Name: Spy Camp)

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

Elson Lecture: H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union

H.W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times-bestselling author, he was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin and again for Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Summer Camp: Creatures Great and Small

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

Summer Camp: Adventures in History

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. Join the fun with games, stories, crafts, and outdoor expeditions as well as interactive exhibitions.

AHC Lecture: Earl Hess, Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign

Earl J. Hess is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and is the author of a number of books, including The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.

Livingston Lecture: A. Scott Berg, Wilson

A. Scott Berg is the author of four best-selling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, winner of the National Book Award; Goldwyn: Lindbergh, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and Kate Remembered.

Cherokee Garden Lecture Series: An Evening with Mario Nievera, Forever Green: A Landscape Architect's Innovative Gardens Offer Environments to Love and Delight

Join renowned landscape architect Mario Nievera who will lead us on an illustrated tour of his landscapes throughout the United States as featured in his first book, Forever Green: A Landscape Architect’s Innovative Gardens Offer Environments to Love and Delight. Nievera will showcase his extensive range of designs for civic spaces, parks, and residential estates, such as a garden terrace overlooking New York's Central Park to a public garden attached to The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach. His design work provides an extraordinary opportunity for ideas on how to create your own fabulous landscapes. Mario Nievera has a keen eye and talent to combine hardscape materials and lush plantings creating unique landscape compositions, which are admired and published in design magazines and newspapers throughout the world.