Calendar: June 2012

War in Our Backyards: Discovering Atlanta, 1861-1865

Created by the Atlanta History Center and designed to complement the History Center's award-winning permanent exhibition, Turning Point: The American Civil War, the new exhibition War in Our Backyards: Discovering Atlanta, 1861-1865 challenges visitors to consider their personal connections to a war that was literally fought in all of our backyards.

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.

Greetings From Atlanta: A Postcard Retrospective

Greetings from Atlanta: A Postcard Retrospective draws from the Atlanta History Center’s collection of more than 3,000 postcards to provide glimpses of Atlanta and Georgia, while exploring various styles, printing technology, and social history aspects as uncovered by the unique details of its postmark, its message, its sender, and its recipient.

AHC Summer Camp 2012

Atlanta History Center summer campers explore the past and the world around them through enriching and engaging activities. 

Elson Lecture: Andrew Polsky, Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War

Margaret Mitchell House Lecture: Alexandra Fuller, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfullness

In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and her unforgettable family. At the heart of the family is Fuller’s iconic courageous mother, Nicola, or Nicola Fuller of Central Africa as she sometimes prefers to be known. Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye to a warlike clan of highlanders and raised in Kenya's perfect equatorial light, Nicola holds dear the values most likely to get you hurt or killed in Africa: loyalty to blood, passion for land, and a holy belief in the restorative power of all animals. With a lifetime of admiration behind her and after years of interviews and research, Fuller recaptures her mother's inimitable voice with remarkable precision.