Stories

This summer, along with history and civics organizations across the country, we invite you to join in a program dedicated to the Civic Season.

From providing aid near battlefields to serving on the frontlines of a public health crisis, the Red Cross is constantly adapting to the community’s needs.

In 1962, Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. ordered the construction of a the barricade served to sever the main line connecting the white and Black sections of the Cascade Heights neighborhood.

Yann and Mareth Mak escaped Cambodia with their eight children arriving in Atlanta in October 1981 to get away from genocide carried out by Khmer Rouge.

For more than fifty years, Ethel Mae Matthews worked tirelessly for greater welfare rights for Atlanta’s poor and disabled.

Atlanta’s Paralympic Games represent many significant benchmarks for Paralympic and disability history.

One way Atlanta History Center works to fulfill our mission of connecting people and culture with history is by serving as a headquarters for Fulton County 4-H.

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow explores the African American struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the 50 years following the Civil War.

While each person on the Private Events staff is an integral part of the team’s overall success, there is one person who everyone unanimously considers their mentor.

In advance of the 1996 Olympic Games, organizers in Atlanta worked to harness the power of new technologies to showcase the city as cutting edge and progressive—just as many host cities before them had done.

One of the 1996 Olympic Games’ polarizing feat of technology and design was the ‘96 Games’ mascot: Izzy.

Honoring the legacy of baseball player, racial equality activist, and historic home run record breaker, Hank Aaron.

For more than 150 years, unwavering young activists have taken up the torch and blazed their own trail through history.

Lady Bird Johnson’s focus during the White House years shifted the spotlight from herself onto something that concerned all Americans: the environment.