Stories

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.

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.

The Mary Howard Gilbert Memorial Quarry Garden brims with Georgia’s native flora due to the careful consideration of Mr. Cline.

Microscope used by Dr. Charles Shepard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

This tree that was so much a part of the American landscape for an estimated 40 million years, was made functionally extinct in forty.

Atlanta’s history of influential and entrepreneurial women includes Adelle Bartlett Harper, the first woman to own and operate a florist shop in Atlanta in 1921.