| The Center for Regional History & Culture
Sponsors programs for the general public,
bringing in guest lecturers who are experts on the region.
Serves as a resource for area educators who teach Georgia history, and
all teachers interested in integrating local history into the school curriculum.
Maintains a speakers' bureau of KSU faculty associates who will talk to
local historical societies or civic groups.
Engages in research on the history of the area.
Web Resources
In time, our website will offer
access to oral histories and other primary sources; assistance for public
school teachers to incorporate resources and expertise from the Center
into their classrooms; an online newsletter with announcements of activities,
programs, and other information on local historical societies; and an
electronic journal, distributed via e-mail and the World Wide Web to serve
local historical societies and the broader community of Northwest Georgia
by encouraging and publishing scholarship on the history and culture of
the region.
Historic Preservation
Center personnel provide advice to individuals and community groups engaged
in historic-preservation efforts.
Applied Research
The Center encourages research on all aspects of the history and culture
of Northwest Georgia. Long-term goals include publishing a scholarly
history of the region, detailing the social and economic transformation
of this once-rural agrarian region, and producing a video history series,
beginning with a documentary on the origins and development of the carpet
industry in Northwest Georgia.
Historical Materials
The Center's oral history program adds to the university's growing collections
- the Cobb County Oral History Project and the Carpet History Project
Oral History Series. Many of these valuable primary sources are available
via the World Wide Web - an electronic resource base for the study of
Northwest Georgia's history and culture. Please see Tom Scott's website
for a list of oral histories available through the Bentley Rare Book
Gallery and the Georgia Room of the Cobb County Public Library System.
Several interviews with former Bell Aircraft employees and rare photos
of the plant are available online at http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~tscott/
. The Center also solicits manuscript collections from community members
to preserve these resources for present and future historians of Georgia
and the South, and strives to coordinate these activities with those
of the local historical societies and other archival repositories in
the area.
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