Grant narratives
Selection options
Round 2
Title lists
The Progressive Era Georgia option contains newspapers from different regions of the state published during the national Progressive Era (1890-1920). The papers published during this time period carried news about the efforts of the New South movement, the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, the Populist, Suffrage, and Civil Rights movements in Georgia, and the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.
This selection option would focus solely on digitizing the Atlanta Georgian newspaper. The publication was purchased by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hurst in 1912. Under the editorial leadership of his son R. A. Hurst, the paper took a yellow journalism approach and was the third largest paper in the city in the 1920s. The selection of this option would highlight the history of Georgia’s capital during the late Progressive Era and the practices of sensationalist journalism in the United States during that period.
This selection option would focus on Georgia counties that are not currently represented in online digitized newspaper collections. The publications from this selection list are from smaller communities and consist largely of weekly newspapers of record published between 1880 and 1925.