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Screws v. United States (1945)
The U.S. Constitution grants to the U.S. Congress only a limited range of lawmaking authority. Perhaps...

Sea Island
Sea Island is an internationally known resort and cottage colony located off the Georgia coast near ...

Sea Island Company
The Sea Island Company is a family-owned hospitality and real estate corporation that was founded in...

Sea Turtles
Sea turtles are migratory marine reptiles whose ancestors have inhabited earth's oceans since the late...

Leah Ward Sears (b. 1955)
Leah Ward Sears served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 2005 until 2009. During...

Secession
Georgia's secession from the Union followed nearly two decades of increasingly intense sectional conflict...

Secretary of State
The secretary of state, an elected constitutional official, is responsible for a wide range of services...

Georgia and the Sectional Crisis
Georgia played a pivotal role in the sectional crisis of the 1850s, in which southern politicians struggled...

Segregation
Beginning in the 1890s, Georgia and other southern states passed a wide variety of Jim Crow laws that...

Self-Taught Artists
Self-taught artists have made significant contributions to Georgia's artistic heritage. Their works range...

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