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Author Index
                         
Richard Cloues
Building Types: Overview
Within the large and diverse architectural heritage of Georgia there are clear architectural patterns...
House Types
Houses make up more than three-quarters of all the historic buildings in Georgia. They also constitute...
Earle D. Clowney
Clark Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University (CAU), located southwest of downtown Atlanta, is a private, urban, coeducational...
James C. Cobb
Georgia History: Overview
In many ways Georgia's history is integrally linked to that of the rest of the South and the rest of...
Hart County
When it was carved out of Elbert and Franklin counties in 1853, Hart became the only county in Georgia...
Hartwell
Hartwell is the seat of Hart County, which was named for Revolutionary War (1775-83) heroine Nancy Hart...
Lewis Grizzard (1946-1994)
Georgia-born humorist and best-selling author Lewis Grizzard conveyed the ambivalence of many white southerners...
Peter A. Coclanis
Rice
Rice, Georgia's first staple crop, was the most important commercial agricultural commodity in the Lowcountry...
Dan T. Coenen
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
Relying on "substantive due process" precedents—including the U.S. Supreme Court's earlier...
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
is the most famous and the most important of the U.S. Supreme Court's eighteenth-century...
City of Rome v. United States (1980)
Race-based discrimination with respect to voting has pervaded American history, and the U.S. Congress...
Coker v. Georgia (1977)
Despite the rejection of broadside attacks on capital sentencing in cases like(1976)...
Doe v. Bolton (1973)
In early cases, such as(1810), the U.S. Supreme Court flirted with the notion that American...
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Thecase arose out of the Yazoo land fraud, which came to light after bribed members of the Georgia...
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Before 1972 Georgia and other states that provided for capital punishment used systems that gave juries...
Gray v. Sanders (1963)
Chief Justice Earl Warren once said that the most important judicial pronouncements of his tenure were...
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in—which involved a prosecution for a double murder...
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
Many path-breaking U.S. Supreme Court cases have grown out of Georgia's long and tragic history of racial...
McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
In(1976), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument that capital sentencing was in...
Screws v. United States (1945)
The U.S. Constitution grants to the U.S. Congress only a limited range of lawmaking authority. Perhaps...
Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
The U.S. Supreme Court's most famous abortion decision,(1973), as well as its companion case...
United States v. Darby (1941)
(1941) was a highly influential case in the history of the relationship between...
Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
In its 1964 ruling in—a suit pursued by a group of Fulton County voters against...
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