
I’ve categorized some favorite resources for those interested in Atlanta generally and Atlanta history specifically below:
Advocacy organizations & museums
- American Battlefield Trust
- Atlanta History Center
- Atlanta Preservation Center
- Buckhead Heritage Society
- Easements Atlanta
- Historic Oakland Foundation
- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park
- National Center for Civil and Human Rights
- William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
- Wren’s Nest
Archives
- Georgia Archives Virtual Vault at the University System of Georgia
- Digital Archives of the Georgia State University Library
- Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University
Blogs
Censuses
- 1850 U.S. federal census
- 1850 slave schedule
- 1860 U.S. federal census
- 1860 slave schedule
- 1870 U.S. federal census
- 1880 U.S. federal census
- 1896 Atlanta city census
- 1900 U.S. federal census
- 1910 U.S. federal census
- 1920 U.S. federal census
- 1930 U.S. federal census
- 1940 U.S. federal census
Historical newspapers
Local media
Maps
- 1850s
- 1871 (Birds-eye view)
- 1877
- 1878 (Shows property owners)
- 1882
- 1886 (Sanborn Fire Insurance)
- 1889
- 1891
- 1892 (Sanborn Fire Insurance)
- 1892 (Birds-eye view)
- 1893 (Fulton County)
- 1894
- 1895 (Piedmont Park; Sanborn Fire Insurance)
- 1899 (Sanborn Fire Insurance)
- 1902
- 1904
- 1911 (Sanborn Fire Insurance)
- 1919 (Birds-eye view)
- 1929 (Downtown)
Non-fiction architecture
- AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta (1993) by Isabelle Gournay
- American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze (1989) by Elizabeth Meredith Dowling
- Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoods (1994) by Joseph F. Thompson & Robert Isbell
- Classic Atlanta: Landmarks of the Atlanta Spirit (1991) by William R. Mitchell, Jr. & Van Jones Martin
- Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens (2018) by Staci Catron & Mary Ann Eaddy
- The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta’s Scholar Architect (2012) by Robert M. Craig
Non-fiction history
- Atlanta: A Portrait of the Civil War (1999) by Michael Rose
- Atlanta Illustrated (1881) by E. Y. Clarke
- Atlanta: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (1922) by John R. Hornady
- Atlanta & Environs (1969), 2 vols. by Franklin Garrett
- The Black Side (1894) by the Rev. E. R. Carter
- Buckhead: A Place for All Time (1996) by Susan Kessler Barnard
- Caring for Atlanta: A History of Emory Crawford Long Hospital (2003) by Ren Davis
- Georgia: A Guide to its Towns and Countryside (1940) by Workers of the Writers’ Program of the WPA
- The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, American, and the Story of Golf by Mark Frost
- History of Atlanta, Georgia (1889) by Wallace P. Reed
- Official History of Fulton County (1934) by Walter G. Cooper
- Peachtree Street, Atlanta (1962) by William B. Williford
- Pioneer Citizens’ History of Atlanta (1902) by the Pioneer Citizens’ Society of Atlanta
- A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians (varies), 6 vols. by Lucian L. Knight
- Tincture of Time: The Story of 150 Year of Medicine in Atlanta (1995) by Martin Moran
- Yesterday’s Atlanta (1974) by Franklin Garrett
Periodicals
Podcasts
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