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

• Atlanta Time Machine
• History Atlanta
• Lewis Crook, Architect
• Past Tense GA

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

• Digital Library of Georgia’s Georgia Historic Newspapers

Local media

• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Axios Atlanta
• Saporta Report
• Urbanize Atlanta
• WABE
• WSB

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

• Atlanta City Builder
• Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South

Podcasts

• Archive Atlanta
• Georgia Tech’s Building Memories

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