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URL:https://www.gpb.org/events/community/2026/07/09/georgia-in-the-american
 -revolution-author-panel
LOCATION:260 14th St. NW ATLANTA\, GA 30318
SUMMARY:Georgia in the American Revolution: An Author Panel
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:About the Authors:\n\nGreg Brooking is an award-winning histori
 an of early America\, the American Revolution\, and the colonial South. He
  received his PhD in History from Georgia State University and is the auth
 or of From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty
  in Georgia (University of Georgia Press\, 2024). He has taught high schoo
 l and college since 1994\, joining the staff of North Springs High Schools
  (Atlanta\, Fulton County\, GA) in 2015. Brooking is currently working on 
 his second book\, Henry Laurens: A Southern Founder.\n\nSelected Works: F
 rom Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Geo
 rgia\n\nRobert Davis is one of the nation’s foremost scholars on the Rev
 olutionary War in Georgia\, and his work has been published extensively in
  the Journal of the American Revolution. Davis is a retired professor of G
 enealogy and History who built a research collection at Wallace State Comm
 unity College\, Hanceville\, Alabama\, which pioneered promoting and teach
 ing local and family history research in a college environment. Davis has 
 a Doctor of Philosophy from Mellen University\, a Master of Education in H
 istory from the University of North Georgia\, and a Master of Arts from th
 e University of Alabama at Birmingham. He holds an accounting and computer
  science certificate from Pickens Area Technical School and has done gradu
 ate work at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He is the author of o
 ver 2\,000 publications on genealogy\, history\, records\, and research\, 
 including over forty books and 140 articles in archival\, educational\, an
 d historical publications.\n\nSelected Works:  Research in Georgia: With
  a Special Emphasis on the Georgia Department of Archives and HistoryThe W
 ilkes County PapersThe Georgia Black Book: Morbid\, Macabre\, and Sometime
 s Disgusting Records of Genealogical ValueGeorgia Citizens and Soldiers of
  the American RevolutionGhosts and Shadows of Andersonville\n\nW. Wright M
 itchell\, President and CEO of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
 \, is an Atlanta native and prominent advocate for safeguarding Georgia’
 s historic places\, with over two decades of leadership in preservation. A
  former civil litigator\, he founded the Buckhead Heritage Society and gui
 ded it through a decade of impactful projects\, while also contributing nu
 merous articles on Atlanta history to newspapers\, magazines\, and scholar
 ly journals. His research centers on colonial Georgia\, the Revolutionary 
 War\, and the state’s early political development\, culminating in his b
 iography of John Adam Treutlen\, Georgia’s first elected governor. A gra
 duate of The Lovett School\, the University of South Carolina\, and Emory 
 University School of Law\, Mitchell has served on multiple cultural and pr
 eservation boards\, including the Atlanta Preservation Center\, the Georgi
 a Governor’s Mansion Executive Fine Arts Committee\, and the City of Atl
 anta Sesquicentennial Civil War Commission.\n\nSelected Works: Georgia’
 s First Elected Governor: John Adam Treutlen and the American Revolution\n
 \nPaul M. Pressly received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford\, serv
 ed as head of the Savannah Country Day School and then as the director of 
 the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance from 2005–2017\; he now serves as 
 director emeritus. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Universit
 y of Georgia Press and of the Board of Editors of the Georgia Historical 
 Quarterly. Pressly is the author of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial
  Georgia and the British Atlantic World and A Southern Underground Railroa
 d: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country. 
 In addition\, he served as coeditor of Coastal Nature\, Coastal Culture: E
 nvironmental Histories of the Georgia Coast and as assistant editor of Afr
 ican American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the G
 ullah Geechee. The University of Georgia Press published the four books. 
 \n\nSelected Works: On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the
  British Atlantic WorldA Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians an
 d the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country\n\nMichael L. Thurmond
  was the chief executive officer of DeKalb County\, Georgia\, from 2017 to
  2024. He was a finalist for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2025 
 for his book James Oglethorpe\, Father of Georgia. His other books are Fre
 edom: Georgia’s Antislavery Heritage\, 1733–1865\, and A Story Untold:
  Black Men and Women in Athens History. Thurmond previously served in the 
 Georgia legislature\, as director of Georgia’s Division of Family and Ch
 ildren Services\, Georgia labor commissioner\, and as superintendent of De
 Kalb schools. In 1997\, Thurmond became a distinguished lecturer at the Un
 iversity of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government. He lives in S
 tone Mountain\, Georgia.\n\nSelected Works:James Oglethorpe\, Father of Ge
 orgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to AbolitionistFreedom: Geo
 rgia’s Antislavery Heritage\, 1733-1865A Story Untold: Black Men and Wom
 en in Athens History\n\nAbout the Moderator\n\nOrlando Montoya was the Sav
 annah-based news producer for GPB from 1998-2014.  He won numerous awards
  for reporting on coastal issues during that time.  In 2022\, now in Atla
 nta\, he returned to GPB as the statewide newscaster producer.  He studie
 d Radio-Television at the University of Central Florida and has worked at 
 six radio stations in Florida and Georgia.\n\nAccessibility: If you have a
 ccessibility needs\, please fill out this form or contact Christian Stegal
 l at cstegall@gpb.org.  
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