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By Shari Peoples Charlie Frank Hollis, my great grandfather, entered this world on February 27, 1900, in Carroll County Georgia. In 1918, he married Ina Ophelia Holloway, born December 12, 1900. Mama and Papa Hollis, as they were known by most of us, lived on a farm in the hills of Alabama. Papa Hollis was… Read more
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By Shari Peoples The Great Depression is considered the worst economic crisis in American history. While there were numerous contributing factors to this devastating event, widespread panic among banking customers led to bank failures and played a vital role in the country’s descent from a recession into depression. As fear drove depositors to empty their… Read more
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By Shari Peoples The story of Hermann Lemp started in Berne, Switzerland in 1862 where he was born and began his engineering studies. He was nineteen when he immigrated to the United States and started working in the laboratories of Thomas Eddison. Lemp worked with Edison for just one year before moving on. He spent… Read more
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By Shari Peoples At the time of America’s founding, most of the country held narrow views of acceptable religion. Thomas Jefferson, a proponent of exercising free choice in religion, was instrumental in seeing legislation passed by the Virginia Assembly that would protect that freedom. In his Republican Notes on Religion, Jefferson set forth the idea… Read more
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An Economic Comparison between Georgia and Mississippi By Shari Peoples Life in the Postbellum era of southern America was marked by destruction of both the economic structure and ideologies that were at the very heart of its existence. Recovery would require a commitment to rebuilding from the ashes of war and development of industry… Read more
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