Tag: Atlanta History Center

Thirty years after the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the people who transformed a long-shot bid into a global triumph reflect on the relationships, risks, and determination that helped make Atlanta an international city—and on the lasting impact the Games had on their own lives and careers.

To celebrate the Atlanta History Center's centennial—which coincides with the nation’s 250th birthday—the center will unveil six ambitious new exhibitions. Debuting this month is More Perfect Union, a centerpiece exhibition that explores Atlanta’s role in the Civil War.

From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthplace to a museum devoted to Coca-Cola, here are 10 Atlanta must-do’s

In honor of America’s 250th birthday this year, the National Archives has created a traveling exhibition of some of the nation’s most significant founding documents. The Freedom Plane National Tour: Documents That Forged a Nation makes its first stop on an eight-city tour beginning this weekend at the Atlanta History Center.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution print edition, 157, dies on December 31, 2025, succumbing to burgeoning digital news coverage. No service is planned. The paper’s survivors will include 40,000 Atlanta Journal-Constitution print subscribers. In lieu of flowers, readers are asked to refresh their browsers.

Less than seven years after the first airplane took flight, aviation arrived in Atlanta on the same site as today’s Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In 1925, the company that would eventually become Delta Air Lines formed, and that same year, the City of Atlanta leased an early airfield south of the city for its first municipal airport. We have partnered with the Atlanta History Center for this century-long timeline of Hartsfield-Jackson and Delta Air Lines.

I’ve been to the Atlanta History Center building numerous times, meeting friends for coffee at Brash. I’ve often peered into the pristine museum while...

President Carter was someone who the South could be proud to call its own. He embodied the best qualities of the region while rejecting those that held us back as a country and as a people. He was curious, introspective, and like all good Southerners, stubborn as hell.

21 Savage plays Lakewood, the Atlanta History Center celebrates Juneteenth, and more fun things to do this week.

I'm not sure who created the term artrepreneur, but it characterizes the Atlanta art scene very well. I am declaring 2024 year the rise of the independent, self-producing artist.