Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years

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Contributors Born in Koscuisko, Mississippi, RODNEY M. BAINE graduated from Rhodes College, received three degrees from Oxford University, and his doctorate from Harvard. He has taught at the University of Missouri, M. I.T., the University of Alabama at Montevallo, and the University of Georgia, where he is Franklin Professor of English, Emeritus. He has published numerous scholarly articles and four books, including a critical biography of America's first comic dramatist-Robert Munford. Phinizy Spalding and he are editing the writings of General Oglethorpe. EDWARD J. CASHIN is chairman of the Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy at Augusta College. He is the author of many articles on Georgia history (one of which won the Georgia Historical Society's E. Merton Coulter Award), and his books include Augusta and the American Revolution (with Heard Robertson), The Story of Augusta, and Colonial Augusta: "Key of the Indian Countrey." Professor Cashin recently received the Governor's Award in the Humanities from the Georgia Endowment for the Humanities for his efforts to acquaint Augustans with the history and heritage of their community. KENNETH COLEMAN was born in Devereux, Georgia, and grew up there and in Atlanta where he attended Boys' High School. He received his A. B. and M. A. degrees from the University of Georgia and his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of the history faculty of the University ofGeorgia, where he is now professor emeritus. His specialty is Georgia history. Among his books are The American Revolution in Georgia, Colonial Georgia: A History, A History of Georgia (general editor and coauthor), Dictionary of Georgia Biography {coeditor 233 234 Contributors and contributor), and seven volumes in the series The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (coeditor). LOUIS DE VORSEY, JR. holds degrees from Montclair State College, Indiana University, and the University of London and is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Georgia. His many honors include the Association of American Geographers Citation and Me.. dallion for Meritorious Contributions to the Field of Geography (1975) and the Association of American Geographers Honor Award in Ap.. plied Geography (1983). Among his books are The Indian Boundary in the Southern District of North America, De Brahm's Report of the General Survey in the Southern District of North America, and The Georgia-South Carolina Boundary: A Problem in Historical Geography. EDWIN L. JACKSON is a state government associate at the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government. He is author of the Handbook of Georgia State Agencies, the Handbook for Georgia Legisla.. tors, and a variety of other publications and audiovisual documentaries on Georgia history and government. Additionally, he serves as execu.. tive director of the Friends of Oglethorpe, an organization that seeks to promote scholarship and understanding of the life of James Edward Oglethorpe. HARVEY H. JACKSON grew up in Grove Hill, Alabama, attended Marion Institute, Birmingham Southern College, The University of Alabama, and received his Ph. D. from the University of Georgia. He is currently professor of history at Clayton State College. His books include Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia, Forty Years of Diver... sity: Essays on Colonial Georgia (coeditor and contributor), and Georgia Signers and the Declaration of Independence (coauthor). His articles have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, Georgia Historical Quar... terly, Atlanta Historical Journal, and Southern Studies. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, PHINIZY SPALDING attended school there and in Maryland, received his A. B. and M.A. degrees from the Univer.. sity of Georgia, and his Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina. His first teaching assignment was at the College of Charleston. He is now professor of history at the University of Georgia in Athens. In Contributors 235 addition to editing the Georgia Historical Quarterly from 1974 to 1980, Spalding has published Oglethorpe in America, The History of the Medical College of Georgia, A History of Georgia (coauthor), and Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia (coeditor and contributor). MARY E. WILLIAMS is a native of Savannah. She earned the A.B. at Georgia Southern College, the M.A. at Western Carolina University, and the Ph. D. in eighteenth..century British literature at the University of Georgia. Under the direction of Rodney M. Baine, her dissertation explored the relationship of James Oglethorpe, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell. After receiving her doctorate, she taught for four years in Alabama...