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Artifacts
Primary-source evidence and supporting materials used across TAP essays and field notes.
A People and a Nation
The chapter on Reconstruction in the American History textbook A People and a Nation (1980), which was in broad use in high schools in the early 1980s.
A People and a Nation
The chapter on Reconstruction in the American History textbook A People and a Nation (1980), which was in broad use in high schools in the early 1980s.
Gordon Descendants Letter
A 2020 letter from the descendants of John B. Gordon asking Gov. Brian Kemp to remove the Gordon statue from the Capitol lawn, citing "brutalization and dehumanization of black people."
Bullock Home
Report of the loss of all of the family papers of Rufus Bullock, sold to stamp collectors.
Nemesis 1
Page 1 of the first Nemesis Letter, published Feb. 14, 1871, in the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
Thomas Norwood
Thomas Norwood, who would soon go on to be elected U.S. Senator, penned the 1871 "Nemesis Letters" that smeared Bullock, creating a narrative that would stick in the Dunning School of Reconstruction scholarship.
A letter from Carlton to Bullock, 1871
A letter from Simon Carlton of Cobb County to Rufus Bullock, April 1871, detailing the abuses of the KKK; page 3
Carroll Hart Note on Bullock
A note from state archivist Carroll Hart, circa 1963, calling out the missing images of former governors including Rufus Bullock.
Rumors of Rufus
A clipping from 1934 recalling a memory of a portrait of Rufus Bullock that once hung in the Capitol.
Rufus Bullock Nameplate
A nameplate once attached to a portrait that hung on the walls of the Georgia State Capitol, found recently by Capitol Museum Registrar Karin Johnston Dalton.