Lucian Lamar Knight is perhaps best known as an editor for the Atlanta Constitution, and the founder
and first director of the Georgia Archives.
In 1913 Knight was appointed compiler of Georgia state records and began work on volumes 22-26 of Colonial Records;
Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends (1913-14), and the six volumes of
Standard History of Georgia and Georgians (1917).
He lobbied with much zeal for a state archives and achieved his goal after a prolonged and heated political battle.
Even after he was appointed director of the Georgia Department of Archives and History (later Georgia Archives)
in 1918, he had to fend off political enemies who sought to abolish his office.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME I
Section 1. The Colonial Period or Georgia under the English Crown, 1732-1775 1
Section 2. The Revolutionary Period or Georgia in the Struggle for Independence, 1775-1783 259
Section 3. The Early Commonwealth Period or the Beginnings of a Great State, 1783-1802 343
Section 4. The Period of Expansion or Georgia in the Process of Growth, 1802-1857 447
VOLUME II
Section 4. (Continued.) The Period of Expansion or Georgia in the Process of Growth, 1802-1857 611
Section 5. The Period of Division or Georgia in the Assertion of State Rights, 1857-1872 705
Section 6. The Period of Rehabilitation or Georgia's Rise from the Aslies of War, 1872-1916 853
Appendix. Georgia Miscellanies 1219
VOLUME III
Part 1. Georgia in the Realm of Anecdote, Wit, Humor, Episode and Incident 1271
Part 2. Georgia in the Forum of Eloquence 1481
Part 3. Georgia in the Republic of Letters 1745
Part 4. Georgia Songs 1767
Part 5. Georgia, the Empire State. of Today 1777
VOLUMES IV - VI BIOGRAPHIES