Keeping It Real

Abstract

Three years ago, we launched the Civil War 150 Historical Marker Project, a partnership between GHS and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, with additional support from Georgia Battlefields Association, Georgia Department of Labor and Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Using an old form of public history—historical markers—and coupling them with the best in recent scholarship and the latest in online technology, this initiative is building heritage tourism while promoting a better and more thorough understanding of the conflict.