Cobb County in 1920
2023-08-22 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
August 22 @ 7:00 – 8:15 pm ET (Hybrid)
First Presbyterian Church, 189 Church Street, Marietta, GA
Topic: Cobb County between the World Wars: The Twilight Before the Modern Era
Speaker: Dr. Thomas A. Scott, Professor Emeritus of History and Campus Historian, Kennesaw State University
Tom was a full-time faculty member of Kennesaw State University for forty-three years (1968 to 2011). His specialties are Georgia history and oral history, and he has also taught seminars and graduate classes on local history, the history of suburban America, and the history of American higher education. He earned a PhD in history from the University of Tennessee in 1978 with a dissertation entitled “Cobb County, Georgia, 1880-1900: A Socioeconomic Study of an Upper Piedmont County.” In retirement he continues to head the KSU Oral History Project, which documents and preserves the memories of a diverse group of Cobb Countians and North Georgians as well as faculty and friends of KSU. Tom and his students have conducted more than 800 interviews, many available online through the KSU Archives.
