James Edward Oglethorpe : new perspectives on his life and legacy /
Inscoe, John C.,1951-
Georgia Historical Society.
James Edward Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission.
Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.)
Savannah, Ga. : Georgia Historical Society : James Edward Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission ; [Atlanta, Ga.] : Oglethorpe University,
c1997.
"A tercentenary commemoration".
Chiefly a collection of previously published articles from various periodicals.
Includes bibliographical references.
The vexed question of Oglethorpe's birth date / by Paul Stephen Hudson -- James Edward Oglethorpe, sometime gentleman commoner of corpus / by Sir Keith Thomas -- The prison death of Robert Castell and its impact on Georgia's founding / by Rodney M. Baine -- Oglethorpe's forty Irish convicts / by Rodney M. Baine -- Oglethorpe, Georgia, and the Spanish threat / by Phinizy Spalding -- Behind the lines / by Harvey H. Jackson III -- Oglethorpe's account of the 1745 escape of the Scots at Shap / by Edward J. Cashin -- Oglethorpe as revolutionary propagandist / by Richard C. Cole --Profile of an old independent / by Phinizy Spalding -- "Awake from visioned sleep!" / by Paul Stephen Hudson.
Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1696-1785.
Governors