Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985.

Abstract

The Georgia Institute of Technology as well as the University of Georgia celebrated landmark birthdays of their foundings in 1985 (UGA its bicentennial; GT its centennial). Both, fortunately, have issued honest and creditable histories to mark their anniversaries. The University's bicentennial history appeared early in 1985 and had one author, Professor Thomas G. Dyer. Tech's history (also published by the University of Georgia Press) was released in October and had the disadvantage of six authors and no discernible coordinating editor. Yet the result is better than might be expected from a book written by a committee. Six members of the Georgia Tech faculty, all of them historians, joined in a cooperative effort to produce Engineering the New South. The preface specifies who had primary responsibil-