University of West Georgia Special Collections

This collection contains oral histories on the University of West Georgia's Technology-enhanced Learning Center (TLC) and is part of the UWG Public History Center's Oral History Project.

This collection contains the records of the Department of History at West Georgia College and, later, the State University of West Georgia. Department of History.

This collection contains blueprints, land surveys, membership directories, membership files, photographs, published materials, letters, church programs and directories, sheet music, church newsletters, photograph negatives, photograph slides, training manuals, scrapbooks, CDs, floppy discs, and other materials pertaining to the history and operations of the First Baptist Church Carrollton for the years 1902-2018.

Papers of William (known as W. Fred) Gunn, Dean of West Georgia College from 1933 to 1946.

Public and private papers of the second principal of the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School in Georgia, who then became the first president of West Georgia College. His term as the first president of West Georgia College lasted from 1933-1960.

Newspapers, Photographs, and Documents of the Joe McGinnis family estate, Mr. McGinnis served as Carrollton mayor from 1993 to 1999 and member of the Carrollton City School Board from 1977-1993 and 2001-2013.

Papers of Joe McGinnis, Carrollton mayor from 1993 to 1999 and member of the Carrollton City School Board from 1977-1993 and 2001-2013.

Papers of professor emeritus of history and Newt Gingrich biographer, Mel Steely. Steely taught at the University of West Georgia from 1964 to 2004 and worked as a congressional advisor for Newt Gingrich from 1978 to 1992.

This collection contains materials related to the history of the Women's Missionary Union (WMU) of the Carrollton Baptist Association and the history of the churches within the Carrollton Baptist Association. There are also materials on the general history of Georgia Baptists including information on the Sixth World Congress of the Baptist World Alliance held in Atlanta in 1939.