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Bryan, T. Conn. Confederate Georgia University of Georgia Press, 1953. Chaplin, Joyce E. "Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760–1815." Journal of Southern History 57.2 (1991): 171–200 online. Coleman, Kenneth. Confederate Athens, 1861–1865 University of Georgia Press, 1967; the city of Athens in the war years
University of Tennessee; Tennessee State University; TSU is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It was founded in 1909 as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School and became the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College two years later.
Among Georgia's public universities is the flagship research university, the University of Georgia, founded in 1785 as the country's oldest state-chartered university and the birthplace of the American system of public higher education. [140] The University System of Georgia is the presiding body over public post-secondary education in the state.
Tennessee State University: Nashville: Tennessee: 1912 Public Founded as "Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School" Yes Texas College: Tyler: Texas: 1894 Private [p] Yes Texas Southern University: Houston: Texas: 1927 Public Founded as "Texas State University for Negroes" Yes Tougaloo College: Hinds County: Mississippi: 1869 Private [z]
State university 132 acres (0.53 km 2) Fort Valley State University: Fort Valley: State university, HBCU: 1,365 acres (5.52 km 2) Georgia College & State University: Milledgeville: State university 602 acres (2.44 km 2) Georgia Southwestern State University: Americus: State university 325 acres (1.32 km 2) Middle Georgia State University: Macon ...
Castleton University in Vermont is the oldest state university in New England, chartered in 1787. This was soon followed by the charter of The University of Vermont (UVM) in 1791. However, neither institution was a "state university" in the modern sense of the term until many decades later. Castleton began as the Rutland County Grammar School.
Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries.
Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. [5] Tennessee State University offers 41 bachelor's degrees, 23 master's degrees, and eight doctoral degrees. [6] [7] It is classified as "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". [8]