Sunday Lecture: The Cherokee Phoenix: 1828-1839

Sunday, January 8, 2023
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Library, Meeting Room
Light refreshments will be served.

Dr. George Lamplugh will present "The News from Cherokee Country:  Elias Boudinot and the Cherokee Phoenix, 1828-1839." The Cherokee Phoenix was the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language. The presentation is both a biography of Boudinot, the founding editor of the Phoenix (1828-1832), and a look at the history of the Cherokee tribal newspaper, which survived, for a couple of years following Boudinot's resignation from the paper.  

Presenter:  Dr. George Lamplugh is the former Social Studies Department Chair at Atlanta's Westminster School. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and has written three books on aspects of Georgia's early political history, including In Pursuit of Dead Georgians: One Historian's Excursions Into the History of His Adopted State.

The Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.