United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Groce, W. Todd2004-06-15Encyclopedia article about William Bacon Stevens. William Bacon Stevens's A History of Georgia, published in 1847 (volume 1) and 1859 (volume 2), stands today as a monument to the man and the society of which he was a founder. "It was a scholarly work, far beyond any other history which had ever appeared in Georgia or in a majority of other states, and has not yet been superseded," wrote the eminent Georgia historian E. Merton Coulter in 1972. Yet at the time of its publication, Stevens's long-awaited book stirred a controversy among historians across Georgia--partly, no doubt, because a northerner had dared to write the first scholarly history of the Deep South state.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Scholars--GeorgiaHistorians--GeorgiaClergy--GeorgiaGeorgia Historical SocietyEpiscopalians--GeorgiaStevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887Authors, American--GeorgiaWilliam Bacon Stevens (1815-1887)Text