Margaret Mitchell House

Call: (404) 249-7015 or visit www.atlantahistorycenter.com

The house where much of Gone with the Wind was written beckons to tourists and native Atlantans alike who want to understand more about the author of the most popular novel of all time. The house also plays an important part in keeping Atlanta's literary scene alive through regular events with local and national authors. Tours available every half hour.

Past Events

Civic Season Kikckoff Party

Sunday June 12, 2022 02:00 PM EDT 06/12/2022 2:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free,

Juneteenth to July 4th: Two big holidays, one inspiring season. Oh, and a huge party. The launch of Civic Season, a brand new tradition! It’s the launch of Civic Season, a brand new tradition to celebrate what you stand for, and we’re partying. Come out to the Kickoff Party at the Atlanta History ... [click here for more]

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Jelani Favors: Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

Wednesday September 25, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 09/25/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free-$10,

Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became... [click here for more]

Atlanta Authors Spotlight ft. Anissa Gray, Jessica Handler, and Gail O'Neill

Tuesday September 17, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 09/17/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free-$10 ,

Join us in Midtown as we welcome local writers Anissa Gray and Jessica Handler to discuss their debut fiction titles The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls and The Magnetic Girl. [click here for more]

Joan Cashin: War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War

Thursday September 12, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 09/12/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free-$10,

In this path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and material resources necessary to wage war. This war ‘stuff’ included the skills of white Southern civilians as well as such material resources as food, timber, an... [click here for more]

Lynn Cullen Book Launch: The Sister of Summit Avenue

Monday September 9, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 09/09/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free-$10 ,

Taking place in the throes of the Great Depression when jobs were scarce, farms were failing, and families suffered privation, hunger, and worse,The Sisters of Summit Avenue creates an emotional journey of inner strength, redemption, and the ties that bind families together under the best, and worst... [click here for more]

Jonathan Putnam, A House Divided: A Lincoln And Speed Mystery

Thursday July 18, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 07/18/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free-$10,

In the winter of 1839, a sensational disappearance rocks Springfield, Illinois. Not one to pass up an opportunity, Abraham Lincoln takes up the case of the accused with the assistance of his best friend Joshua Speed. But just as soon as they begin, Lincoln and Speed find their friendship at grave ri... [click here for more]

Peachtree Road Race Watch Party

Thursday July 4, 2019 06:30 AM EDT 07/04/2019 6:30 AM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free,

Atlanta History Center Midtown invites you to come party on our front lawn right at 10th & Peachtree Street. Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peachtree Road Race. Cheer on the runners and relax after the race! Grab some patriotic swag, get your face painted, and celebrate history in the ... [click here for more]

SUMMER WRITING CAMP | MYSTERY IN THE CITY: DYSTOPIA: A CITY IN CRISIS

Monday June 17, 2019 09:30 PM EDT 06/17/2019 9:30 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $325 - $375,

AGES 9-14 YEARS Using Atlanta landmarks as a guide to explore dystopian themes, let your imagination soar as you examine challenges facing impacted communities. Journey around the city and craft a storyline that asks “How would Atlanta look and feel in a dystopian future?”, “What resources wou... [click here for more]

SUMMER WRITING CAMP | SPILLING INK

Monday June 10, 2019 09:30 AM EDT 06/10/2019 9:30 AM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $325 - $375,

AGES 9-14 YEARS

Up your writing game by writing pocket-sized stories with lots to say! Explore mini sagas, flash fiction, and vignettes and challenge yourself to communicate an idea with only 100-1000 words.

Margaret Mitchell House writing camps provide an opportunity for youth to discover t... [click here for more]

LOUIS BAYARD, COURTING MR. LINCOLN

Tuesday May 14, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 05/14/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in winter 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he’s a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless in... [click here for more]

TENA CLARK, IN CONVERSATION WITH NATALIE ALLEN | SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: A MEMOIR

Tuesday April 9, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 04/09/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

Tena Clark was born in 1953 in a tiny Mississippi town close to the Alabama border, where the legacy of slavery and racial injustice still permeated every aspect of life. On the outside, Tena’s childhood looked like a fairy tale. Her father was one of the state’s richest men; her mother was a regal ... [click here for more]

An Evening With Randall Kenan (In Conversation With James A. Crank), Understanding Randall Kenan

Thursday March 14, 2019 07:00 PM EDT 03/14/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

Presented by Atlanta History Center Please join us for a night celebrating the life and work of North Carolina author Randall Kenan — a writer best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992), which was a finalist for the Nat... [click here for more]

B.A. SHAPIRO AND TIM JOHNSTON IN CONVERSATION WITH ALISON LAW, THE COLLECTOR’S APPRENTICE AND THE CURRENT

Wednesday February 27, 2019 07:00 PM EST 02/27/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

Join us in Midtown for an evening with fast paced thriller authors B.A. Shapiro and Tim Johnston as they talk about their craft and how they keep their readers guessing until the very last chapter. B.A. and Tim will be interviewed onstage by Alison Law, host of the podcast Literary Atlanta. Abou... [click here for more]

Steve Luxenberg, Seperate: The Story of Plessy vs. Ferguson and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Monday February 25, 2019 07:00 PM EST 02/25/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

Atlanta History Center [click here for more]

Ayesha Harruna Attah, the Hundred Wells of Salaga

Wednesday February 13, 2019 07:00 PM EST 02/13/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

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Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics

Thursday February 7, 2019 07:00 PM EST 02/07/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

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Kristina McMorris

Tuesday February 5, 2019 07:00 PM EST 02/05/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

2 Children for Sale. The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene ev... [click here for more]

Local Event for Mesha Maren, Author of Sugar Run

Thursday January 24, 2019 07:00 PM EST 01/24/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free,

Mesha Maren's short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Fiorty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and other literary journals. She was chosen by Lee Smith as winner of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Pricze and is the recipient of a 20... [click here for more]

Mesha Maren, Sugar Run

Thursday January 24, 2019 07:00 PM EST 01/24/2019 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: Free - $10,

Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta History Center [click here for more]

J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN, SAINTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS

Tuesday August 14, 2018 07:00 PM EDT 08/14/2018 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $10,

Join author J. Courtney Sullivan for a meet & greet, as well as the chance to hear her discuss her new book; Saints for All Occasions J. Courtney Sullivan is The New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Engagements, Maine, and Commencement. Maine was named a 2011 Time Magazine Best Boo... [click here for more]

J. Courtney Sullivan, saints for all occasions

Tuesday August 14, 2018 07:00 PM EDT 08/14/2018 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $10,

Join author J. Courtney Sulivan for a meet & greet and chance to hear her discuss her new book, Saints for All Occasions. J. Courtney Sullivan is The New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Engagements, Maine, and Commencement. Maine was named a 2011 Time Magazine Best Book of the Year a... [click here for more]

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Julie Hedgepeth Williams, Three Not-So-Ordinary-Joes: A Plantation Newspaperman, a Printer's Devil, an English Wit, and the Founding of Southern Literature

Tuesday July 24, 2018 07:00 PM EDT 07/24/2018 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $10-$15,

One of the more eccentric figures in the antebellum South was Joseph Addison Turner, born to the plantation and trained to run one. All he really wanted to do, though, was to be a famous writer- and to be the founder of Southern literature. [click here for more]

Speaking of Making: Louisiana Bendolph in Conversation with Virginia Prescott, joined by Matt Arnett and Lonnie Holley

Wednesday July 18, 2018 07:30 PM EDT 07/18/2018 7:30 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $7-$10,

Presented by AIR Serenbe, in partnership with Atlanta History Center and Grocery on Home. Join On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott in conversation with Louisiana Bendolph, Matt Arnett, and Lonnie Holley, as they discuss Bendolph’s dynamic art, Southern African American artmaking traditions, and... [click here for more]

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Aiken Lecture: Ethan Kytle and Blain Roberts, Denmark Vesey's Garden

Tuesday June 26, 2018 07:00 PM EDT 06/26/2018 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $10-$15,

A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flaure-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina. [click here for more]

Hannah Pittard, Visible Empire

Tuesday June 5, 2018 07:00 PM EDT 06/05/2018 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $10-$15,

An epic novel-based on true events- of love, grief, race, and wealth, charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged. On a humid summer day, the phones began to ring: disaster has struck. Chateau de Sully, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of At... [click here for more]

Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-Ups: A Midlife Coming of Age Story

Sunday June 3, 2018 05:00 PM EDT 06/03/2018 5:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $10-$15,

The bestselling author of BRINGING UP BEBE investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face. When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a new message in mens' gazes. Yet forty isn't even technically middle-age... [click here for more]

Paula McLain, Love and Ruin

Wednesday May 16, 2018 07:00 PM EDT 05/16/2018 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $5-$10,

The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn- a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century. [click here for more]

An Evening with Eve Ewing, Sarah Kay, Amanda Torres & Mahogany L. Browne

Sunday April 29, 2018 07:00 PM EDT 04/29/2018 7:00 PM

Margaret Mitchell House Cost: $15-$25,

AIR Serenbe presents, in partnership with Atlanta History Center, four of the nation's top spoken word poets for ONE NIGHT ONLY in Atlanta. Sarah Kay, Mahogany L. Browne, Eve Ewing, and Amanda Torres will be in Georgia as part of the SWACC! Focus Fellowship at AIR Serenbe. SWACC! is an award residen... [click here for more]

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