This collection contains video and audiotaped interviews, transcripts, correspondence, research files, and other materials pertaining to the Georgia's Political Heritage Program.

Audio and motion picture oral history interviews with prominent current and former Georgia political figures representing political history since World War II which were conducted as part of the Georgia's Political Heritage Program (GPHP). The GPHP was founded in 1984 by Dr. Mel Steely, Professor Emeritus of the UWG History Department, to capture the memory of Georgia's political leaders as they relate their roles in the context of state and national politics. Interviewees discuss their involvement and activities within Georgia, regional, and national politics, touching on subjects from segregation and civil rights to the Vietnam War, as well as issues specific to Georgia.

The 2019 Additions series contains lists of the interviews and time stamp documents for many of the interviews conducted. Such interviews include Governors Ellis Arnall, George Busbee, and Lester Maddox; President Jimmy Carter; Senator David Gambrell; and Congressmen Howard Callaway and Jack Flynt, among others. There are also working documents for running GPHP, letters requesting future interviews with Georgia’s political leaders, Georgia Churchill Society and Carroll County Historical Society documents, and Mel Steely’s personal file of thank you notes.