Tennessee History Day and STEM Topics
thsadmin2025-01-06T11:15:02-06:00Part of what makes creating an NHD project so enjoyable is the ability to incorporate your personal interests such as art, cinema, or [...]
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01, 2025
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06, 2022
Sumer is Icumen In
thsadmin2022-08-17T16:12:11-06:00As Tennesseans celebrate summer, who can resist the call of what is arguably the oldest song for round singing in the English language, “The [...]
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02, 2022
“Dear Mrs. Bruce”
thsadmin2022-02-07T11:53:55-06:00Q: I simply cannot fit into Nashville society. I try but I can't seem to say the right thing. I am from New Hampshire [...]
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02, 2022
Child Passenger Protection Act of 1977: How Tennessee “Immunized” the Automobile Epidemic
thsadmin2022-02-06T17:26:38-06:00Throughout the United States, every state has a variation of a law mandating that infants and young children be fastened in a car seat [...]
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12, 2021
College Football and When Vanderbilt Ruled the South
thsadmin2021-12-30T09:30:26-06:00The 1904 Vanderbilt team. Fielding Yost, From Football for Player and Spectator (Ann Arbor, MI: University Publishing Co., 1905), p. 71. Since [...]
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02, 2021
Ida B. Wells’ International Appeal: The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
thsadmin2021-02-04T10:42:47-06:00Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1897 The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he [...]
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04, 2019
Blackberry Winter & Other Tennessee Little Winters
thsadmin2020-11-14T10:35:12-06:00Blackberry winter waits just around the corner, at the end of April. How do we know? Swelling flower buds on the wild canes in [...]
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04, 2019
Beale Street, Hotel Clark, and The Green-Book
thsadmin2020-11-14T10:37:54-06:00Beale Street in Memphis thrived in the shadow of Jim Crow from the 1890s to 1960s, one of many such districts in cities across [...]
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03, 2019
Old Hickory, Gunpowder, and Lou Cretia Owen
thsadmin2020-11-14T10:34:21-06:00On January 29, 1918, E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Company and the U.S. government embarked on building a massive factory and town along Hadley’s [...]
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12, 2018
Christmas Time on the Angel Farm
thsadmin2020-11-14T13:11:54-06:00“My memories of the week before Christmas are dashing into the house, after hiking from school, to smell the sweet fragrance of Christmas cooking…,” [...]
