The 1904 Vanderbilt team. Fielding Yost, From Football for Player and Spectator (Ann Arbor, MI: University Publishing Co., 1905), p. 71. Since [...]
"If I die you will know that I died as every man should—in fighting for the right. I do not consider that I am [...]
"Je réclame Memphis pour la France" -- what he might have said. Howard Pyle. “La Salle Christening the Country ‘Louisiana’.” Painting. The Athenaeum. In [...]
In December 1970, two Jims arrived in Clarksville. James “Jim” Mulherin and James “Jim” Hawley were organizers for Save Our Soldiers, a San Francisco-based [...]
1796: The Digital Journal of the Tennessee Historical Society What makes Tennessee “Tennessee”? Welcome to the new website of the Tennessee Historical [...]
The Civil War divided Tennessee just as it did the nation. When the state first voted on secession in February 1861, Tennesseeans rejected leaving [...]
While the Nashville Sit-ins of 1960 and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis in 1968 often receive attention, Tennessee’s civil rights [...]
The state of Tennessee is divided into three sections called the Grand Divisions, and people commonly refer to themselves as being from East, Middle, [...]
Tennessee Music The roots of popular music may be found in every pocket of the southeastern United States, but Tennessee has been, and remains, [...]
Andrew Jackson Artist’s sketch for the 1940 New Deal mural in the John Sevier State Office Building. Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 [...]
