Tracing the story of Southeastern Conference (SEC) fight songs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, author Carrie Allen Tipton places this [...]
On May 24, 1968, prominent Chevrolet dealer and self-made millionaire W. Haynie Gourley was murdered. The exhaustive manhunt, police investigation, and trial mesmerized the [...]
A Summons to Memphis follows narrator Phillip Carver’s return to the South from his life in Manhattan. Phillip’s two sisters have demanded his presence; [...]
During the hundred years of racial segregation that followed the Civil War, African Americans built a strong network of entertainment spaces to support the [...]
The Tennessee music box, or box dulcimer, is one of the most enigmatic musical instruments ever discovered. Little is known about its origins, but [...]
What did it mean for Confederates to sing patriotic music during the American Civil War? This talk draws on evidence of sixty cases of [...]
From its roots in West Africa and early American militia drumming to its prominence in African American communities during the time of Reconstruction, fife [...]
We invite you to attend the 174th Annual Membership Meeting of the Tennessee Historical Society. Following our business meeting, Dr. Shawn Pitts will speak [...]
Nashville dance bandleader Francis Craig (1900–1966) cultivated a regional and national audience from the 1920s through the 1940s via broadcasts on WSM radio, a [...]
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have made indelible, but underappreciated, contributions to the Tennessee musical landscape for over one hundred years. In this [...]
