Ties that Bind tells the story of Shoe Boots, a Cherokee warrior and farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late [...]
Memphis begins in 1995, when narrator Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee domestic violence and return to the family home in Memphis. [...]
The Hawk's Done Gone collects a series of stories narrated by Mary Dorthula White, a granny woman. Set in East Tennessee from the Civil [...]
Loretta Lynn recorded the song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in 1971. Her autobiography of the same name followed in 1976 and the movie in 1980. [...]
During the period between 1000 and 1425 CE, a thriving indigenous culture, the Middle Cumberland Mississippians, lived along the Cumberland River. Public spaces stretched [...]
In 1976, the case Victoria Cape v. the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association changed how girls played basketball. Cape, a junior at Oak Ridge [...]
Georgia Tann, the executive secretary of the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, began trafficking children in 1924. Tann operated a black-market [...]
Published in 1962, The Tall Woman tells the story of Lydia Moore McQueen and her East Tennessee community. Lydia marries shortly before the Civil [...]
