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Author : Wilma Dykeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Tennessee
ISBN : 0393055558
Author : Anne Klebenow
Publisher : University of Tennessee Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0964221969
This book, published in commemoration of Tennessee's two hundred years of statehood, brings together two hundred stories about the influential figures, both the famous and the not so famous, who have marched across the state's history. This project began in 1986 when then-Governor Lamar Alexander asked Alex Haley, the celebrated author of Roots, to produce a special volume for the state bicentennial at the University of Tennessee. Although Haley died while the work was in progress, the now completed book reflects his love of the human-interest story as an effective way of capturing the drama and wonder of history. Ranging from the frontier era through the late twentieth century and covering all parts of the state, 200 Years through 200 Stories brings to life a host of colorful figures: Nancy Ward (Nan-ye-i), the "Beloved Woman of the Cherokee" who sought to promote harmony between her people and the early white settlers; Davy Crockett, the legendary frontiersman and political hero; Confederate Captain Spencer Talley, a participant in the bloody fighting at Stones River; Hanson Caruthers, a black slave who donned the Union blue and fought for his freedom; Estes Kefauver, the maverick U.S. senator who took on corporations, organized crime, and even President Truman; and Alex Stewart, a master Appalachian craftsman whose marvelous skills won him the Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Their stories and those of the many others who fill this volume enable the reader to grasp the larger historical developments -- settlement and statehood, Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of industry and technology -- that have shaped Tennessee's history and the livesof its people. In addition to the two hundred stories focusing on individuals, the book includes several overview essays that summarize pivotal events during the key phases of the state's history. The result is a book that will delight anyone who loves Tennessee and its rich and varied heritage.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN : UOM:39015027007494
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
ISBN : IND:30000098611548
Author : Pellissippi Genealogical and Historical Society (Clinton, Tenn.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Anderson County (Tenn.)
ISBN : LCCN:2009459308
Author : Kem G. Hinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1577360281
Though most Tennesseans first heard of the Tennessee Bicentennial Capitol Mall during the year of its celebration, the path of its creation is almost as old as the state itself. From details of the first settlement on the site of the Mall to descriptions of items still to come, Kem Hinton tells the story of this vital Nashville area through historical pictures and commentary.
Author : Gary Alden Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476604343
With the exception of oceans, boundaries are artificial, man-made divisions of geography that many times make little sense and sometimes no sense at all. For example, why does the northern boundary of Minnesota protrude into Canada? Why does West Virginia have two panhandles? Why do Pennsylvania and Delaware have a common boundary that is a circle segment? Why do the boundaries of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah consist entirely of lines of latitude and longitude? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book, which explains why and how state boundaries are placed where they are. It begins with an introduction that provides general information about boundary placement, colonial boundaries, formation of territories, surveying and Supreme Court rulings. The 50 states are divided into ten regions (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Upper South, Lower South, Great Lakes, North Central, South Central, Rocky Mountain, West, and Noncontiguous). The text for each state begins with an overview of that state’s boundaries that becomes more specific as its different boundaries are considered. The appendices include interesting facts about each state, citizen and state nicknames, and dates territories were created and states entered the Union. Richly illustrated with 138 maps.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976..
ISBN : PURD:32754062028646
Author : Robert Maddex
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452267371
Newly updated and reflecting the diversity of state policies and the issues that are important to them, State Constitutions of the United States collects, explains, and offers comparison of each of the fifty state constitutions. Its in-depth explorations and easy-to-follow structure reveal individual state priorities, the significance of state constitutions and their impact on issues that affect the day-to-day lives of citizens. This major revision incorporates specific details and describes trends and patterns in state constitutions, drawing on over 380 amendments passed since the first edition of this resource was published in 1998. These amendments address, at the state level, important issues that are also being debated on the national level, such as freedom of religion (Alabama), tobacco (Arizona), death penalty (Florida), and same-sex marriage in a number of states. The new edition addresses all of these issues and more, in well-organized state-by-state chapters-including a new chapter on Washington, DC. Beyond the extensive state-by-state coverage, this resource provides further insights through supplemental materials, including an overview of state constitutions, comparative tables, "new rights" such as privacy and victim's rights, "special provisions" such as the environment and home rule, and much more. This is the only one-volume resource on state constitutions designed to inform non-specialists, including students, non-constitutional scholars, and interested citizens, about the variety, influence, and continual revision and innovation that define state constitutions in the U.S. A wide range of libraries, including those that serve college students, AP high school students, and the general public, will want to update their collections with this unique and essential reference work.
Author : James A. Crutchfield,Rick Warwick,Robert Holladay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1577361474
To encourage industry and promote city expansion in the 1920s, the Franklin Kiwanis Club proclaimed its city Tennessee's Handsomest Town. As this fashionable moniker suggests, the city of Franklin, Tennessee, was and still is justifiably proud of its award-winning Main Street, picturesque rolling hills, and stately antebellum mansions. But the real history of Franklin and its people encompasses much more. Prehistoric mastodon hunters. Native American villages. Civil War battles. Floods. Urban sprawl. Political squabbles. Industrialization. And historic preservation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113217199
A regional studies review.
Author : Richard Stewart Kirkendall
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 0826215602
This interpretation of Missouri's history from the end of World War I until the return of Harry Truman to the state after his presidency describes the turbulent political, economic, and social changes experienced by Missouri's people during those years.
Author : Andrew Paxman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190455767
In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country energized by industrialization and revolutionary change. In Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman presents the first biography of this larger-than-life personality. When the decade-long Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910, Jenkins preyed on patrician property owners and bought up substantial real estate. He suffered a scare with a firing squad and then a kidnapping by rebels, an episode that almost triggered a US invasion. After the war he owned textile mills, developed Mexico's most productive sugar plantation, and helped finance the rise of a major political family, the Ávila Camachos. During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s-50s, he lorded over the film industry with his movie theater monopoly and key role in production. By means of Mexico's first major hostile takeover, he bought the country's second-largest bank. Reputed as an exploiter of workers, a puppet-master of politicians, and Mexico's wealthiest industrialist, Jenkins was the gringo that Mexicans loved to loathe. After his wife's death, he embraced philanthropy and willed his entire fortune to a foundation named for her, which co-founded two prestigious universities and funded projects to improve the lives of the poor in his adopted country. Using interviews with Jenkins' descendants, family papers, and archives in Puebla, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Washington, Jenkins of Mexico tells a contradictory tale of entrepreneurship and monopoly, fearless individualism and cozy deals with power-brokers, embrace of US-style capitalism and political anti-Americanism, and Mexico's transformation from semi-feudal society to emerging economic power.
Author : Donald P. Haider-Markel
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780872893771
Providing expert analysis of government and politics in all 50 states and the U.S. territories, this innovative two-volume reference fills the critical need for information and analysis of the roles and functions of state government through accessible state-by-state and regional overviews of government and politics.
Author : Peter Krass
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780471273929
The first-ever biography of the man who created America's most famous whiskey Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St. Louis World's Fair and the Liege International Exposition in Belgium. Blood and Whiskey captures Daniel's indomitable rise in the rough-edged world of the nineteenth-century whiskey trade-and shows how his commitment to quality (his whiskey was always charcoal-filtered) and his flair for marketing and packaging (he launched his distinctive square bottle in 189-5) helped create one of America's most venerable and recognizable brands.
