A general survey of Tennessee history from the earliest settlements to the present.
G. Wayne Dowdy, longtime archivist for the Memphis Public Library, examines the history and culture of the Mid-South during its most important decades.
This is the definitive history of this railroad, well researched, and well written.
T. Harry Williams . P.G.T. Beauregard , Napoleon in Gray . Baton Rouge , 1955 . John Allen Wyeth . That Devil Forrest : Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest . 2nd ed . , New York , 1959 . Tennessee Three Star Books Visions of Utopia ...
Learn about John Proctor who lived in Jamestown, VA and his wife who fought off the indians by herself. There is the story of another John Proctor who was the first male accused of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials. He was hung in 1692.
This is the story of Americas first western frontier, when brave men and women crossed the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains to find better lives for themselves and their families.
The Hidden History of McMinn County is the first-ever collection of articles from the popular regional newspaper column of historian Joe Guy.
The story begins when Kate first entered the home of John Bell, in 1817, and continues to the present day.
To encourage industry and promote city expansion in the 1920s, the Franklin Kiwanis Club proclaimed its city Tennessee's Handsomest Town.
Joseph E. Johnston's defenses by running his army by water down the Chesapeake Bay to Urbanna on the Rappahannock River , only forty - five miles from Richmond , and attack the city from there . Johnston , informed of the plan ...