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James Jones is a public historian for the Tennessee Historical Commission and State Historic Preservation Office. He began collecting little known and unknown historic narratives "one entry at a time" at the library during his lunch hours. As his database grew, so did his appetite for the curious and colorful events that comprise Tennessee's past. Before he knew it, a full-length book emerged and the rest of us can benefit from over four years of his "lunch time" research. Maintaining the calendar form, Every Day In Tennessee History features multiple entries on each day in the calendar year, generously illustrated with archival photographs. While many of the entries deal with famous personalities and events, the majority found their way into the collection because they were not famous or well-known, including Ida B. Wells' account of her first baseball game, the nuptials of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, the completion of a hydroelectric dam, the closing of a red-light district, and hundreds more diverse and fascinating historical "tidbits".
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Today in history
- 1607, The Settlement Of Jamestown. By Captain John Smith
- 1607, Early Virginia 1607-1619
- 1830, Zebulon Baird Vance
- 1844, LIFE PRESERVING COFFIN
- 1846, Mississippi and the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848. By Sam Olden
- 1859, GILBERT HUNT, The City Blacksmith. By Philip Barret
- 1861, Prospects of Enfield rifle Manufacturing in Nashville
- 1861, Rumors of slave rebellion in Bradley County
- 1862, 13, Correspondence from Col. J. G. Parkhurst to Military Governor Andrew Johnson relative to the arrest of prominent citizens in Murfreesboro
- 1862, An entry from the Kate Carney Diary
- 1863, Letter from G. J. Balthrop [CSA] to his father and mother in Montgomery County
- 1864, Skirmish Pulaski
- 1864, "A Female Soldier Boy"
- 1864, No Yankees
- 1864, On Sherman’s path in East Tennessee in December 1863
- 1865, Surrender terms for Confederate soldiers of McNairy County
- 1867, Report of Outrages Committed by Whites on Freedmen in the Memphis Sub District, Bureau R. F. A. L. For the month of May 1867
- 1897, The Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. By Carroll Van West
- 1914, Bootleg still found at Glade Creek
- 2003, Politics in the Union Army at the Battle for Chattanooga Pt. II
20 Most Read Articles
- The Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, In the Years 1675 and 1676. Printed by Peter Force. 1835 (7276 reads)
- RALEIGH'S FIRST, OR "THE LOST," COLONY. 1585-86 (6253 reads)
- Historians and the extent of slave ownership in the Southern United States. By Otto H. Olsen (5567 reads)
- Susquehanna Indian Tribe History (5219 reads)
- African Americans in West Kentucky and West Tennessee during the Civil War: The Fourth U.S. Heavy Artillery Colored. By William H. Mulligan, Jr. (4893 reads)
- Social Control, Social Displacement and Coal Mining in the Cumberland Plateau, 1880-1930. By James B. Jones, Jr. (4618 reads)
- Deterioration of a Gentleman’s Sport: The Criminalization of Cockfighting. (4286 reads)
- COAHUILTECAN INDIANS. (4150 reads)
- Stono Slave Rebellion, September 9, 1739 (3798 reads)
- WE CHALLENGED JIM CROW. By Bayard Rustin and George Houser (3108 reads)
- Thomas Jefferson and historical self-construction: the earth belongs to the living? By Robert M.S. McDonald (2885 reads)
- History in towns: Chestertown Maryland. by Gloria Seaman Allen (2883 reads)
- Sewanee: How to Make a Yankee Southern: Memories of the 1940s. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2869 reads)
- Prostitution in Texas. By David C. Humphrey (2855 reads)
- The British Surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, by Joseph Plumb Martin. (2673 reads)
- Rural Southern Women, The Family Economy, and Economic Change. By Melissa Walker (2637 reads)
- Julia Chinn. Slave Mistress (2624 reads)
- Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism: a new look at an old question. By James M. McPherson (2511 reads)
- The other side of the "Dynamo of Dixie":Class Consciousness and Worker Solidarity in Urban Tennessee: The Chattanooga Carmen’s Strikes of 1899-1917. By James B. Jones, Jr. (2453 reads)
- English Trade in Deerskins and Indian Slaves. By Robbie Ethridge (1918 reads)
Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 04:21 AM Loyalty and Ice in Memphis
Posted by: James
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 01:09 PM “A Wild Man"
Posted by: James
Note: "'What is it?'"
(18 Reads)
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 04:00 AM MTX 44344 in the Old South
Posted by: James
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 03:47 AM Florida Water
Posted by: James
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 03:30 AM William Tylee Ranney. By Liinda Ayres
Posted by: James
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 03:11 AM THE GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS IN PETERSBURG VIRGINIA.
Posted by: James
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 03:01 AM DIARY. JULIA JOHNSON FISHER
Posted by: James
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 01:36 AM A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison. By Paul Jennings.
Posted by: James
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Friday, April 18, 2008 - 09:09 PM "...the brutal murder of my brother, Maj. Edgar Boroughs, by a negro sentinel...."
Posted by: James
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 08:04 PM The Tupelo Homesteads: New Deal Agrarian Experimentation. By Fred C. Smith
Posted by: James
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