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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". |
Today in history
- 1861, A Cure for Diarrhoea
- 1861, Report to the Southern Mothers’ Association Executive Committee.
- 1861, President of the Memphis to Charleston Railroad to Confederate Secretary of War relative to dearth of military leadership in Memphis
- 1862, Statements of East Tennessee Unionists taken prisoner as Confederates seeking removal from Federal prison at Camp Chase, Ohio
- 1862, "They could not get a permit to have a funeral preached." An entry from the Kate Carney Diary
- 1862, General Orders No. 60 relative to suppression of guerrilla warfare in West Tennessee
- 1862, SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 148, relative to maintaining Federal control of railroads in West Tennessee
- 1863, “I know him to be a confirmed libertine which I despise in a man.”
- 1863, "A persistent and studied avoidance of hasty action has marked its proceedings so far, and is likely to prove an important feature of its action." Third Day of the Union State Convention
- 1863, "A splendid library and all thrown topsy-turvy - apparatus broken, charts and maps strewed about and trampled on." The remains of Union University in Murfreesboro
- 1863, The House that Jeff Built
- 1863, THE HOUSE THAT JEFF BUILT. July 3, 1863
- 1864, “CLEANING THE STREETS, ETC.”
- 1864, Skirmish near La Grange
- 1865, Lifting of martial law in Memphis
- 1885, "The women are not allowed upon the streets after 7 o'clock p.m.." Memphis streetwalkers and coach riders
- 1893, Mississippi John Hurt
- 1972, Biography of "Mississippi" Fred McDowell
- 1994, AUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL. By Robert J Booker
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Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 03:57 AM Slim Jim factory blast caused by gas leak
Posted by: James
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Monday, June 15, 2009 - 02:06 PM Frank D. Howard, Florida Hurricanes
Posted by: James
(56 Reads)
Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 03:16 PM Memorial Day, Nashville, May 30, 1944
Posted by: James
Note: "...while Rabbi Bernard J. Starkoff pronounced the benediction six bombers from Smyrna Army Air Field flew over, dropping flowers into the court."
(134 Reads)
Monday, May 11, 2009 - 02:10 PM A. G. Brown's Account of the Burning of the Belfry, August 11, 1856
Posted by: James
Note: "...the belfry was enveloped in flames and nothing could avail to save it."
(99 Reads)
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 06:40 PM Taking “Gnashville;” the letter of the Vanity Fair war correspondent
Posted by: James
(271 Reads)
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 04:32 AM German POW & Mississippi Plantation Owner's Wife Run to Nashville
Posted by: James
(456 Reads)
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 04:58 AM History Articles: Nashville Sailor Sees ‘Plenty’ During Five Years In Pacific
Posted by: James
(382 Reads)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 04:41 PM History Articles: The Political Career of John Sharp Williams. By Thomas N. Boschert
Posted by: James
Note: "Like other Mississippi politicians, Williams believed in white supremacy, but he never exploited the race issue for political gain."
(439 Reads)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 04:21 PM Keep the Home Fires Burning: Florida's World War II Experience. By Dr. David J. Coles
Posted by: James
Note: "It can be argued that World War II marked the coming of age of Florida as a modern, influential state."
(522 Reads)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 04:12 PM The Founding of Maryland. By John T. Marck
Posted by: James
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