Blackberry Winter & Other Tennessee Little Winters
thsadmin2020-11-14T10:35:12-06:00Blackberry winter waits just around the corner, at the end of April. How do we know? Swelling flower buds on the wild canes in [...]
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04, 2019
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04, 2019
Beale Street, Hotel Clark, and The Green-Book
thsadmin2020-11-14T10:37:54-06:00Beale Street in Memphis thrived in the shadow of Jim Crow from the 1890s to 1960s, one of many such districts in cities across [...]
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03, 2019
Old Hickory, Gunpowder, and Lou Cretia Owen
thsadmin2020-11-14T10:34:21-06:00On January 29, 1918, E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Company and the U.S. government embarked on building a massive factory and town along Hadley’s [...]
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12, 2018
Christmas Time on the Angel Farm
thsadmin2020-11-14T13:11:54-06:00“My memories of the week before Christmas are dashing into the house, after hiking from school, to smell the sweet fragrance of Christmas cooking…,” [...]
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09, 2018
Eliza Allen’s Guitar, 1820s
thsadmin2020-11-15T07:26:03-06:00This guitar belonged to Eliza Allen (1809-1861) of Sumner County, the forlorn bride of Sam Houston. A prized item in the Tennessee Historical Society’s [...]
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09, 2018
Sam Houston and Eliza Allen: “Ten Thousand Imputed Slanders”
thsadmin2020-11-14T13:27:34-06:00On April 11, 1829, Sam Houston and his bride of eleven weeks, Eliza Allen, abruptly ended their marriage. Neither would speak publicly of the [...]
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08, 2018
The Eighth of August: Emancipation Day in Tennessee
thsadmin2020-11-15T07:42:17-06:00“Today is not Friday the thirteenth,” read the August 8, 1941 issue of Clarksville’s Leaf-Chronicle, “but Friday the ‘eighth of August’ which is almost [...]
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02, 2018
De Soto in East Tennessee, May-June 1540
thsadmin2020-11-14T13:51:26-06:00Hernando de Soto and his private army emerged from the dense forest of the Blue Ridge at the end of May in 1540, and [...]
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01, 2018
General Andrew Jackson, 1818
thsadmin2020-11-15T07:22:52-06:00The Tennessee Historical Society’s collections originated in 1818 when artist Ralph E.W. Earl founded the Nashville Museum. The museum exhibited oddities like the 14’ [...]
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01, 2018
Enslaved Soldiers and the Battle of New Orleans
thsadmin2020-11-14T13:55:09-06:00In January 1815, shortly after leading the defeat of Lieutenant General Sir Edward Pakenham and British forces at New Orleans in the War of [...]
