“Tribute to Judge John B. Getz” | John Harkins |
Articles: | |
“Memphians Will Do Their Duty: A Tennessee City During World War II” | G. Wayne Dowdy |
“Troublous Times: The Civil War Letters of William J. Armstrong, M.D., March 1863-September 1864” | Richard Nollan |
“Loyalty A Requisite: Trade and the Oath of Allegiance in the Mid-South in 1865” | Patrick W. O’Daniel |
“The Kennedy Book Club” | Janice Reagan |
Notes and Documents: | |
“West Tennessee U.S. Colored Troops and the Retreat from Brice’s Crossroads: An Eyewitness Account by Major James C. Foster (USA)” | Bjorn Skaptason, ed. |
Book Reviews: | |
Ashmore, A Chronicle of Law Enforcement in the South: The History of the Jackson, Tennessee, Police Department | reviewed by John Dougan |
Book Reviews: | |
Ashmore, A Chronicle of Law Enforcement in the South: The History of the Jackson, Tennessee, Police Department | reviewed by John Dougan |
Book Reviews: | |
Ashmore, A Chronicle of Law Enforcement in the South: The History of the Jackson, Tennessee, Police Department | reviewed by John Dougan |
Bishop, The Tennessee Brigade: A History of the Volunteers of the Army of Northern Virginia | reviewed by Nathan K. Moran |
Bradley, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Escort and Staff | reviewed by Derek W. Frisby |
Vandiver, Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Executions in the South | reviewed by John Dougan |
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“Did He Measure Up?: An Analytic Appraisal of the Supreme Court Career of Justice Abe Fortas” | Justin Braun |
“Slavery, Plantation Life, and Debt in Tennessee and Mississippi: The Example of Andrew Jackson Donelson” | Mark R. Cheathem |
“The Struggle for Public Health in Civil War Tennessee Cities” | James B. Jones, Jr. |
“Conceiving Happiness: Frances Wright and the Nashoba Experiment” | Lauren Elizabeth Nickas |
Notes and Documents: | |
“The Racial Demographics of West Tennessee: An Essay Based on U.S. Census Data, 1830-2000” | Richard L. Saunders |
Book Reviews: | |
Green, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle | reviewed by Richard L. Saunders |
Articles: | |
“From Atelier to MFA (Then On To The Atelier): A Short History of Art Education in Memphis, Tennessee” | Douglas W. Cupples |
“A Bend in the River: An Investigation of Black Agency, Autonomy, and Resistance in Memphis, Tennessee (1846-1866)” | George Graham Perry, III |
“We Didn’t Reject the System, the System Rejected Us: The SDS Failure to Obtain a Charter at Memphis State University, 1968-1970” | Jack Lorenzini |
“The Extrication of General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Command from West Tennessee, 25 December 1862 – 1 January 1863” | Joshua Adam Camper |
Book Reviews: | |
Maness, Lightening Warfare: Forrest’s First West Tennessee Campaign – December 1862 | reviewed by Timothy B. Smith |
Harkins, Historic Shelby County: An Illustrated History | reviewed by Edward F. Williams, III |
Articles: | |
“The Reign of Terror of the Safety Committee Has Passed Away Forever: A History of Committees of Safety and Vigilance in West and Middle Tennessee, 1860-1862” | James B. Jones, Jr. |
“You Know That I’m Getting Tired of Sleeping by Myself: The Influence of Blues Legend Willie Lee Brown” | T. DeWayne Moore |
“James F. Estes: Grassroots Advocate” | Richard L. Saunders |
“War Comes to Iron Country: Middle Tennessee’s Defense Industry During the Civil War” | Michael Thomas Gavin |
Book Reviews: | |
Baggett, Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee’s Union Cavalry in the Civil War | reviewed by Paul Richard White |
Boylston and Wiener, David Crockett in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Poor Man’s Friend | reviewed by Derek W. Frisby |
Durham, The State of State History in Tennessee in 2008: The Underground Railroad in Tennessee to 1865 | reviewed by John E. Harkins |
Articles: | |
“Benjamin Fooy: The Original Memphian” | Jon T. Fox |
“Colonel Edward Ward: The Life and Death of a Tennessee Senator” | Rita Hall |
“An Ordinary Family’s Changing Lifestyle” | Verne Laughter |
Notes and Documents: | |
“Excerpts from the Diary of Stith Nelson, an early Memphian” | |
“Ned and Rose Kearney: My Dear Friends” | John B. McKinney |
Book Reviews: | |
McCalla, Glover, Billingsley and Rhodes, eds., An Illustrated History of the People and Towns of Northeast Shelby County and South Central Tipton County: Salem, Portersville, Idaville, Kerrville, Armourtown, Bethel, Tipton, Mudville, Macedonia, Gratitude, Barrettville, and Rosemark, Tennessee | reviewed by John Harkins |
Dattel, Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power | reviewed by Michael Jones |
Dowdy, Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South | reviewed by Ed Frank |
O’Daniel, Memphis and the Super Flood of 1937 | reviewed by G. Wayne Dowdy |
Heller, Democracy’s Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest | reviewed by Edward F. Williams, III |
Patton, A Guide to Historic Downtown Memphis | reviewed by Jimmy Ogle |
Editor’s Note: | |
The State of Local History | Vincent L. Clark |
Articles: | |
“The Beginning of the University of Memphis” | James R. Chumney |
“How LeMoyne College Got Its First African-American President” | George F. Bagby |
“Cotton Bolls and Wedding Bells: Making the Memphis Movie of 1915” | John T. Dulaney |
“The Pageantry of Segregation: The Socio-Cultural Impact of the Cotton Makers’ Jubilee” | Cynthia Jones Sadler |
Notes and Documents: | |
“I Remember Highland” | Robert Lanier |
“American Press Reaction to the 1956 Vice Presidential Nomination of Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee” | Philip Grant |
Museum Review: | |
The Tipton County Museum, Veterans Memorial and Nature Center | Vincent L. Clark |
Documentary Review: | |
Daniel Kiel, director, The Memphis 13 | Willy Bearden |
Book Reviews: | |
Amy L. Sayward and Margaret Vandiver, eds., Tennessee’s New Abolitionists: The Fight to End the Death Penalty in the Volunteer State | reviewed by Angela Laughlin Brown |
John E. Harkins, Memphis Chronicles: Bits of History from the Best Times | reviewed by G. Wayne Dowdy |
Mike Freeman, Clarence Saunders and the Founding of Piggly Wiggly: The Rise & Fall of a Memphis Maverick | reviewed by John E. Harkins |
G. Wayne Dowdy, Hidden History of Memphis | reviewed by Charles W. Crawford |
David Yawn and Darrell Uselton, From the Ground Up: A Lifelong Journey in Reinventing Yourself. The Biography of Brian Pecon | reviewed by Edward F. Williams, III |
Laura Cunningham, Lost Memphis | reviewed by Vincent L. Clark |
Editor’s Note: | |
The State of Local History | Vincent L. Clark |
Articles: | |
“General Don Carlos Buell and the Shiloh Campaign” | James R. Chumney |
“The Memphis Legal Community Under Federal Occupation, 1860-1870” | Robert Lanier |
“Robert V. Richardson and the First Tennessee Regiment of Partisan Rangers” | George C. Browder |
“Lone Confederate Monument – A Symbol of Reconciliation” | Linda J. Higgins and Charles W. Cox, M.D. |
Notes and Documents: | |
“Diary of Lemuel Alexander Scarbrough, Sr.” | Edited by Lemuel Alexander Scarbrough, Jr. (IV) |
Museum Review: | |
Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center | Ashley Foley Dabbraccio |
Documentary Review: | |
Ric Burns, director, Death and the Civil War |
Micki Kaleta |
Website Review: | |
The Tennessee Virtual Archive |
Sarah Frierson |
Book Reviews: | |
Sam Davis Elliott, Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator | reviewed by Timothy S. Huebner |
Walter T. Durham, The State of State History in Tennessee in 2012: Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury and Tennessee | reviewed by John E. Harkins |
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | reviewed by Andrew C. Smith |
Jim Downs, Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction | reviewed by David Cook |
James M. McPherson, War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 | reviewed by Jenny Jobe DeMilio |
Patricia Kaufmann, Francis Crown, Jr., and Jerry Plazolo, eds., Confederate States of America Catalog and Handbook of Stamps and Postal History | reviewed by Vincent L. Clark |
Editor’s Note: | |
The State of Local History | Vincent L. Clark |
Articles: | |
“The ‘Lean Jimmy’ Years: Politics, Race Relations and Railroads in Tennessee, 1829 to 1859” | Rita Hiltenbrand Hall |
“Confederate General George Washington Gordon and the Ku Klux Klan” | Mark R. Cheathem and Emily J. Taylor |
“Building the Memphis Museum, 1926-1930” | Caroline Mitchell Carrico |
“‘Our Forest Home:’ Editor Edward Meeman’s Crusade for Shelby Forest, 1933-35” | Dale E. Zacher |
Notes and Documents: | |
Miss Emma’s School | Louise Wilbourn Collier |
“I Am Tired of Marching:” The Civil War Diary of Corporal William D. Holmes | |
Museum Review: | |
Becoming the Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812 – traveling exhibit | Linda J. Higgins |
Documentary Review: | |
Chris Wheeler, Producer, Civil War: the Untold Story |
Jenny DeMilio |
Website Review: | |
Tennessee Roots | William P. Kelley |
Book Reviews: | |
Mark Renfred Cheathem, Andrew Jackson, Southerner | reviewed by Doug Cupples |
James A. Patterson, James Robinson Graves: Staking the Boundaries of Baptist Identity | reviewed by Andrew C. Smith |
Joshua Rothman, Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson | reviewed by Micki Kaleta |
Vincent Astor, Memphis Movie Theatres | reviewed by Mike Freeman |
Jeanette Keith, Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City | reviewed by Vincent L. Clark |