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This important new history chronicles the formation of Tennessee from indigenous settlers to the end of the end of the frontier in 1840, signaled by the removal of the Cherokee along the "trail of tears." Two major themes emerge in the book: "access to opportunity," the belief of frontier people that North America offered unique opportunities for social and economic advancement; and the continuing tension between local autonomy and central authority, marked by the resistance of frontier people to the imposition of outside controls, even as they expected government to provide such assistance as acquiring land from Indians or foreign nations, providing military protection, or constructing internal improvements.

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How many state songs does Tennessee have? How is Tennessee’s state government organized? Why is Great Smoky Mountain National Park the most popular park in the United States? You can find the answers to these questions in Uniquely Tennessee. This book cont

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4144 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Middle Tennessee State University's Center for Popular Music was established on Jul 1, 1985 as an interdisciplinary Center of Excellence in Music Archives and Research. The thrust of the Center's efforts in collecting materials related to popular music is to capture an overall view of popular music in the US. By the end of 1997, the Center had amassed 96,000 sound recordings, 56,000 sheets of music, 14,600 books, 7,000 special collection items and 400 periodical titles.

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Title: The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University: documenting the broad range of American vernacular music.
Author: Paul F. Wells
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1998
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v54Issue: n4Page: p860(13)

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Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times. As rich, diverse, and wide-ranging as the topography of the state, this book will interest scholars, general readers, and students of southern history, women's history, and Tennessee history. Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times shifts the historical lens from the more traditional view of men's roles to place women and their experiences at center stage in the historical drama. The eighteen biographical essays, written by leading historians of women, illuminate the lives of familiar figures like reformer Frances Wright, blueswoman Alberta Hunter, and the Grand Ole Opry's Minnie Pearl (Sarah Colley Cannon) and less-well-known characters like the Cherokee Beloved Woman Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward), antebellum free black woman Milly Swan Price, and environmentalist Doris Bradshaw. Told against the backdrop of their times, these are the life stories of women who shaped Tennessee's history from the eighteenth-century challenges of western expansion through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century struggles against racial and gender oppression to the twenty-first-century battles with community degradation. Taken as a whole, this collection of women's stories illuminates previously unrevealed historical dimensions that give readers a greater understanding of Tennessee's place within environmental and human rights movements and its role as a generator of phenomenal cultural life. ... Read more

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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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Davy Crockett was a fighter, entertainer, Congressman, and frontiersman. Can you imagine what his life must have been like? What was he like as a person? Read this book in the American Lives series to get to know Davy Crockett. Find out how he tried to mak

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 508 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.(Notes For Notes)(National Endowment grant for cataloging and digitizing Goldstein Collection of song broadsides)
Author: Richard Griscom
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 60Issue: 1Page: 130(2)

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Chapters: List of Carnegie Libraries in Tennessee, Tennessee State Library and Archives, John C. Hodges Library, James E. Walker Library. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The following list of Carnegie libraries in Tennessee provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Tennessee, where 13 public libraries were built from 10 grants (totaling $335,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1900 to 1916. In addition, academic libraries were built at 5 institutions (totaling $270,000). Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23331671 ... Read more

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Chapters: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Indiana State Library and Historical Building, Georgia Archives, New York State Archives, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Oregon State Archives, Louisiana State Archive and Research Library, Pennsylvania State Archives. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) refers to the agency in the state of Texas that is charged with overseeing and assisting with state-wide library programs, meeting the reading-related needs of Texans with disabilities, and finally preserving and providing access to significant Texas documents. The Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more