Mississippian Culture

Arabian Horses

General Nashville History

Civil War Nashville

American Slavery

Antebellum/Jacksonian
   America

John Overton

Historic Preservation

 

 
         
 
Suggested Readings:  
  Mississippian Culture:

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand : American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
by
Richard F. Townsend

Early Art of the Southeastern Indians: Feathered Serpents & Winged Beings
by
Susan C. Power

Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces : Searching for an Architectural Grammar
by
R. Barry Lewis

The Ganier Site: A prehistoric Indian Village in West Nashville
by
John B Broster

Southeastern Indians
by
Charles M. Hudson

Sun Circles and Human Hands : The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries
by
Emma Lila Fundaburk

Arabian Horses:

The Classic Arabian Horse
by
Judith Forbis

Arabian Spirit (Spirit of the Horse)
by
Betsy Sikora Siino

General Nashville History:

The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas
by
Bobby L. Lovett

Nashville: A Pictorial History
by
George Rollie Adams

The Nashville City Cemetery: History Carved in Stone
by
Carole Stanford Bucy and Carol Kaplan

Historic Photos of Nashville
by
Jan Duke

Classical Nashville: Athens of the South
by
Wesley Paine, Charles W. Waterfield, Susan Ford Wiltshire, Christine Kreyling

Nashville: From The Collection Of Carl & Otto Giers
by
James Hoobler

The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930
by
Louis M. Kyriakoudes

New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910
by
Don Harrison Doyle

The Nashville I Knew
by
Jack Norman

Nashville's Tennessee Centennial 1897
by
Bobby E. Lawrence

Nashville Since the 1920s
by
Don H. Doyle

Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City
by
Anita Shafer Goodstein

World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront
by
Robert G. Spinney

Nashville Interiors: 1866 To 1922
by
Amelia Whitsitt Edwards

Civil War Nashville:

Nashville: The Occupied City
by Walter Durham

Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union
by Walter Durham

Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble - Available in the Museum Store
by James Lee McDonough

Treason must be made odious: Military Occupation and Wartime Reconstruction in Nashville, Tennessee, 1862-65
by
Peter Maslowski

The Decisive Battle of Nashville - Available in the Museum Store
by Stanley Horn

The Confederacy's Last Hurrah
by Wiley Sword

The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee
by Bobby Lovett

Middle Tennessee Society Transformed
by Stephen Ash

Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865
by Thomas Connelly

Solider of Tennessee
by Sam Davis Elliott

Guide to Civil War Nashville - Available in the Museum Store
by Mark Zimmerman

Thomas: Rock of Chickamauga
by Richard O'Connor

Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War
by Noah A. Trudeau

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory - Available in the
Museum Store

by David Blight

American Slavery:

Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
by
Mark M. Smith

Roll, Jordan, Roll
by Eugene Genovese

Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City
by
Anita Shafer Goodstein

The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee
by Bobby Lovett

Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
by
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation
by
Eugene D. Genovese

American Slavery/American Freedom by Edmund Morgan

The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860
by
Drew Gilpin Faust

Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War
by
Drew Gilpin Faust

Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
by
William Kauffman Scarborough

Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee
by
Andrea Sutcliffe

Masters and Statesmen : The Political Culture of American Slavery
by
Kenneth S. Greenberg

Generations of Captivity
by Ira Berlin

Many Thousands Gone
by Ira Berlin

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation
by Ira Berlin

The Boundaries of American Culture in the Civil War Era Michael O'Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the Antebellum South, 1810-1860, 2 vols.
by Mark E. Neely

Antebellum and Jacksonian America:

The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861
by
Jonathan Daniel Wells

The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846
by
Charles Grier Sellers

Liberty and Power : The Politics of Jacksonian America
by
Harry L. Watson

Voices of the Marketplace: American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860 : American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860
by
Anne C. Rose

Andrew Jackson : His Life and Times
by
H.W. Brands

Constructing Townscapes: Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee
by
Lisa C. Tolbert

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
by
Sean Wilentz

Andrew Jackson
by
Sean Wilentz

Moralists and Modernizers : America's Pre-Civil War Reformers
by
Steven Mintz

How the West Was Lost
by Stephen Aron

American Confluence: the Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State
by Stephen Aron

John Overton:

History of the Tennessee Supreme Court - Available in the Museum Store
by
James W. Ely

Dear Judge: Selected letters of John Overton of Travellers' Rest
by
John Overton

The Mind of John Overton: With passages from his legal opinions and other writings
by
Kenneth S Cooper

Historic Preservation:

Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice
by
Norman Tyler

Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World
by
James M. Fitch

Saving America's Countryside : A Guide to Rural Conservation. For The National Trust for Historic Preservation
by
Samuel N. Stokes

The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader's Guide
by
Donovan D. Rypkema

A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century
by
Robert E. Stipe

Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historical Identity
by
Diane L. Barthel

 
 
     
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