WTHS Papers 1988 - 2006
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Papers:  2006

"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
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 
 

Papers:  2005
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Articles:
"A Journey to Desegregation:  Race and Memphis' Henry Loeb, III"..................
......................................................................................................Mantri Sivananda
"Grand Duke Alexis in Memphis and Redefining Southern Identity During
Reconstruction"................................................................................Lee A. Farrow
"Porter-Leath Children's Center:  Memphis, Tennessee's First Orphanage.....
..............................................................................................Judy Bussell LeForge
Notes and Documents:
"West Tennessee College:  Part 3:  The Demise (1865-1874)"........................
................................................................................Pam Dennis and Jimmy Davis
"A Good Tammany Hall Tennessean:  The Life and Papers of Edward Hull
Crump".........................................................................................G. Wayne Dowdy
"Henry County, Tennessee:  Past & Present, Place, People, Parable"............
.....................................................................................................Larry T. McGehee
Book Reviews:
Hughes, et. al., Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell C.S.A., Forrest's Fighting
Lieutenant
.............................................................reviewed by Nathan K. Moran
Ashdown and Caudill, The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest...............................
..............................................................................reviewed by Gregory G. Biggs
Mackey, The Uncivil War:  Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865..
.......................................................................................reviewed by Derek Frisby
 

Papers:   2004
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Articles:
"Bullets vs. Ballots: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Congressional Election of 1862"...............................................................................................Nathan K. Moran
"Gallant and Invaluable Service:  The United States Navy at the Battle of Shiloh"..............................................................................................Timothy B. Smith
"What is All this War for Anyhow:  The Battle of Paris Tennessee" ...........................................................................................................Dieter C. Ullrich
Notes and Documents:
"West Tennessee College, Part II:  The Growing Years (1849-1865)"  ..................................................................................Pam Dennis and Jimmy Davis
Book Reviews:
Gott, Where the South Lost the War:  An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson
Campaign, February 1862
......................................reviewed by Christian McWhirter
Kent, A Politician Turned General:  The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus
Hurlbut
.............................................................................reviewed by Brian D. McKnight
Meek-Maiden, Home in the Wilderness............reviewed by Lawrence G. Gundersen

Papers:  2003
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Articles:
"Rock 'n' Roll, Race and Elvis Presley:  Southern Youth in Dissent?"...Michael Bertrand
"The Labor and Civil Rights Movements at the Crossroads:  Martin Luther King, Black Sanitation Workers, and the Memphis Sanitation Strike".............................................Michael Honey
"The Metamorphosis of C.H. Mason:  Origins of Black Pentecostal Churches in
Tennessee"...................................................................................................Elton H. Weaver
Notes and Documents:
"West Tennessee College Part 1:  The Founding (1844-1849)".........................................
...............................................................................................Pam Dennis and Jimmy Davis
Book Reviews:
Baggett, The Scalawags:  Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction......
..........................................................................................reviewed by Charles W. Crawford

Papers:  2002
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Articles:
"The Handsomest Cemetery in the South:  Shiloh National Cemetery"...Timothy B. Smith
"Expansion of the Crump Machine:  Politics in Shelby County, 1928-1936"........................
........................................................................................................................G. Wayne Dowdy
"Sanctifying the Unholy:  Black Pentecostalism, the Church of God in Christ, and African American Culture"..........................................................................................Jesse E. Lipford
"Frontier Progressive:  Alexander Jackson of Madison County"...........................................
Harvey Gresham Hudspeth
"The Life and Career of Robert Fain Looney of Memphis, Tennessee................................
Patrick W. O'Daniel
"Henry Loeb's Retirement and last Days, 1972-1992".............................Mantri Sivananda
Notes and Documents:
"Jackson Male Academy"......................................................Pam Dennis and Jimmy Davis
"Gray's Creek Missionary Baptist Church"....................................................Sylvester Lewis
"The Shelby County Public Defender's Office"........................................John Brennan Getz
"Glimpses of Methodist History in the Mid-South........................................Elton Watlington
CONTRIBUTORS
THE MARSHALL WINGFIELD AWARD
LIST OF MEMBERS AND SUBSCRIBERS
INDEX
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM

Papers2001
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Articles:
"The Pinson Mounds Complex".........................................................................Mark R. Norton
"Settlement Patterns In Antebellum Tipton County"...........................................John Marshall
"Remember Me To Everybody:  The Civil War Letters Of Samuel Henry Eells, Twelfth Michigan Infantry"...............................................................................................................Derek W. Frisby
"The Work Among The Colored Brethren:  Race Religion, And Social Order In The New South, 1890-1920"......................................................................................................Fred Arthur Bailey
"Kenneth McKellar's Role In The Investigation Of War Industries, 1917-1918"......................
.....................................................................................................................James W. Lantrip, Jr.
"Censoring Popular Culture:  Political And Social Control In Segregated Memphis"............
...........................................................................................................................G. Wayne Dowdy
Notes and Documents:
"Old Hickory And West Tennessee Patriotism"................................................Martha J. King
"Loose Papers Of The Taxing District Of Shelby County:  The Legislative Council Tickler File"...
........................................................................................................................Robert C. Cruthirds
Book Reviews:
Wilderness:  A Tale Of The Civil War.................................reviewed by David B. Sachsman
Emily Donelson Of Tennessee.................................................reviewed by June H. McEwen
Tennessee's New Deal Landscape:  A Guidebook.........................reviewed by Ned L. Irwin
CONTRIBUTORS
THE MARSHALL WINGFIELD AWARD
LIST OF MEMBERS AND SUBSCRIBERS
INDEX
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM

 

Papers2000
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Articles:
"The Self-Defined African American Community Of Jim Crow Memphis".......S. Davidson Hill
"The School Across Town:  A Comparative Study Of Teachers College Culture In Memphis"....................................................................................................George Graham Perry III
"Henry Loeb III As Public Works Commissioner, 1956-1959".......................Mantri Sivananda
"Those Were Wonderful Years":  The Role Of Women In Early Memphis Radio Broadcasting And A History of WHER-AM, The "All Girl" Station In Memphis, 1955-1974"......Stephen B. Stine
"Production Of The Downtowner Motel Chain In Memphis"...........................Kieth A. Sculle
Notes and Documents:
"The Pronunciation of Aunt: Differences Between African Americans And Whites In North Mississippi And West Tennessee"..............................................Rebecca R. Cargile
"Unquestioned Patriotism:  The Life And Papers Of Roane Waring................................................................................................Wayne Dowdy
Book Reviews:
Tennesseans And Their History.......................................reviewed by Ned L. Irwin
Blood Stained Bayou On Reelfoot Lake...........reviewed by Lindia Williams Speer
Slavery In The Clover Bottoms..........................................reviewed by Kit Rushing
Myra Inman:  A Diary Of The Civil War In East Tennessee.......................................................................reviewed by Francis Bender
Lake County Memories:  History In Newspapers And Pictures............................................................................reviewed by John Dougan
CONTRIBUTORS
THE MARSHALL WINGFIELD AWARD
LIST OF MEMBERS AND SUBSCRIBERS
INDEX
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM

 

Papers:  1999  
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Articles:
"On The Road To Memphis With General Ulysses S. Grant".......Gary L. Donhardt
"Lizzie Davie:  The Ghost Of Brinkley Female College"................William S. Davie
"Poetic Justice:  The Life And Works Of Walter Malone"............Stephanie DeClue
"The Electric Coach In Memphis, 1931-1960"........................Marilyn Horton-Taylor
"E.H. Crump And The Mayors Of Memphis"....................................Wayne Dowdy
"The Life And Career Of Walter Chandler"........................................Paul W. White
"Our Relation To Persons Of African Descent Has Been Less Than Ideal...":  The 
Southern Baptist Conventions, The Christian Life Commission, And Race
Relations......................................................................................Holly Reed Harrison
Book Reviews:
Couto, Lifting The Veil:  A Political History Of Struggles For Emancipation..................
...................................................................................reviewed by Jonathan M. Atkins
Cooper And Liu, Grace In China:  An American Woman Beyond The Great Wall,
1934-1974
....................................................................reviewed by S. Kittrell Rushing
CONTRIBUTORS
THE MARSHALL WINGFIELD AWARD
LIST OF MEMBERS AND SUBSCRIBERS
INDEX
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM
 

Papers:   1998 
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Articles:
"Memphis Recaptured By Confederate Army:  The Eleventh Annual Confederate Veterans Reunion Of 1901"............................................................. Chris Armstrong
"Congressman Henry Emerson Etheridge On The Slavery Question And The Kansas-Nebraska Act"..................................................................... Lonnie E. Maness
"West Tennessee And The Cotton Frontier 1818-1840".........................................
........................................................................................... Lawrence G. Gundersen, Jr.
"Going To The Chapel:  History Of A Rural Town"............. Gregory T. Williams
"Tennessee's Constitutional Conventions Of 1796, 1834, 1870:  A Comparative Summary"................................................................................... Judy Bussell LaForge
"Seven Days In Nashville:  Politics, The State Debt And The Making Of A United States Senator, January 19-26, 1881"......................................... Harvey G. Hudspeth
"Baptism By Fire, Forging Of Veterans:  The Thirteenth Tennessee Infantry And The Battle Of Belmont"................................................................................. Mark L. Arnold
"Memphis Mayors 1827-1866:  A Collective Study"........................ John Mark Long
Notes and Documents:
"What A Man!  Clifton Bledsoe Cates, General Of Marines, And 19th Commandant Of The Marine Corps".........................................................................Ashley W. Fisher
"Liberalism, Advocacy And Activism:  The Atlantic Union Movement In Memphis"...........................................................................................James C. Thompson
"Three Eds:  Memphis In 1948"................................................Sally Palmer Thomason
"Selected Civil Rights Resources Of The Memphis And Shelby County Room"............................................................Patricia M. LaPointe and Wayne Dowdy
Book Reviews:
Just The Facts..................................................................reviewed by S. Kittrell Rushing
Echoes For The Holocaust:  A Memoir...................reviewed by Barbara Straus Reed
Lexical Change And Variation In The Southeastern United States, 1930-1990.................................................................................reviewed by John Tinkler
Edith Wharton:  Art And Allusion.....................reviewed by Verbie Lovorn Prevost
Ain't Nothin' Sweeter Than A Magnolia Moon......reviewed by Verbie Lovorn Prevost

 

Papers:   1997 
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President's Message.........................................................................................................................Doug Cupples
Articles:
"They Met At Lockridges Mills"..........................................................Dieter C. Ulrich
"Dialectic Tensions In T.O. Fuller's Historical Writings"..........................................
................................................................................................Randolph Meade Walker
"An Introduction To The Editorial Art Work Of James Pinckney Alley, The First
Cartoonist For Thee Memphis Commercial Appeal"..............................James B. Jones
"Regional Planning On A  Local Scale:  The Brief Life Of Pickwick Village"..........
...........................................................................................................Steve Killingsworth
"Rebel To The Core:  Memphis' Confederate Civil War Refugees"...........................
.........................................................................................................Douglas W. Cupples
"Miracle Waters And Disappearing Towns:  Rustic Inn Of Rogers Springs, Ten-
nessee".................................................................................................Stephen L. Shaver
"Venerate The Plow:  Agricultural Life In Antebellum Fayette County, Tennessee"
................................................................................................................Gary T. Edwards
"Randolph, The Glory Years".....................................................................Don Wilson
Notes and Documents:
"Something For The Colored People:  Memphis Mayor Frank Tobey And The East
Olive Bombing"......................................................................................Wayne Dowdy
"Historic Elmwood Cemetery".................................................................Sara Holmes
"Noel Gilbert And His Contribution To The Growth Of Music In Memphis"..........
...................................................................................................     ........Roy C. Brewer
"Alfred Tyler Fielder:  Tennessee Confederate Soldier"..........Ann York Franklin
Book Reviews:
Parties, Politics, And The Sectional Conflict In Tennessee 1832-1861........................
...................................................................................reviewed by S. Kittrell Rushing

 

Papers: 1996 
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President's Message...........................................................................................Doug Cupples
Tennessee Statehood Bicentennial, Remarks...........................Vice-President Al Gore
Articles:
"Milton Brown, 1804-1883: West Tennessee's Man For All Seasons"...................................................................................................by Russell Fowler
"Machine Gun Kelly-A Return To Paradise..........................by Linda McGregor Scott
"Memphis's Nymphs Du Pave: The Most Abandoned Women In The World"...........................................................................................................by Darla Brock
"The Factors Of Urban Development: Cotton Brokers And Merchants In Anti-bellum Memphis, 1850-1860"..............................................................by Joe Wojak
"Unmasking Jim Crow: Unorganized Strikes By African-American Workers In Memphis During 1937".............................................................................by Scott Melton
"An Oasis In A Desert Of Woe: The Yellow Fever Epidemic In Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee".................................................................................by Larry A. Bohn
"Irish Immigration And Settlement In Memphis, Tennessee: 1820-1860"..........................................................................................by Darrell B. Uselton
"The Origin Of The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church"..........by Charles Ferris
"Antagonist Of The Invisible Empire: The Editorials Of C.P.J. Mooney"................................................................................................by Paul J. Bowman
"Edwin Dalstrom, 1886-1974: A Legacy Of Responsible Citizenship, Fifty Years Of Service To The Memphis Community".....................................................Susan D. Wise
"History Of Court Of General Sessions, Shelby County Tennessee"...................................................................................................by John B. Getz
"San Fernando De Las Barrancas: An Essay Review"....by John and Georgia Harkins
"Reclaiming A Lost Connection: A Brief History Of Meriwether Lewis And William Clark In West Tennessee".............................................................by Alice Long
Book Reviews:
Luke Lea Of Tennessee....................................................reviewed by Glen A. Himebaugh
Tennessee's Historic Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide....reviewed by Robert Pomerenk
William Faulkner And The Rites Of Passage............    ...........reviewed by Arlie Herton
The Light Of Other Days........................................................reviewed by Sally B. Young
The New South Comes To Wiregrass Georgia: 1860-1910.....  ..reviewed by Peter Cash
Dream Revisionaries: Gender And Genre In Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-1920...........................................................................reviewed by C. Michelle Lewis

 

Papers1995 
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President's Message.......................................................................................Doug Cupples
DEDICATION:
Articles:
"My Dear, Manly Son: The Death Of Jefferson Davis, Jr., At Buntyn Station, Tennessee, 1879"……………………………………………………Alice S. Long
"Pleasant M. Miller, 1773-1849: The Last Of The Titans Of Tennessee’s Founding Age"………………………………………………………........….Russell Fowler
Jackson Fibre Co.: Welfare Capitalism And Public Work In A Southern Textile Village, 1900-1926"………………………………………….……Steven L. Baker
"The Broken Chord, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1934-1981"…........................................................................................Charles B. DeWitt
"If We Are Citizens By The Law, Let Us Enjoy The Fruits Of This Privilege: African-American Political Struggles In A Tennessee Mountain City, 1869-1912"…………...........................................................................James B. Jones, Jr.
"Jefferson Davis As War Leader: The Case From Fort Donelson Through The Kentucky Invasion Of 1862"…………………...………………Lonnie E. Maness
"The Life And Times Of Reverend Hamilton Parks: Pioneer Preacher".........................................................................................…Darrell B. Uselton
"The Memphis Red Sox Stadium:  A Social Institution In Memphis’ African American Community"……………………………………………Kurt McBer
"Beans, Blankets, And Barbed Wire: The Memphis Army Services Depot In World War II"………………………………………..…………William E. Maxwell, Jr.
"Machine Prince Or Mayoral Pauper: Watkins Overton’s Political Relationship With Ed Crump And The Crump Machine"……………………Scott Melton
"Organizing Jackson’s Purchase, Land Law And It’s Impact On West Tennessee"…………………………………………………..Nathan K. Morgan
"Jimmy Peeler: Boss Politics In Rural West Tennessee And Its Challenges"...............................................................................................…Jim Hardin
Notes and Documents:
Some Libraries Of Antebellum West Tennessee……….........….James X. Corgan
The Life And Times Of Lena A. Warner, The Volunteer Nightingale.........................................................................................…Mary P. Moran
The Perfect Thirty-Six: Tennessee And The Woman Suffrage Movement.......................................................................................…Janette C. Russell
The Roberta Church Collection At The Memphis And Shelby County Library And Research Center……………………………...…………..……Patricia La Pointe
Book Reviews:
Flannery O’Connor, The Woman, The Thinker, The Visionary...........................…..............................reviewed by Verbie Lovorn Prevost
Carl Sanders: Spokesman Of The New South…............reviewed by Jean R. Holbrook
New Women Of The South: The Leaders Of The Woman Suffrage Movement In The Southern States………………………...……...............reviewed by Deborah Elwell Arkfen
Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics...reviewed by Marius Carrier, Jr.
Black Southerners In Gray: Essays On Afro-Americans In Confederate Armies…………………………………….….reviewed by Douglas W. Cupples
The Shoot, Burn And Hang: Folk-History From A Kentucky Mountain Family And Community………………………………..…..reviewed by Mary Jane Holbrook

 

Papers: 1994 
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Articles:
"Selected Aspects Of Drug Abuse In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Century Tennessee, CA. 1830-1820"..............................................................James B. Jones
"Sue Shelton White: The Making Of A Radical"....................Betty Sparks Huehls
"Chancellor William Macon Smith And Judicial Reconstruction:  A Study Of Tyranny And Integrity"..............................................................................Russel Fowler
"In Search Of...General William Henry Carroll".........................Bruce Allardice
"The Presidential Election Of 1952 In Tennessee".................Phillip A. Grant, Jr.
"Domestic Recreation And Household Amusements:  Spousal Abuse In Memphis, 1861-1865"..............................................................................................Darla Brock
"Military Government And Divided Loyalties, The Union Occupation Of Northwest Tennessee, June 1862-August 1862"...................................Nathan K. Moran
"Agriculture, Race And Free Blacks In West Tennessee"...............Steve Baker
"Why They Chose To Stay:  The Petitions Of Free Persons Of Color To Remain In Shelby County, Tennessee, 1843-1853"..............................................John Dougan
Notes And Documents:
Steel Driving Men.............................................................................Terry Thompson
217 Exchange:  A History Of The Property And Its Owners..........John B. Getz
Book Reviews:
National Bank Of Commerce:  The First 120 Years....reviewed by Charles W. Crawford
Valleys Of The Shadow:  The Memoirs Of Confederate Captain Reuben G. Clark
.............................................................................................reviewed by Willene B. Clark
Printers In Appalachia:  The International Printing Pressmen And Assistants' Union Of North America.........................................................................reviewed by Jack Mooney
The South's Finest:  The First Missouri Confederate Brigade From Pea Ridge To Vicksburg...............................................................reviewed by Philip Thomas Tucker
Erskine Caldwell:  A Biography.....................................reviewed by Harvey L. Klevar
Oakseeds:  Stories From The Land........................................reviewed by Gary W. Cook

 

Papers: 1993 
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Articles:
"Goldsmith's:  A Memphis Department Store Family"...........Patricia LaPointe
"Poles In The Confederacy?  Who Let 'Em In!:  The Grand Junction Riot Of 1861"
...............................................................................................Christopher Blackburn
"For Their Exclusive Enjoyment:  Racial Politics And The Founding Of Douglass Park, Memphis, 1810-1913"............................................................William H. Frye
"Henry Emerson Etheridge And The Gubernatorial Election Of 1867:  A Study Of Futility"..............................................................................................Lonnie E. Maness
"Road Building In And Near Memphis"....................................Ronald W. Waschka
"Levin Hudson Coe"........................................................................Jeanne Crawford
"The Golden Age Of Acting In The Charleston Of The West:  Theater In Memphis, Tennessee In The 1850s"................................................................Loretta Galbraith
Book Reviews:
African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South...................................
...............................................................................reviewed by David M. Tucker
The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain:  Father John B. Bannon..........................
..............................................................................................reviewed by Ed Frank
Lost Colony of the Confederacy...........................reviewed by Douglas Cupples
Old Southhampton:  Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869.....
..................................................................................reviewed by Marius Carriere 

 

Papers: 1992 
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Articles:
"Early Railroad Development At Memphis".......................Ronald W. Waschka
"No Alternative Left: State and County Government In Northwest Tennessee 
During The Union Invasion, January-June 1862".......................Nathan K. Moran
"Cut Loose The Corset Strings Of Dull Times: Attending Carnival In Memphis
 Through Newsprint Advertising, 1872-1881"...............................Eda Clarke Fain
"Carl Guthrez: Memphis Beginnings".............................................Marilyn Masler
"First Monday: A Trade Day And Social Institution In Trenton, Tennessee"......
...........................................................................................................Marvin Downing
Notes and Documents:
"Selective Index To The Memphis Appeal: 1846"....................Joyce A. Mckibben
"Elisha Spruille Burford, Soldier And Pastor, 1839-1894".......................................
.................................................................................................Walter P. Armstrong, Jr.
"A Sketch Of The Memphis Waterfront, 1859"
Book Reviews:
Frontiers in Conflict:  The Old Southwest, 1795-1830..................................................
....................................................................................reviewed by Marvin Downing
Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee:  The Archaeology of Bluff
Furnace........................................................................reviewed by Robert E. Dalton
Nashville, 1780-1860:  From Frontier to City............reviewed by Marvin Downing
Embrace an Angry Wind:  The Confederacy's Last Hurrah:  Spring Hill, Franklin,
and Nashville..................................................................reviewed by Doug Cupples
The Battle of Belmont..........................................................reviewed by John B. Getz
A Battle From the Start:  The Life of nathan Bedford Forrest.........................................
.........................................................................................reviewed by Doug Cupples
A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy:  The Daries and Letters of Belle
Edmondson..............................................................reviewed by S. Kittrell Rushing
Memories of the 1937 Flood in Lake County Tennessee........................................
.....................................................................................reviewed by Michele L. Fagan
Memphis:  An Architectural Guide..............................reviewed by John E. Wells
 Papers: 1991 
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Articles:
"River Transportation At Memphis Before The Civil War".........Ronald W. Waschka
"Our Hands Are At Your Service:  The Story Of Confederate Women In Memphis"..
..............................................................................................................................Darla Brock
"Ida B. Well's Diary: A Narrative Of The Black Community In Memphis In The
1880's"............................................................................................Mirriam DeCosta-Willis
"The National Conference Of Christian And Jews In Memphis, 1932-1989".................
.................................................................................................................Harry E. Moore, Jr.
"The "Arme Blanche" In Tennessee:  The Battle Of Middleburg"..................................
..............................................................................................................Charles H. Richards
"The Early Scientific Exploration Of West Tennessee:  Gerald Troost's Travels
In 1833"....................................................James X. Corgan and Michael A. Gibson, eds. 
"A Historical Sketch Of Tipton County, Tennessee, 1823-1876, By Colonel R.H.
Munford"............................................................................................David A. Gwinn, ed. 
"Hostelery In Memphis, 1541-1991: A Photographic Essay".........................................
...................................................................................John E. Harkins and Pat McCarver
"Tallyhos And Tights:  The Showgirl And The Playboy"..............Rebel C. Forrester
Notes And Documents:
"The Two Eds Of Memphis-Meeman And Crump"............................Clark Porteous
"St. Brigid's Church:  The First Decade Of An Irish Parish In Memphis, 1870-1879"
.........................................................................................................................John B. Getz
Book Reviews:
"Seeing the Elephant":  Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh.................................................
.........................................................................................reviewed by S. Kittrell Rushing
General John H. Winder.............................................reviewed by Douglas W. Cupples
A History of Cuba, Tennessee:  With Family Accounts and Genealogy.................................
...................................................................................................reviewed John E. Harkins
Destroyer of the Iron Horse:  General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport,
 1861-1865.....................................................................reviewed by Michael Deaderick
An Untutored Genius:  The Military Career of General Nathan Bedford Forrest..................
......................................................................................reviewed by Christopher Losson
Confederate Chronicles of Tennessee.....................................reviewed by Jerry O. Porter
Old Jim Canaan...................................................................reviewed by John E. Harkins
Glory and Tears:  Obion County, Tennessee, 1860-1870.........reviewed by John B. Getz
Now Let's Go Back:  Ed Dietzel Remembers Early Union City.............................................
..........................................................................................reviewed by Nathan K. Moran

Papers: 1990 
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Articles:
"Thomas Jefferson Dobyns: River City Daguerrean Entrepeneur"..........Beth Ouimet
"The Civil War:  An Historigraphical Essay-The Importance Of The West And 
Tennessee"................................................................................................Lonnie E. Maness
"An Admiring Nephew-In-Law:  The Relationship Of John Christmas McLemore 
And Andrew Jackson".............................................................................Marvin Downing
"Selective Index To The Appeal: 1845"................................................Joyce A. McKibben
Book Reviews:
Monterrey Is Ours!  The Mexican War Letter of Lieutenant Dana, 1845-1847......................
......................................................................................reviewed by Joseph G. Dawson III
Old Southwest Humor from the St. Louis Reveille, 1844-1850................................................
..............................................................................................reviewed by Stephen E. Grice
Fighting for the Confederacy:  The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter
Alexander..................................................................reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors:  Frank Cheatham and his Confederate Division...................
............................................................................................reviewed by John I. Boxberger
The Fort Pillow Massacre:  The Reason Why............reviewed by Robert C.  Mainfort, Jr.
Andrew Johnson and the Negro.................................................reviewed by Terry L. Seip
The Papers of Andrew Johnson, Volume 8, May-August, 1865.............................................
...............................................................................................reviewed by Michael Shirley
Personal Reminiscenes of General Robert E. Lee......................................................................
.....................................................................................reviewed by Douglas W. Cupples
Black, White, and Southern Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present
........................................................................................reviewed by Kenneth W. Goings
Fayette County......................................................................reviewed by H. Blair Bentley
 
Papers: 1989
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Articles:
"The Early History Of Overton Park And The Memphis Park System".......................
.................................................................................................................John Linn Hopkins
"Reconstruction In Tennessee:  As Assessment For Thaddeus Stevens"......................
.....................................................................................................................Daniel W. Crofts
"Nothern Missionary Aid Socities, The Freedmen's Bureau And Their Effect On
Education In Montgomery, County Tennessee".............................Frank M. Hodgson
"Annie Cook: The Mary Magdalene Of Memphis".............................Franklin Wright
"Selective Index To The Appeal: 1843-1844"......................................Joyce A. McKibben
Book Reviews:
An Account of Upper Louisiana...................................reviewed by Maurice A. Crouse
Reluctant Confederates:  Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis...............................
.............................................................................................reviewed by George C. Rable
Churches in Cultural Captivity:  A History of the Social Attitudes of Southern Baptists
........................................................................................reviewed by Fred Arthur Bailey
The Southern Baptist:  A Subculture in Transition.......reviewed by Fred Arthur Bailey
A Literary History of Kentucky....................................reviewed by Joseph R. Millichap
Conscience of a Conservationist:  Selected Essays...........reviewed by Robert S. Maxwell
I. Phil:  The Journey of a Twentieth-Century Religious.........................................................
......................................................................................reviewed by Patricia M. LaPointe
Crockett at Two Hundred:  New Perspectives on the Man and the Myth.............................
........................................................................................reviewed by John P. Wittenberg

Papers: 1988 
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Articles:
"Carroll Cloar: An Old Timey Painter"..............................................Mary P. Scheuner
"The Northern Exodus From Memphis During The Secession Crisis"........................
..................................................................................................................Charles L. Lufkin
"Dubois' Memphis Connection"................................................Miriam DeCosta-Willis
"The Seventh Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry:  West Tennessee Unionists In
Andersonville Prison"........................................................................Peggy Scott Holley
Book Reviews:
The Presidency of James K. Polk..........................................reviewed by Major L. Wilson
Forts Henry and Donelson:  The Key to the Confederate Heartland.......................................
......................................................................................reviewed by Archie P. McDonald
The Tall Tales of Davy Crockett:  the Second Nashville Series of Crockett Almanacs 1839-
1841..........................................................................reviewed by Michael Montgomery
Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870:  War and Peace in the Upper South
.............................................................................................reviewed by Marius Carriere
Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson.............................................reviewed C. Edward Skeen
Advice After Appomattox:  Letters to Andrew Johnson, 1865-1866......................................
...............................................................................................reviewed by Harold Holzer
Morgan County..................................................................reviewed by Robert L. Taylor
The Southern Agrarians.....................................................reviewed by Stephen E. Grice
Giving Glory to God in Appalachia:  Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations
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West Tennessee Historical Society Papers: Cumulative Index.  Volumes XXXI-XLI, 1977-1987...94

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