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Papers: 2008
Articles:
"From Atelier to MFA (Then On To The Atelier): A Short History of
Art
Education in Memphis, Tennessee".............................by Douglas W.
Cupples
"A Bend in the River: An Investigation of Black Agency, Autonomy, and
Resistance
in Memphis, Tennessee (1846-1866)"..................by 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".........by Jack
Lorenzini
"The Extrication of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Command from West
Tennessee, 25 December 1862 - 1 January 1863".........by 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
Papers: 2007
Articles:
"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
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
(return to start)
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
(return to start)
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
(return to start)
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
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