
Much history, and therefore much of the stream of life, passes us by--never recorded, never honored, and after a while, never remembered.
The mission of the Nashville Historical Newsletter is to provide a medium for historical sharing. Your participation is invited and encouraged. In addition to this Web site, we publish e-mailed editions of Nashville Historical Newsletter. To request to receive these, e-mail us by clicking here.
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The editors of the NHN will conduct, for small groups, seminars entitled "Nashville History: An Introduction to Our Heritage."
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We did not just happen upon the present: the past is the impetus for today.
Mike Slate, publisher
Kathy Lauder, editor
Terry Baker, associate editor
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The bank of historical essays, links, reminiscences, oral history, genealogy, and documents on this site is courtesy of the following contributors:
LEWIS L. LASKA, REBECCA STUBBS, BEVERLY ST. JOHN,
NANCY HELT, JOSEF WILSON, LU WHITWORTH,
TERRY BAKER (4), GLORIA NEWSOM HUGGINS,
JOHN COURSEY, LAY VICHEKA, STEWART SOUTHARD,
LARRY D. McCLANAHAN, EDWIN S. GLEAVES,
PEGGY DICKINSON FLEMING (2), BONNIE ROSS MEADOR,
FRANK GULLEY, SUE LOPER, JACK ANDREW SKIPPER,
LARRY MICHAEL ELLIS (2), JOANN TURNER,
TED GUILLAUM, KEVIN CHASTINE, JEAN ROSEMAN (2),
ROBERT LYLE WILLIAMS, ILENE J. CORNWELL (3),
STEVE WATSON, PAT NOLAN, GALE WILKES FORD,
C. MICHAEL NORTON (2), MARIANNE HILLENMEYER,
JAMES SUMMERVILLE, KATHY LAUDER (7),
GORDON MacDONALD, JOHN S. LANCASTER,
AMELIA WHITSITT EDWARDS
(3), KENNETH FIETH (5),
LEONARD N. WOOD, ASHLEY LAYHEW,
SUSAN DOUGLAS WILSON (2), DORIS BOYCE (7),
GEORGIANA T. McCONNELL, AMBER BARFIELD,
JOHN LAWRENCE CONNELLY, DAVE PRICE (5),
CAROL KAPLAN, GUY ALAN BOCKMON (3), LINDA CENTER
(2),
BILLY J. SLATE, PAUL PHILLIPS, MIKE SLATE (14),
DEBIE COX (5), HOUSTON SEAT, and JEANNE M. JOHNSON.
The essays, as well as all other pages included here, may be downloaded to individual printers and shared with others. We ask, however, that proper credit be given to the authors and this site.
An appreciation for the past and for those who have gone before us often ensures the dignity of both the present and the future.
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Nashville: "Athens of the South"
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Books: NHN Anthologies
Books: Surveys of Nashville History
Books: Sectional Nashville History
Books: Other Important Nashville Histories
Articles: Nashville in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly
Links: Ten Important Web Sites
Links: Other Important Nashville Resources
Map: The Heart of Nashville, circa 1892
Essay: From Curiosity to Hope--The Work of Local Historians
Essay: Ten Important Dates in Nashville History
Essay: A Woman Challenged--The Life of Granny White
Essay: Six Triple Treat/Threat Town Sites
Essay: Adolphus Heiman's Cemetery Stonework
Essay: Pioneer History of Stone's River Near The Clover Bottoms
Essay: Gov. A.H. Roberts and his Donelson Farm
Essay: The Army Air Forces Classification Center
Essay: Duncan College Preparatory School for Boys
Essay: Slavery At The Hermitage
Essay: Clover Bottom Beach
Essay: Touring Elm Hill Pike
Essay: From Knickers to Body Stockings
Essay: A Chronology of Nashville Airports
Essay: The Story of Calvert Photography
Essay: The Rebirth of Germantown
Essay: The Nashville Theater of 1900
Essay: Remembering Nashville's Daughters
Essay: Thuss, Koellein & Giers
Essay: Four Recent Answers From Two Old Documents
Essay: Chancery Court, the Adelphi, and Adolphus Heiman
Essay: Nashville on the High Seas
Essay: The Old Nashville Market House
Essay: A Summary History of the Belmont Church
Essay: The Mill Creek Valley Turnpike
Essay: Luke Lea--A Biographical Sketch
Essay: Luke Lea in the Great War
Essay: Luke Lea in the Great Depression
Essay: The Centennial Circus Lot
Essay: Peabody's Knapp Farm Adventure
Essay: Perilous Times in Nashville
Essay: Mary Donelson Caffery and Her Pioneer Family
Essay: The Battle of Nashville: Shy, Smith, & Hood
Essay: "Washed and Dryed after being Executed"
Essay: Ghostly Tracks of the Tennessee and Pacific Railroad
Essay: School Desegregation in Nashville
Essay: A "New" Image of General James Robertson?
Essay: Courthouses of Davidson County, Tennessee
Essay: The Gilding of Nashville's Athena Parthenos
Essay: Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 Nashville Visit
Essay: The Hodge House in Percy Warner Park
Essay: Tennessee Politics 2002--An Historic Year of Change
Essay: Thomas S. Watson, Sr.--Business Partner of Andrew Jackson
Essay: The Robertson Monument--Centennial Park Monolith
Essay: John Dillahunty and Baptist Origins in Nashville
Essay: Lee Loventhal--Citizen Exemplar
Essay: S. H. Kress in Nashville--An Art Deco Parthenon?
Essay: University of Nashville in the DAB
Essay: Frank Goodman--"A Friendly, Liberal, and Progressive Spirit"
Essay: A Mortal Shooting in the Tennessee State Capitol
Essay: Nashville's City Hotel
Essay: The Relevance of 1850s Nashville
Essay: Robert "Black Bob" Renfro--From Slave to Entrepreneur
Essay: General James Robertson, Frontier Surgeon
Essay: TSLA--Tennessee's Treasurehouse
Essay: Civil Rights and the Nashville Room
Essay: The Confederate Twenty-Dollar Irony
Essay: The Metro Archives--Twenty-three Years and Counting
Essay: Vanderbilt University and Southern Methodism
Essay: The Quest for Joshua Burnett Ross
Essay: Nikita Khrushchev and Hillsboro High School
Essay: Big Harpeth River
Essay: One Reason Tennessee Prospers
Essay: Alice Thompson Collinsworth--Intrepid Pioneer
Essay: From Farm to Factory
Essay: The Southern Post Card Magazine
Essay: A Place in History--Nashville's Historic Elliston Place
Essay: Out of the Ashes of Defeat--Edward L. Buford (1842-1928)
Essay: "With the Sun behind Him"--Capt. Edward Buford Jr.
Essay: "Strength and Beauty"--Buford College of Nashville, 1901-1920
Essay: A.N. Eshman and Radnor College
Essay: A Measure of Success--The Brief Political Career of Thomas A. Sykes
Essay: The Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University
Essay: Remembering Omohundro
Essay: A History of the Buchanan Log House
Essay: Reverend Charles Spencer Smith
Essay: Ernest A. Pickup (1887-1970)
Essay: J. Percy Priest--A Fifty-Year Retrospection
Essay: John Crowe Ransom--Young Prophet to Poet
Essay: Champ Ferguson and the Hefferman Killers
Reminiscence: My Hermitage Experience
Reminiscence: Peggy Dickinson Fleming
Reminiscence: Larry D. McClanahan
Reminiscence: Memories of Cornelia Fort
Oral History: The Move to Nashville
Genealogy: Ryman
Document: No Lighted "Segars"--Rules for Nashville's First Bridge
Document: The USS Tennessee at Pearl Harbor
Document: Letter from Mary
Document: Jonathan Jennings' Will
Document: 1814 Nashville Fire
Document: 1797 Vermin Law
Document: Banquet at the Duncan
Speech: Edwin S. Gleaves
Listing: Nashville Movie Theaters
Listing: Outstanding 20th-Century Tennesseans
Musings: At the Stone-Stoner Confluence
Musings: Where is the Buchanan Station Sword?
Musings: The Trail of Tears through Nashville
Musings: Aesop and the Wedding of Human and Natural History
Musings: How Nashville Dishonored a President and Altered American History
Musings: Airdrie--Let There Be Paradise
Images: Three Presidents
Images: State School for the Blind
Images: Nashville's Confederate Monument
Images: Battle of Nashville Peace Monument
News Release: "Old Glory"
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