Books: Other Important Nashville Histories


Other books important to the history of Nashville include:


  • Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 1823

  • Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 1853

  • Carr's Early Times in Middle Tennessee, 1857

  • Guild's Old Times in Tennessee, 1878

  • Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, 1887

  • Thomas's Old Days in Nashville, Tenn., 1897

  • Justi's Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition: Opened May 1, and Closed October 30, 1897, 1898

  • Gravure Co.'s Art Work of Nashville, Tenn., 1901

  • Page's The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning, 1907

  • Elliott's Early History of Nashville, 1911

  • Matthews's General James Robertson: Father of Tennessee, 1934

  • Garden Club's History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee, 1936, 1964

  • James's The Life of Andrew Jackson, 1938

  • Windrow's John Berrien Lindsley, 1938

  • McFerrin's Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire, 1939

  • Davenport's Cultural Life in Nashville, 1825-1860, 1941

  • Mims's History of Vanderbilt University, 1946

  • Baird's The Life and Works of Charles Edgar Little, 1949

  • Caldwell's Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, 1949

  • Horn's The Hermitage: Home of Old Hickory, 1950

  • West's The Life and Times of David Lipscomb, 1954

  • Horn's The Decisive Battle of Nashville, 1956

  • Arnow's Seedtime on the Cumberland, 1960

  • Douglas's Steamboatin' on the Cumberland, 1961

  • Arnow's Flowering of the Cumberland, 1963

  • THC's Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents, 1964

  • Creighton's Building of Nashville, 1969

  • May's The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, 1820-1970, 1970

  • Waller's Nashville in the 1890's, 1970

  • NPL's Seven Early Churches of Nashville, 1972

  • Waller's Nashville, 1900-1910, 1972

  • Kelley's Children of Nashville: Lineages of James Robertson, 1973

  • Graham's Nashville: A Short History and Selected Buildings, 1974

  • Crouch's and Claybrook's Our Ancestors Were Engineers, 1976

  • Crutchfield's Early Times in the Cumberland Valley, 1976

  • Frank's Beginnings on Market Street, 1976

  • Zibart's Yesterday's Nashville, 1976

  • Beasley's A Directory of Nashville and Davidson County Historical Markers, 1977

  • Windrow's Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb, 1977

  • McGaw's The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictorial History, 1978

  • NPL's Nashville: A Family Town, 1978

  • Maiden's Highlights of the Nashville Theater, 1876-1890, 1979

  • Jennings's The Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1850, 1980

  • Wheeler's and Neblett's Chosen Exile, 1980

  • Adams's and Christian's Nashville: A Pictorial History, 1981

  • Davis's Nashville Tales, 1981

  • THS's Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901, 1981

  • NPL's Nashville: Families and Homes, 1983

  • Summerville's Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College, 1983

  • Norman, Sr.'s The Nashville I Knew, 1984

  • Cowan's Annie Was A Lady: A Biography of Annie Claybrooke Allison, 1985

  • Doyle's Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930, 1985

  • Doyle's Nashville Since the 1920s, 1985

  • Durham's Nashville: The Occupied City, 1985

  • Masserano's The Nashville Dominicans, 1985

  • Creighton, Jr.'s and Johnson's The First Presbyterian Church of Nashville: A Documentary History, 1986

  • Hoobler's Cities Under the Gun, 1986

  • Johnson's The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation, 1986

  • Durham's Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union, 1987

  • Karr's, Kosten's, Flexer's, and Stillman's Nashville Trivia, 1987

  • Sherman's A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville's Union Station, 1987

  • Goodstein's Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City, 1989

  • Orr's (et al) Notable Nashville Architecture, 1930 to 1980, 1989

  • Durham's Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796, 1990

  • Lynch's and Dick's Nashville: Upbeat and Down to Business, 1990

  • Wills II's The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation, and Stud, 1991

  • MHC's Andrew Jackson Slept Here: A Guide to Historical Markers in Nashville and Davidson County, 1993

  • Wills, II's A Walking Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 1993

  • Summerville's The Carmack-Cooper Shooting, 1994

  • Kaplan's and Simpson's Remember the Ladies: Women of Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 1995

  • Kreyling's, Paine's, Warterfield, Jr.'s, and Wiltshire's Classical Nashville: Athens of the South, 1996

  • Summerville's Colleagues on the Cumberland: A History of the Nashville Legal Profession, 1996

  • Seigenthaler's (et al) Nashville: City of Note, 1997

  • Davis's From Chicken House to the Moon, 1998

  • Lawrence's Tennessee Centennial: Nashville 1897, 1998

  • Spinney's World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront, 1998

  • THS's The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture, 1998

  • Yellin's, Sherman's, and Jones-Cornwell's The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage, 1998

  • Coke's The Hermitage Landscape: Before and After the 1998 Tornado, 1999

  • Edwards's Nashville Interiors: 1866 to 1920, 1999

  • Faragher's Nashville in Vintage Postcards, 1999

  • Hoobler's Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, 1999

  • Lovett's The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas, 1999

  • Simbeck's Daughter of the Air: The Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort, 1999

  • Summerville's Nashville Medicine: A History, 1999

  • THS's Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee, 1999

  • Wolfe's A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry, 1999

  • Bucy's and Kaplan's The Nashville City Cemetery: History Carved in Stone, 2000

  • Carey's Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History, 2000

  • Hoobler's Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers Volume II, 2000

  • Morton-Young's Nashville, Tennessee, 2000

  • Egerton's (et al) Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, 2001

  • Finger's Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition, 2001

  • Gossett's Captain Tom Ryman: His Life and Legacy, 2001

  • Sherraden's (et al) Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop, 2001

  • Conkin's Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning, 2002

  • Durham's Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont: Politics and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Tennessee, 2002

  • Grant's and Geary's Nashville: Hills of Harmony, 2002

  • Carey's Chancellors, Commodores, and Coeds : A History of Vanderbilt University, 2003

  • Kyriakoudes's The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930, 2003

  • MNAA's An Aviation Adventure: A History of Aviation in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, 2003

  • Simpson's Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends, 2003

  • Durham's Balie Peyton of Tennessee, 2004

  • Ingram's Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South Nashville, Tennessee, 2004

  • Roseman's From Y to J: The Hundred-Year History of Nashville's Jewish Community Center, 2004

  • Slate's and Lauder's (et al) "The Confederate Twenty-Dollar Irony" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter, 2004

  • West's (et al)A History of Tennessee Arts, 2004

  • Zimmerman's Guide to Civil War Nashville, 2004

  • Carey's Master of the Big Board: The Life, Time, and Business of Jack Massey, 2005

  • Duke's Historic Photos of Nashville, 2005

  • MCDaniel's Nashville Then and Now, 2005

  • Lauder's and Slate's "From Knickers to Body Stockings" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter, 2006

  • Hawkins's A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955, 2006



    (Note: There are scores of other important Nashville-related history books; adding to this list is an ongoing project.)




    Last Update: 12/28/2006