A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Telling Stories

…racial cross-pollination. Yet suddenly, with the King assassination, Memphis became synonymous with backwards policies and racial martyrdom. Memphis is now a big, bustling international city, but in some ways, it…

Altogether Fitting and Proper

Univ Tennessee Press
328 pages
$39.95


“At last, the preservation of Civil War battlefields has received a comprehensive and critical historical treatment. “

-Dwight T. Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University

The Stench of Slavery

…against American. Perhaps Appomattox wasn’t Appomattox, after all. But what if the Civil War had never happened, and the concepts behind place names—Appomattox, Gettysburg, Fort Sumter—had never existed? This counterfactual

Everyone Fights an American War

…with the political narrative of this future, though it is collected here in the form of oral histories, Senate-hearing transcripts, and newspaper articles, which provide the historical context for his…

Mountain Meanderings

…Mountains National Park’s most rewarding back-country trails. In his new book, Smokies Chronicle, he chronicles the hikes he made on trails he already knew intimately from more than twenty years…

God’s Gonna Trouble the Water

…comes down from Saint Louis. Now a card-carrying NAACP member, Belle epitomizes the education and mobility Rose craves, but also the danger of demanding civil rights. Rose’s tyrannical grandmother makes…

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