A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Connections

May 24, 2011 As construction begins on a Nashville road that connects the Tennessee State University campus with Centennial Park, writer John Egerton considers the significance of the names of local roads: “I found myself thinking about how much history is yielded up in the words and symbols of a good map when I saw in the paper recently that construction of a connector street between 28th and 31st avenues will be given a ceremonial send-off today, just a couple of miles west of the Metro Courthouse,” he writes in an op-ed piece for the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal.

No Bull

May 16, 2011 Nobody fiddles with words better than Roy Blount Jr. A regular on National Public Radio’s quiz show Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, the Vanderbilt graduate also serves as a usage adviser to The American Heritage Dictionary and has written two books—2009’s Alphabet Juice and this summer’s Alphabetter Juice—that are sort of like dictionaries in their own right, only dictionaries glossed by a master comic.

Crush: 26 Real-LifeTales of First Love

Harlequin
272 pages
$13.95


Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.

–From the Publisher

Crush: 26 Real-LifeTales of First Love

The Unionist in East Tennessee: Captain William K. Byrd and the Mysterious Raid of 1861

The History Press
192 pages
$21.99


During the Civil War, Tennessee was perhaps the most conflicted state in the Confederacy. Allegiance to either side could mean life or death, as Union militia captain and longtime Tennessee native William K. Byrd discovered in the fall of 1861 when he and his men were ambushed by a band of Confederate sympathizers and infantrymen. This unauthorized raid led to the arrest of thirty-five men and the death of several others. Details of this mysterious skirmish have remained buried in archives and personal accounts for years. Now, for the first time, A Unionist in East Tennessee uncovers a dramatic yet forgotten chapter of Civil War history.

–From the Publisher

The Unionist in East Tennessee: Captain William K. Byrd and the Mysterious Raid of 1861

Quitter

Lampo Press
256 pages
$19.99


Have you ever felt caught between the tension of a day job and a dream job? That gap between what you have to do and what you d love to do?

–From the Publisher

Quitter

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement

University of Georgia Press
510 pages
$26.95


“Engaging and accessible for nonspecialists and thought provoking for scholars, this well-written, feisty book offers cutting-edge historiography, tools for teachers, and insights for all of us. It is a must read for anyone interested in the freedom struggle and in a just, democratic society.”

–Julian Bond, founding member of SNCC and former chair of the NAACP

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement
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