Search Results for: The Midnight Cool
Rights and Revolutions
Historian Timothy S. Huebner discusses how a “culture of constitutionalism” shaped the Civil War era
…protect their rights as slaveholders. The election of a purely sectional candidate—Lincoln—to the highest office in the land showed, in their minds, how the government had failed them. And yet,…
Looking Back on 50 Years of Tennessee Books
50 Books / HT50, Part 2: 1978-1986
…‘Tennessee,’ a bucolic tale about the indomitability of the land and of the pioneer spirit. The actress plays an aged mountain woman, who wanders backward to tell the saga of…
Wild Goose Chase for Enlightenment
In The Men Can’t Be Saved, a rascally antihero struggles to get out of his own way
…afterlife, but in the reality of the present. The Men Can’t Be Saved fits into the sub-genre of novels about lovable rascals who must be shaken by the lapels for…
The Work of Secrecy
The Girls of Atomic City tells the stories of women in wartime Oak Ridge
…“Product” into the “Gadget.” Few of the 75,000 men and women who worked there knew the full name of the Project — the Manhattan Project or, more formally, the Manhattan…
