Lyda Phillips | Chapter 16

On Account of Sex

In The Woman’s Hour, Elaine Weiss dissects the battle for women’s right to vote

By Lyda Phillips | February 27, 2018

Elaine Weiss’s The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote is a riveting history of the battle to secure voting rights for American women. Weiss will discuss The Woman’s Hour at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 6, and at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on March 8.

Setting Fire to Jim Crow

In his latest satiric novel, Gerald Duff skewers the vestiges of antebellum Nashville

By Lyda Phillips | January 9, 2018

Starting from an actual 1967 forum featuring South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King Jr., activist Stokely Carmichael, and beat poet Allen Ginsburg, Gerald Duff’s Nashville Burning looks at three consecutive Aprils of violence and change at Vanderbilt and other parts of the Music City.

The Worried Wiseman

By Susan Eaddy
Morehouse Publishing
48 pages

“In these days when we all live with some sense of worry and anxiety, the book offers to children–and parents–a way to think about how we make the journey through life together and how we find calm and hope even when things feel uncertain.”

~ the publisher