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In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of
settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a
forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee.
Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a
settlement now known as Nashville-over one thousand river miles
away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the
Donelson party's journey in his hand-built fourteen-and-a-half-foot
motorless rowing sailboat (named Adventure II after Donelson's
boat) while making a visual documentation of the river as it
currently exists 240 years later. This photo book contains more
than 120 striking images from the course of the journey, allowing
the reader to see how much has changed and how much has remained
untouched in the two and a half centuries since Donelson first took
to the water. Equally significant, the essays include long-ignored
contemporary histories of both the Cherokee whom Donelson
encountered and the slaves he brought with him, some of whom did
not survive the journey. From his platform just a few feet above
the waterline, Guider, a professional photographer, created images
of the thousand-mile trip along three of Tennessee's most notable
rivers.
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical
markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about
the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold
keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of
interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.
Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to
interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of
racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through
the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries
throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth
through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the
importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for
examining power relations, community formation, and historical
memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of
scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists,
and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial
segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about
how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and
reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a
learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work
of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to
their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for
both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the
novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries
for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic
landscape, and identity politics.
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical
markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about
the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold
keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of
interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.
Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to
interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of
racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through
the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries
throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth
through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the
importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for
examining power relations, community formation, and historical
memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of
scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists,
and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial
segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about
how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and
reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a
learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work
of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to
their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for
both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the
novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries
for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic
landscape, and identity politics.
The indelible stamp of the New Deal can be seen across American in
the public works projects that modernized the country even as they
provided employment during the Great Depression. Tennessee, in
particular, benefited from the surge in federal construction. The
New Deal not only left the state with many public buildings and
schools that are still in active use, but is conservation and
reclamation efforts also changed the lives of Tennesseans for
generations to come.
In Tennessee's New Deal Landscape, Caroll Van West examines over
250 historic sites created from 1933 to 1942: courthouses, post
offices, community buildings, schools, and museums, along with the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Cherokee National Forest,
and the dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He
describes the significant and impact of each project and provides
maps to guide readers to the sites described.
West discusses architectural styles that are often difficult to
identity, and his lively narrative points out some of the paradoxes
of New Deal projects-such as the proliferation of leisure parks
during the nation's darkest hours. In highlighting these projects,
he shows that Tennessee owes much not only to TVA but also to many
other agencies and individuals who left their mark on the landscape
through roads, levees, and reforested hillsides as well as
buildings.
An invaluable resource for travelers as well as scholars, this
book reveals a legacy of historic treasures that are well worth
preserving.
The Author: Carroll Van West is projects manager for the Center
of Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University. The
author of Tennessee's Historic Landscapes, he most recently edited
the volumes Tennessee History: The Land, the People, and the
Culture and the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. He
is also senior editor of the Tennessee Historic Quarterly.
Focusing on the Clark's Fort Bottom, a twenty-five-mile stretch
between present-day Park City and Billings, Montana, this
pathbreaking study examines the successive stages of capitalist
development in Billings and the Yellowstone Valley during the
nineteenth century. From the subsistence and barter economy of the
Native Americans, through the fur trade era and the settlers'
introduction of a market economy, the introduction of industrial
capitalism by the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the increasing
influence of corporate capitalism in the latter part of the
century, Carroll Van West shows how each stage affected the
relationships and choices shared by the local inhabitants.
By setting local events in a broader context, West not only
illuminates the circumstances unique to the Yellowstone Valley but
sheds new light on a central issue of western history: the
interaction of local, regional, and national economies and the
influence of corporate decisions made in the east on western
settlement and urban development.
The indelible stamp of the New Deal can be seen across American in
the public works projects that modernized the country even as they
provided employment during the Great Depression. Tennessee, in
particular, benefited from the surge in federal construction. The
New Deal not only left the state with many public buildings and
schools that are still in active use, but is conservation and
reclamation efforts also changed the lives of Tennesseans for
generations to come.
In Tennessee's New Deal Landscape, Caroll Van West examines over
250 historic sites created from 1933 to 1942: courthouses, post
offices, community buildings, schools, and museums, along with the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Cherokee National Forest,
and the dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He
describes the significant and impact of each project and provides
maps to guide readers to the sites described.
West discusses architectural styles that are often difficult to
identity, and his lively narrative points out some of the paradoxes
of New Deal projects-such as the proliferation of leisure parks
during the nation's darkest hours. In highlighting these projects,
he shows that Tennessee owes much not only to TVA but also to many
other agencies and individuals who left their mark on the landscape
through roads, levees, and reforested hillsides as well as
buildings.
An invaluable resource for travelers as well as scholars, this
book reveals a legacy of historic treasures that are well worth
preserving.
The Author: Carroll Van West is projects manager for the Center
of Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University. The
author of Tennessee's Historic Landscapes, he most recently edited
the volumes Tennessee History: The Land, the People, and the
Culture and the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. He
is also senior editor of the Tennessee Historic Quarterly.
Whether you are reading from your armchair or on the road, this
comprehensive tour guide to the state of Tennessee will inform you
about the incredible diversity of historic places from east to
west. Focusing on the built environment, this reference covers
architectural achievements from the state capitol in Nashville to
the earliest humble cabins in East Tennessee.
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