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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.
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.
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. 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.
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. 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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