Capturing the Flag Antoinette Polk A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
October 2015
Jump Jim Crow | Shades of Gray and Blue
This child’s alphabet plate depicts the character of Jim Crow, introduced in 1828 by minstrel-show entertainer T. D. “Daddy” Rice. Performing in blackface, Rice danced a crazy jig and sang a song called “Jump Jim Crow,” which ended in the chorus: Wheel about and turn about and jump just so, Every time we wheel about […]
Fisk Map of Properties | Shades of Gray and Blue
Making Music Jubilee Singers Building a Future McKissacks A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
St. John Guards Flag | Shades of Gray and Blue
Capturing the Flag Antoinette Polk A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Dog Effigy Pot | Shades of Gray and Blue
Building a Future Gates P. Thruston A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Bust of James Peck Thomas | Shades of Gray and Blue
Building a Future McKissacks A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Fist Slave Charm | Shades of Gray and Blue
Building a Future McKissacks Walking a Fine Line Richard Poynor A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
McKinney vs United States | Shades of Gray and Blue
Building a Future McKissacks A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Wessyngton | Shades of Gray and Blue
The outbreak of the Civil War brought drastic changes to the lives of the nearly 300 African Americans enslaved on Wessyngton Plantation. In 1860 Wessyngton was the largest tobacco plantation in America and held the largest enslaved population in Tennessee. For generations the slaves there had secretly prayed for their freedom. In February 1862, Nashville […]
Garden Plan of the Pillars | Shades of Gray and Blue
Holding Fast to Beauty Sarah Polk A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Fort Negley, Nashville, Tenn. | Shades of Gray and Blue
Building a Future McKissacks Wessyngton A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Susan Brownlow Sawyers Boynton | Shades of Gray and Blue
Capturing the Flag Susan Brownlow A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Bills Cottage | Shades of Gray and Blue
Holding Fast to Beauty Sarah Polk A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
James Patton Brownlow | Shades of Gray and Blue
Capturing the Flag Susan Brownlow A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.