Making Music Jump Jim Crow 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.
April 2016
Isham Harris | Shades of Gray and Blue
The Persistence of Memory Monuments and Cemeteries 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.
Dickinson Residence | Shades of Gray and Blue
Taking Care of Business Perez Dickinson 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.
John T. Wilder’s Boots | Shades of Gray and Blue
Building a Future Gates P. Thruston 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.
Civil War Commemoration at the Tennessee Centennial | Shades of Gray and Blue
The 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, organized to celebrate the State of Tennessee’s 100th birthday, also featured several commemorations of the Civil War. Exhibits featured on the midway, known as Vanity Fair, included reproductions of the log cabin birthplaces of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, an “Old Plantation,” and The General, the locomotive famously commandeered by […]
Lucknow | Shades of Gray and Blue
Taking Care of Business Perez Dickinson 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 Otey | Shades of Gray and Blue
Holding Fast to Beauty Education of Young Women 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.
John L. Clem | Shades of Gray and Blue
Making Music Sylvester Winchester 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.
Angola Plantation | Shades of Gray and Blue
Taking Care of Business Adelicia Acklen 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.
John Pope | Shades of Gray and Blue
In antebellum Memphis, Colonel John Pope (1794-1865) was one of the most successful and distinguished men in the cotton business. After studying law at Yale University and serving in the Alabama legislature, he had become increasingly interested in agriculture. By the 1850s he owned farms in the Memphis area totaling 900 acres. Pope worked diligently […]
Genevieve Morgan Williams | Shades of Gray and Blue
Taking Care of Business John Pope 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.
Balm for the Weary | Shades of Gray and Blue
Holding Fast to Beauty Education of Young Women Capturing the Flag Souveniring 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.
Education of Young Women | Shades of Gray and Blue
Frances Matilda Batey, the maker of this sampler, was a graduate of Mr. and Mrs. Tolbert Fanning’s Franklin College, a girls’ academy founded in 1837 in Nashville, Tennessee. Academies were private schools serving a combination of day students and boarding students. Although samplers were usually made by school girls aged six to fifteen at female […]