Tennessee Documentary History 1796-1850

 

 

Listed Below are a few of the primary Library of Congress Subject Headings related to this project:

Tennessee

Tennessee - Antiquities-
Tennessee - Description and Travel
Tennessee - History
Tennessee - Revolution, 1775-1783
Tennessee - Civil War, 1861-1865
Tennessee - Campaigns
Tennessee, East
Tennessee, Middle
Tennessee, West
Tennessee Militiamen, Execution of 1815
Tennessee River
Tennessee River Valley

Native Americans

Indians of North America; Indian Land Transfers; Indians of North America - Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Five Civilized Tribes
Cherokee Indians
Chickasaw Indians
Choctaw Indians
Creek Indians; Creek War, 1813-1814; Creek War, 1836
Seminole Indians; Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818; Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
Trail of Tears, 1838

 

Bibliography/Reading Resources

Abernethy, Thomas P. From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee: A Study in Frontier Democracy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1932

Arnow, Harriette Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland. New York: Macmillan, 1960.

---. Flowering of the Cumberland. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Atkins, Jonathan M. Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press 1997.

Bergeron, Paul H. Antebellum Politics in Tennessee. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.

---. Paths of the Past, Tennessee, 1770-1970. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

Bergeron, Paul H., Stephen V. Ash, Jeanette Keith. Tennesseans and Their History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

Caruso, John Anthony. The Appalachian Frontier: America's First Surge Westward. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1959.

Davidson, Donald. The Tennessee: The Old River: From Frontier to Secession. New York: Rinehart, 1946.

Driver, Carl. John Sevier: Pioneer of the Old Southwest. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1932.

Dunn, Durwood. An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South: Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

Durham, Walter T. Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796. Piney Flats, TN: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990.

Goodstein, Anita Shafer. Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1989

Henderson, Archibald. The Conquest of the Old Southwest. New York: Century, 1920.

Lamon, Lester C. Blacks in Tennessee, 1791-1970. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.

Masterson, William H. William Blount. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1954.

Mooney, Chase C. Slavery in Tennessee. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.

Patten, Cartter. A Tennessee Chronicle. 1953.

Posey, Walter B. Frontier Mission: A History of Religion West of the Southern Appalachians to 1861. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1966.

Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of the American Empire, 1767-1821. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

---. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.

Satz, Ronald N. Tennessee's Indian Peoples: From White Contact to Removal, 1540-1840. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1945.

Sellers, Charles G. James K. Polk: Jacksonian, 1795-1843. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.

Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. The Tennessee Historical Society, Carroll Van West, Editor-in-Chief. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.

Williams, Samuel Cole. History of the Lost State of Franklin. Johnson City, TN: The Watauga Press, 1924.

---. Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540-1800. Johnson City, TN: The Watauga Press, 1928.

---. Tennessee During the Revolutionary War. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1944.

Winters, Donald L. Tennessee Farming, Tennessee Farmers: Antebellum Agriculture in the Upper South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

 

 

 
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