Tennessee, a Short HistoryTennessee has a fascinating history, animated by such colorful personalities as Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston, and many distinguished statesmen, three of whom have served as president of the United States. All are portrayed in this carefully researched volume, which examines Tennessee's past and suggests new directions for the state's future. An updated version of the 1981 edition, Tennessee: A Short History, traces the development of the Volunteer State from its beginnings to the present. Starting with the prehistoric Indians, the author recounts the problems incident to statehood, deals with the traumatic developments of the nineteenth century, including the Civil War and its aftermath, and discusses the multiple changes in the social, cultural, political, and economic structure of Tennessee in the twentieth century. This one-volume work will serve as a primary sourcebook for the state's history for many years to come. Robert E. Corlew is recently retired as vice-president for academic affairs at Middle Tennessee State University, where his teaching focused upon the history of Tennessee. He was coauthor, along with the late professors Stanley J. Folmsbee and Enoch L. Mitchell, of the two-volume History of Tennessee (1960), upon which the first edition of Tennessee: A Short History was based. |
Contents
The Land and Its Early Inhabitants | 3 |
Europeans Struggle for Control | 25 |
Permanent Settlements Are Established | 38 |
The Revolution in the Tennessee Country | 59 |
The State of Franklin | 72 |
The Southwest Territory Becomes the Sixteenth State | 85 |
Social and Economic Life on the Frontier | 106 |
The Young State 17961821 | 126 |
Reconstruction | 328 |
Postwar Recovery | 347 |
A Troubled Decade 18861896 | 372 |
Tennessee in the Gilded Age | 394 |
Democrats and Prohibition 18991911 | 415 |
Reform and War 19111923 | 433 |
Prosperity Depression and TVA 19231937 | 453 |
Turbulent Times 19371953 | 480 |
The Indians Expulsion and Public Lands | 145 |
A Harbinger of Jacksonian Democracy | 159 |
The Rise of the Whigs | 178 |
Transportation and Internal Improvements | 197 |
Slavery and the Free Negro | 209 |
Economic Social and Cultural Development at MidNineteenth Century | 227 |
Party Politics 18391859 | 254 |
Storm Clouds | 284 |
The Civil War in Tennessee | 302 |
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Tennessee: A Short History Stanley John Folmsbee,Robert Ewing Corlew,Enoch L. Mitchell Snippet view - 1969 |
Tennessee: A Short History Stanley John Folmsbee,Robert Ewing Corlew,Enoch L. Mitchell Snippet view - 1969 |
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