Secret grocery store
World War II created numerous “boomtowns” associated with the expanding shipbuilding, armaments, and aircraft industries. There were also “secret cities”...
Senator Sam Houston of Texas, 29th Congress
Sam Houston grew up in Tennessee and served in the U.S. Congress as a Representative. He eventually became Governor of Tennessee. Houston later moved to Texas and...
Tennessee approves
This is a statement, signed by the Governor of Tennessee in 1920, verifying that the state legislature ratified the 19th Amendment proposed by the U.S. Congress....
Terms of agreement
Richard and Mary, former slaves, were hired by James Mitchell to labor on the land and perform any other labor that Mitchell deemed necessary.
The 19th Amendment
This Congressional resolution, which proposed extending the right to vote to women, became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state...
United at Last
While many slave couples formed lasting bonds during their enslavement, slave marriages had no legal foundation or protection. The abolishment of slavery not only...
Virginians fear Union raiders
Virginia and Tennessee both joined the Confederacy. And both states held sizable numbers of Union supporters, especially in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and...