ETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources and Student Activities

1897 Centennial Exposition

Key Words: Centennial, Nashville, Parthenon, Franklin Statehouse

Mining, Railroads and Industrialization

Key Words:  Mining, Convict Labor, Railroads, Cumberland Plataeu, Coca-Cola, Chattanooga

1897 Centennial Exposition

Hardy, William E. “Beneath the Gilding: Knoxville’s Million Dollar Fire of 1897 and Fire Safety Reform in the Marble City.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 85 (2013): 24-47.

Mining Railroads and Industrialization

Holly, J. Fred. “The Co-operative Town Company of Tennessee: A Case Study of Planned Economic Development.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 36 (1964): 56-69.

Hutson, A.C., Jr. “The Coal Miners’ Insurrections of 1891 in Anderson County, Tennessee.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 7 (1935): 103-121.

Hutson, A.C., Jr. “The Overthrow of the Convict Lease System” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 8 (1936): 82-103.

Lambert, Robert S. “Logging on Little River, 1890-1940.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 33 (1961): 32-42.

Moore, William H. “Preoccupied Paternalism: The Roane Iron Company in Her Company Town – Rockwood, Tennessee.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 39 (1967): 56-70.

Immigration

Lillard, Stewart and Sanford T. Winer. “Hyman Winer, Jewish Peddler in Meigs County, Tennessee.” Tennessee Ancestors 25, no. 2 (August 2009): 91-100.

Additional Related Articles:

Campbell, Claude A. “Branch Banking in Tennessee Since the Civil War.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 12 (1940): 84-99.

Queener, Verton M. “The East Tennessee Republicans as a Minority Party, 1870-1896.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 15 (1943): 49-73.

Sharp, J.A. “The Farmers’ Alliance and the People’s Party in Tennessee.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 10 (1938): 91-113.

“Tennessee Gallery: Claiborne County in Old Photographs.” Tennessee Ancestors 4, no. 3 (December 1988): 239-243.

“Tennessee Gallery Transportation from a By-Gone Age.” Tennessee Ancestors 5, no. 2 (August 1989):120-122.

Wheeler, William Bruce and Michael J. McDonald. “The Communities of East Tennessee, 1850-1940: An Interpretive Overview.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 58 & 59 (1986-87): 3-38.

Wolfe, Margaret Ripley. “The Appalachian Reality: Ethnic and Class Diversity.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 52 & 53 (1980-81): 40-60.