ETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources, and Student Activities

Alvin C. York

Key Words: Alvin C. York, World War I, Medal of Honor

Anne Dallas Dudley

Key Words:  Suffrage, 19th amendment

 Austin Peay's influence on roads and schools in Tennessee

Key Words:  Austin Peay, road building, education reform

Clarence Saunders and David Crosthwait

Key Words:  Clarence Saunders,David Crosthwait, Rockefeller Center, Piggly Wiggly, Memphis, Grocery store

Coal Creek War

Key Words:Convict labor, Coal Creek, Mining, Strike

Harry T. Burn and the Perfect 36

 Key Words:  Harry T. Burn, Feb Burn, Suffrage, 19th Amendment, Perfect 36, A.H. Roberts

Ida B. Wells

Key Words: Ida B. Wells, lynching, segregation

Josephine Pearson

Key Words: Suffrage, Anti-suffrage, 19th Amendment

Lawrence Tyson

Key Words: Lawerence Tyson, World War I, airplanes

Radio WSM and the Grand Old Opry

Key Words: Radio WSM, Grand Ole Opry, County Music, Nashville, Carter Family

Randolph Miller

Key Words:  Randolph Miller, Segregation, Chattanooga

Scopes Trial

Key Words:  John Scopes, Evolution, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Monkey Trial, Dayton TN.

Tennessee in the Era of Jim Crow Teacher Packet

Key Words: Jim Crow,  NAACP, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell

 The Temperance Movement in Tennessee

Key Words:  temperance, prohibition, Edward Carmack, Ed Crump

William Christopher "W.C." Handy, Bessie Smith and the Birth of Memphis Blues

Key Words:  W.C. Handy, Memphis, Blues, Bessie Smith

Alvin C. York

Birdwell, Michael E. “Old Hickory and the Hindenburg Line: The 30^th Division in World War I.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 74 (2002): 1-23.

Lillard, Stewart. “Highway 30: The David Wiley Lillard Memorial Highway.” Tennessee Ancestors 26, no. 3 (December 2010): 156-169

Newman, John J. “Knox County and East Tennessee World War I Draft Registration Cards.” Tennessee Ancestors 18, no. 3 (December 2002): 202-216.

Coal Creek War

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.

Harry T. Burn and the Perfect 36

Ida B. Wells

Lakin, Matthew. “ ‘A Dark Night’: The Knoxville Race Riot of 1919.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 72 (2000): 1-29.

Lamon, Lester C. “Tennessee Race Relations and the Knoxville Riot of 1919.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 41 (1969): 67-85.

Scopes Trial

Eigelsbach, William B. and Jamie Sue Linder. “ ‘If Not the People Who?’: Prosecution Correspondence Preparatory to the Scopes Trial.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 70 (1998): 81-96. (Part 1)

Eigelsbach, William B. and Jamie Sue Linder. “ ‘If Not the People Who?’: Prosecution Correspondence Preparatory to the Scopes Trial.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 70 (1998): 81-96. (Part 2)

Additional Related Articles

“A Good Templar’s ‘Journal.’” Ed. by Grace Leah and Charles Z. Roettger. The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 31 (1959): 83-94.

"A Spanish-American War Letter.” Tennessee Ancestors 13, no. 3 (December 1997): 203-205.

Govan, Gilbert E. “The Solid South?” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 12 (1940): 3-15.

Leah, Grace. “Tennessee Temperance Activities, 1870-1899.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 21 (1949): 52-68.

Link, Arthur S. “Democratic Politics and the Presidential Campaign of 1912 in Tennessee.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 18 (1946): 107-130.

Turpie, David C. “ ‘Opposition to President McKinley’s Administration is the Real Motive’: Henry R. Gibson’s 1899 Speech on Imperialism and the Hypocrisy of Southern Democrats.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 85 (2013): 108-122.

Wolfe, Margaret Ripley. “Bootleggers, Drummers, and National Defense: Sideshow to Reform in Tennessee, 1915-1920.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 49 (1977): 77-92.