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Tennessee Main Street Program 24 Jun 2010 | 10:04 pm
The Tennessee Main Street Program grew out of a late-1970s national effort to revitalize historic business districts in American small towns and cities. The National Trust for Historic Preservation,.....
Freed House 24 Jun 2010 | 09:44 pm
The Freed House is a Victorian-style, upright-and-wing house located east of the courthouse square in Trenton in Gibson County. Julius Freed, a German Jewish merchant, constructed the house from 187.....
David Halberstam 24 Jun 2010 | 07:30 pm
David Halberstam was a nationally significant late-twentieth-century journalist and writer, who chronicled the Nashville student movement during the early years of the Civil Rights movement in Tenne.....
Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association 24 Jun 2010 | 06:04 pm
Brentwood Academy v. TSSAA is a nationally significant court case that answers the question as to whether or not a high school athletic association can prohibit recruiting without violating a school.....
Beth Salem Presbyterian Church 23 Jun 2010 | 06:15 pm
At the junction of Tennessee Highway 30 and Watson Road near Athens in McMinn County stands Beth Salem Presbyterian Church. The 1920s-era church, its adjoining cemetery, and kitchen pavilion are the.....
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services 6 Jan 2010 | 12:46 am
East Tennessee State University's Center for Appalachian Studies and Services is a Tennessee Center of Excellence established in 1984 during the administration of Governor Lamar Alexander. The .....
Zion College 5 Jan 2010 | 10:47 pm
Zion College, later known as Chattanooga City College, was founded in the white Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga in 1947 as a Bible institute for training African American ministers and chu...
Charles K. Wolfe 5 Jan 2010 | 10:37 pm
Charles Keith Wolfe, English professor at Middle Tennessee State University, music scholar, and highly published author, was born on August 14, 1943, in Sedalia, Missouri. The eldest of two boys born ...
Tennessee Cable Television Networks 5 Jan 2010 | 10:34 pm
The cable television industry in Tennessee, represented by several different networks, has increased the visibility of the state and positioned it as a culturally relevant and important part of the Am...
Thomas Washington Talley 5 Jan 2010 | 10:31 pm
Thomas Washington Talley, chemistry professor at Fisk University and pioneer African American folklorist, was born on October 9, 1870, in Shelbyville, Tennessee. One of nine surviving children born to...
