1 Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events 2013 NHD Theme Tennessee History Topics
Civil Rights/Race Relations The Ryman: From Tabernacle to Auditorium Freedmen's Bureau in Tennessee: A Turning Point in Civil Rights See Rock City: Tourism in Southeast Tennessee The Rosenwald Schools in Tennessee: A Turning Point in Civil From Front Porch to the Recording Studio: The Carter Family Rights The Bristol Sessions: The Birthplace of County Music Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial University’s Freedom Riders The Bristol Sessions: Turning Music into a Commodity The Clinton Twelve: Desegregating Tennessee’s Schools Sun Record Company: Where Rock and Roll was Born Myles Horton and the Highlander School WSM: Radio and the Marketing of Southern Traditional Music The Memphis Riot of 1866 Elvis Presley: Hips that Shook Music The Knoxville Riot of 1919 Jim Thompson: Knoxville’s Landmark Photographer The Ku Klux Klan Moonshine: The Fuel of NASCAR Memphis Sanitation Strike Tent City: The Civil Rights Struggle in Fayette County, Tennessee Environment The Nashville Sit-Ins Reelfoot Lake: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812 Columbia Race Riot of 1946 Reelfoot Lake: When the Mississippi River Turned on Itself Manumission Society of Tennessee and the Anti-Slavery Reform Reelfoot Lake: The Night Riders of 1908 Movement Halting Progress or Preserving Nature?: The Snail Darter and the Endangered Species Act Economic Development/Commerce/Agriculture Great Smoky Mountains National Park A New Way of Shopping: Piggly Wiggly Yellow Fever Epidemic in Memphis The New South: From Rural to Industrial Strip Mining and Mountain Top Removal King Cotton Jim Thompson: Knoxville Photographer and the Creation of the Tobacco Night Riders and the Black Patch War Great Smoky Mountains National Park Fed Ex Spring Hill: Saturn in Middle Tennessee Infrastructure R.H. Boyd and the National Baptist Publishing Board Cumberland Homesteads: New Deal Subsistence Community Kudzu The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933: The New Deal in The Agrarians Tennessee The Army Corps of Engineers: Public Works in Tennessee Education The General Education Bill of 1909 in Tennessee: Establishing Military “Normal” Training for Teachers Alvin C. York The Rosenwald Schools in Tennessee: A Turning Point in Creating the Volunteers: Tennesseans in the War of 1812 Education The Tennessee Maneuvers: Turning Middle Tennessee into The Scopes Trial Germany Fletchar Dresslar, George Peabody College for Teachers, and Camp Crossville: German and Italian Prisoners of War on the Rural School Reform Cumberland Plateau Settlement Schools in Tennessee The Chattanooga Campaign: The Union Wins Tennessee Kelly v. Board of Education: The Desegregation of Nashville John Sevier and The Battle of Kings Mountain Schools Peabody Education Fund: Teacher Training Schools in Tennessee Native Americans Revolutionary War Entertainment/The Arts/Culture Fort Mims and the Creek War Minnie Pearl: The Invention and Marketing of an Image Nickajack Expedition: Conflict in the Cumberland Settlements Dolly Parton: The Invention and Marketing of an Image Dragging Canoe and Chickamauga: The Treaty of Sycamore The Ryman Auditorium: A Turning Point in Historic Preservation Shoals
2 Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events 2013 NHD Theme Tennessee History Topics
Indian Removal Act of 1830 The Memphis-Nashville-Bristol Highway: Tennessee's First State Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga Road The Treaty of New Echota: Turning Point in Native America- The Avery Trace: The Road to Nashville Anglo Relations The Steamboat Age in Tennessee Attakullakulla, the Overhill Cherokees, and Colonial Governments The Trace: Nashville to Natchez Fort Loudon R.H. Boyd and Union Transport Company
Politics and Reform Movements Research Tennessee’s War of the Roses: Robert Love Taylor and Alfred A. The Manhattan Project: “The Public in the Dark” Taylor The Gorgeous Hussy: Andrew Jackson and the Defense of Peggy People Eaton Andrew Jackson The Greeneville Convention of 1861: Unionist Trapped in a Nancy Ward Secessionist State James K. Polk The Dangerous State of Franklin Sequoyah The Trail of Tears Morris Frank Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction in Tennessee David Crockett: “You Can All Go to Hell; I’m Going to Texas” Succeeding from the Confederacy: Unionist Sympathies in East Sam Houston Tennessee Cordell Hull Elihu Embree, the Emancipator, and Abolition in Tennessee Admiral David Farragut Andrew Johnson and Emancipation in Tennessee Commander William R. Anderson and the USS Nautilus Prison Reform in Tennessee Charles S. Johnson Postmaster General Cave Johnson and Postal Reform Kelly Miller Smith Lide Smith Meriwether and W.C.T.U. James Lawson William Carroll and Prison Reform Z. Alexander Looby The Election of 1844 and the Mexican-American War Diane Nash The Election of 1844: Westward Expansion President James K. Polk, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, and Events the Coming of the Civil War Scopes Trial Coal Creek War TVA Act The Elizabethton Textile Mill Strike Manhattan Project The Harriman Hosiery Mills Strike Tennessee Secession Nineteenth Amendment Ratification Preservation Creek War The Ladies’ Hermitage Association: A Turning Point in Historic The Indian Removal Act of 1830: The Trail of Tears Preservation Battle of King’s Mountain The Works Progress Administration and Fort Negley Hernando de Soto Expedition
Religion Utopia Camp Meetings Thomas Hughes and Ruby, Tennessee Cumberland Presbyterians Myles Horton and the Highlander Center Frances Wright and Nashoba, Tennessee Transportation The Dixie Highway System: The National Auto Trail System