Offers historical and travel information for Tennessee, including attractions, sights, accommodations, restaurants, and activities.
Nashville resident Margaret Littman gives readers an insider's look at the Volunteer State, from the civil war battlefields of Middle Tennessee to Knoxville's World's Fair Park. To help travelers plan their trip, Littman provides unique trip itinerary suggestions, including Down…
Offers historical and travel information for Tennessee, including attractions, sights, accommodations, restaurants, and activities.
"Explore the park's mountain vistas, clear-running waterways, old-growth trees, flowering fields, watchable wildlife, winding trails, and historical sites through stunning photography and helpful information. Ultimate Smokies will appeal to travelers and armchair tourists alike,…
Lonely Planet Eastern USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get active underwater in Florida Keys, hit the streets of New York City, or watch leaves change color in New England; all with your …
Lonely Planet Eastern USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get active underwater in Florida Keys, hit the streets of New York City, or watch leaves change color in New England; all with your …
Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes be…
In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never seen again. Six months later, a female skeleton was found on a wooded lakeshore in a neighboring county. The bones were consistent with those of the missing woman, and one of Patterson's daughte…
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque. Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that pumbs the depths of human d…
The Civil War
by Time-Life Books, Bailey, Ronald H., Josephy, Alvin M., Goolrick, William K., Davis, William C., Clark, Champ, Chaitin, Peter, Channing, Steven A., Korn, Jerry, Jaynes, Gregory, Murphy, Richard W., Nevin, David, Lewis, Thomas A., Street, James, Robertson, James I., Jackson, Donald Dale