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Fall 2011

The following program will be held at the Fort Negley Visitor Center at 1100 Fort Negley Boulevard in Nashville, TN at 5 p.m.

Series Launch for Tennessee In the Civil War: The Best of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly

November 3, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Carroll Van West
                Series Editor for Tennessee In the Civil War
                Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University
                Director, Center for Historic Preservation at MTSU
                Director, Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area


Tennessee In the Civil War is a twelve-volume series which will reprint more than 400 articles from the Tennessee Historical Quarterly between 2011-2015. First in the series is The Civil War In Tennessee. Other titles will examine great battles, controversial leaders, first hand accounts, occupation, experiences on the homefront, women's roles, the triumph of African Americans, and the legacy of the Civil War. The series is an official project of the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.

RSVP for the Series Launch talk by Dr. Carroll Van West to membership@tennesseehistory.org.

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From the editor:

"In the midst of the greatest war the world has yet experienced, the Tennessee Historical Society in 1942 launched a new quarterly devoted to the state’s history. Since then, the THQ has published nearly 400 articles that addressed either directly or indirectly the people, events, institutions, and historical patterns that shaped the state’s Civil War experience.

From its beginning the Tennessee Historical Quarterly has taken a comprehensive view of the Civil War era, a pattern that exemplifies the best scholarship about the war published into the twenty-first century. The THQ blends the work of established professors with new research from their graduate students along with the solid work of a significant non-academic history world.

Over the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Tennessee Historical Society will publish a series of books from these seventy years of research, ranging from such topics as major battles and leaders to the questions of life on the Tennessee homefront during the war, the role of slavery, the impact of occupation, and the promise and difficulties of emancipation and Reconstruction.

This first volume and namesake of the series, Tennessee in the Civil War, overviews the entire wartime experience across the breath of the Tennessee landscape, from battlefields to contraband camps, as it also reviews the range of research and scholarship used to bring those stories to the printed page.

Memory, identity, emancipation, occupation, warfare, common soldiers—these were themes most often found in the THQ articles on the Civil War. My hope is that this volume of articles serves as a call to the current and next generation of historians to continue to explore the Civil War era, the time that changed everything in Tennessee."

—Carroll Van West, Series Editor

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event or you may purchase a copy by clicking on the "Buy Now" button below.


Click here to learn more about the Tennessee in the Civil War: The Best of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly series.


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