This newsletter was sent to all of the subscribers on Jim’s list (x) on Friday, February 1, 2019. Despite snow interruptions in East Tennessee (and much, much worse elsewhere), this has been a busy week of discoveries and revelations. Another volume in the Baseball Joe series has been uploaded — see the list below • Read More »
Tags: BBC, British Library, copyright, interviewing, Lyndon Johnson, Nashville, public domain, reporting, Robert Caro, Susan Spann, Texas Tribune, Will Thomas
“You can look it up.” If you remember anything about baseball in the 1950s (and fewer and fewer of us do), you would remember Casey Stengel’s famous conclusion to almost all of his long soliloquies to surrounding newsmen. Stengel was the manager of the New York Yankees, and his teams won pennant after pennant in • Read More »
Tags: Casey Stengel, high school journalism, high school journalists, Nashville, New York Yankees, Point Spread, Trinity Lane high school, Washington Post
The suffrage ladies may not be done with me. Those were the women who, between 1910 and 1920, affected the most profound change in the make-up of the electorate in the history of the Republic. In 2013, Seeing Suffrage was published by the University of Tennessee Press. The book was about the 1913 Washington suffrage • Read More »
Tags: 1913 Washington Suffrage Parade, Alice Paul, Nashville, protest, Securing Suffrage, Silent Sentinels, suffrage, Woodrow Wilson
Josephine Pearson, the leader of the antisuffragists in Nashville in the summer of 1920, was an education and accomplished woman who has been largely ignored in favor of the winners of the battle.
Tags: antisuffrage, Nashville, suffrage, women's suffrage