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Anderson, William Robert

William R. Anderson, U.S. Navy captain and congressman, is best known as the commander of the submarine USS Nautilus during the first underwater crossing of the North Pole in 1958. Anderson was born on June 17, 1921, in the Sycamore…

Andrew Jackson Slideshow

Andrew Jackson Slideshow

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson, portrait by William B. Cooper.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Andrew Johnson s Tailor Shop. Johnson worked as a tailor before making his name in the political world. He hired people to read to him as he worked, and his shop soon became a popular meeting place for local people to visit and debate.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

The Andrew Johnson Homestead is part of the National Park Service system and is open daily for tours.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

This marker stands over the graves of Andrew and Eliza Johnson.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville honors the life and work of the nation's seventeenth president and preserves his two homes, tailor shop, and grave site. The National Park Service administers the site, which includes a visitor center…

Andrews v. State

The case of Andrews v. State is the single most important case regarding the right to bear arms under the Tennessee State Constitution. Article I, Section 26 of the constitution provides "That the citizens of this State have a right…

Ann Philips Rogers Grundy

Ann Phillips Rogers Grundy.

Anne Dallas Dudley

Anne Dallas Dudley during her term as president of the Tennessee Suffrage Association.

Appalachian Decorative Arts

The early decorative arts of Appalachia were the hand-pieced quilts, handwoven coverlets, split oak egg baskets, and other "necessary" crafts once common to every remote household. In the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, art was often the result of need.…

Appalachian Exposition of 1910

The Appalachian Exposition of 1910 was held in Knoxville from September 12 to October 12, 1910. Although large expositions were commonplace at the turn of the century, and county, regional, and state agricultural fairs predated this Knoxville convention, the Appalachian…

Appalachian Exposition Of 1910

Administration building at the Appalachian Exposition.

Appalachian Regional Commission

In the 1960s, much of the Appalachian region lagged behind the rest of the nation in income, educational attainment, access to health care, and efficient transportation. The Council of Appalachian Governors, an ad hoc group of nine governors of the…

Appalachian Trail

The Appalachian Trail is a continuous marked footpath extending 2,140 miles through fourteen states from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to Katahdin, Maine. The route crosses eight national forests, eight units of the national park system, and sixty state parks and wildlife…

Archaic Period

The Archaic in Tennessee is the longest defined prehistoric cultural period, spanning approximately seven thousand years. The beginning of the Archaic Period roughly coincides with the Pleistocene/Holocene glacial boundary at about ten thousand years ago. The period ends with the…

Armfield, John

John Armfield, slave trader and businessman, descended from North Carolina Quakers who were Loyalists during the American Revolution. While still a boy, Armfield ran away from home, vowing not to return until he had acquired more wealth than his father,…

Army of Tennessee

The Army of Tennessee, known by various names in the course of its existence, was the Confederacy's principal army on the western front. From the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River, this force fought most of the major battles that…

Arnell, Samuel Mayes

Reconstruction legislator and congressman Samuel M. Arnell was born at Zion Settlement in Maury County on May 3, 1833. After attending Amherst College, Arnell returned to Tennessee, studied law, and practiced in Columbia. Although a slaveholder, Arnell sided with the…

Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC)

Located on thirty-nine thousand wooded acres in Coffee and Franklin Counties, AEDC is the world's most diverse complex of aerospace ground simulation test facilities and one of the most unusual U.S. Air Force installations. Approximately three thousand civilian scientists and…

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