Remembering Nashville
By the mid-nineteenth century, the city of Nashville was a vibrant cultural center of the South. Through the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars, and into the modern era, Nashville has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.
With a selection of fine historic images from her bestselling book, Historic Photos of Nashville, Jan Duke provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Nashville. This volume, Remembering Nashville, captures this journey through still photography from the finest archives of city, state, and private collections. From the Civil War, to the Centennial Exposition and the building of a modern metropolis, Remembering Nashville follows life, government, education, and events throughout Nashville’s history. The book captures unique and rare scenes through more than 130 historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
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Book details
- Text by
- Jan Duke
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Nashville history · Tennessee history · historic photography · Southern United States · Civil War · local history · American cities
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368588
About the author
JAN DUKE is a writer and historian based in Cheatham County, outside Nashville, Tennessee, whose published work spans articles, websites, and books on Nashville history. Her recent books include Remembering Nashville and Historic Photos of Nashville.
Duke served as editor of nashville.about.com, an award-winning website, and has written for La Campana del Sur, Ireland’s Own magazine, and the University of Regensburg, Germany.
Duke is a lifetime member of the Cheatham County Historical Society and of First Families of Tennessee, a project of the East Tennessee Historical Society documenting the state’s earliest residents prior to statehood in 1796.
Jan lives in Cheatham County, outside Nashville, Tennessee.