Carroll County Historical Society and Gordon Browning Museum

Description

The Society operates the Gordon Browning Museum, a publicly-supported museum and repository for documents, images, and artifacts that represent the history and culture of Carroll County, Tennessee. The museum is named in honor of the two-time Governor of the State of Tennessee Gordon Browning and contains numerous papers, photographs, and personal effects of the former governor.

The museum offers exhibits and research library access.

Site provides very few specifics about the offerings of the museum.

Governor John Sevier Home [TN]

Description

John Sevier (1745-1815), early pioneer, Indian fighter, governor of the failed State of Franklin, and first governor of Tennessee, built a plantation home, which he called Marble Springs, when he came to the state capital, Knoxville, in 1796. The site had been a way station for travelers along the road to Knoxville. He and his wife, Bonny Kate, lived at Marble Springs until his death. The only original building, the two-story main cabin, has been restored and furnished with Sevier family items and other frontier pieces. Additions include a kitchen, a loom house, a smokehouse, a spring house, and a barn. The Walker Cabin, circa 1830, has been moved to the site and features artifacts and a video presentation.

A second website for the site can be found here.

The site offers a short film, tours, workshops, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

War of Invasion, War of Liberation: Occupied Nashville and the Civil War and Emancipation in the Upper South

Description

No details available.

Contact name
Hunt, Robert
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Middle Tennessee State University
Phone number
615-898-5519
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

The Battlefield Experience

Description

In this workshop, teachers will get a chance to tour the Stones River National Battlefield and discuss ways to use the park's resources to help students master curriculum standards in multiple disciplines.

Contact name
McKay, John
Sponsoring Organization
Stones River National Battlefield
Phone number
615-893-9501
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Contact Title
Education Coordinator
Duration
Four hours

War of Invasion, War of Liberation: Occupied Nashville and the Civil War and Emancipation in the Upper South

Description

No details available.

Contact name
Hunt, Robert
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Middle Tennessee State University
Phone number
615-898-5519
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Duration
Six days
End Date

Tennessee 4 Me

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Tennessee teachers, looking for a state-specific overview of U.S. history? Three years in the making, this project of the Tennessee State Museum outlines Tennessee state history from pre-history to the present day. Each of nine chronological sections—"First Tennesseans," "Indians & Cultural Encounters," "Frontier," "Age of Jackson," "Civil War & Reconstruction," "Confronting the Modern Era," "Depression & WWII," "Civil Rights/Cold War," and "Information Revolution"—begins with an introductory essay on the time period. Two to three subsections per time period offer essays on daily life and work, military and political history, civil rights issues, and other topics; users can click down from each subsection to further
essays on even more specific topics.

Links within the essays lead to extracts from primary sources (such as the journal of early explorer Casper Mansker or a recipe for soap), answers to "Dig Deeper" historical questions, interactive activities (including a Chart of Traditional Cherokee Kinships), and related articles and sources on other websites. A slideshow of enlargeable images of primary sources (artifacts and documents) accompanies most essays, and several essays include embedded audio clips.

Each time period includes a "Teacher's Page" (linked from the bottom of the section's top essay), with lessons and extension activities. Thirty-seven lessons and three extension activities are currently live on the site; broken links may be repaired in future.

"Site Search," in the left-hand sidebar by each essay, allows full searching of the site's content.