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Scope and content: A variety of materials relating to Nashville and Tennessee celebrations of the American Revolution Bicentennial, compiled and collected by staff of the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library. Materials span from ca. 1973 to 1977. Nashville newspaper clippings comprise approximately one half of the collection. A small quantity of material consists of items related to specific activities and initiatives undertaken...
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"A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to ObamacareIn 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the proportion of residents with health insurance and curtail cost increases. It was guided by principles that nearly match those that guided the creation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare....
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Abstract: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews.
Scope and content: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews, most dating from...
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Abstract: The Larry Romans Papers reveal a wealth of information about the 1990s in relation to LGBTQ culture, activism, acceptance, and politics, on a national scale and, especially, in Nashville, Tenn. They allude to the hardships faced in political organization and mobilization, and they starkly illustrate how different that process has become in the early 21st century.
Scope and content: Administrative records of the Nashville, Tenn. organization,...
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Abstract: Research notes, audio cassettes and VHS video tapes, periodicals and other items collected by country music historian Bob Pinson. The collection's main focus is material related to Hank Williams, including his day to day performance and recording itinerary, and the Grand Ole Opry, specifically Opry performances that were part of the Armed Forces Radio Services broadcast, primarily from the 1940s and 1950s.
Scope and Content: The Bob Pinson...
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Scope and content: The Franklyn McCord Papers span the time frame of 1862-1984, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940-1979. Most items relate to Frank McCord's interest in Confederate, Civil War, and Tennessee history, and include some materials relating to or written by his second wife, Margaret, who shared his interests. Materials consist of essays, photographs, and a variety of other materials such as correspondence, scrapbooks of news...
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Scope and content: Radio scripts for the "Ham and Eg" (sometimes spelled Egg) show; the "Ape and Ex" show (sponsored by Apex Oil Co.) and one script entitled "The Malones Never Quit." The first two programs are comedies with characters intended to be African-American, who speak in a caricature of black dialect. The third program is a drama about a district attorney who fights gangsters, his father who is a railroad engineer, and the son's love interest....
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Scope and content: The Henry C. Hibbs Papers include approximately 75 cubic feet of materials that document his life and career as a leading architect in Nashville and the South. The collection dates from 1882 to ca. 1988 and contains a variety of materials on the history of Nashville during the first half of the twentieth century. Photographs of Nashville buildings like the American National Bank, the American Trust building, the City Market House,...
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