(Note: There are scores of other important Nashville-related history books; adding to this list is an ongoing project. Some of these books are out of print, but all may be located in the Nashville Public Library or the Tennessee State Library and Archives.)
Adams, George Rollie, and Ralph Jerry Christian. Nashville: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co., 1980.
Andrew Jackson Slept Here: A Guide to Historical Markers in Nashville and Davidson County. Naashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1993.
Armistead, George H. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901. Nashville: TN Historical Society; Whippoorwill Publication, 1981.
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Flowering of the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. (Previously published New York: MacMillan, 1963)
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (Previously published, 1960)
An Aviation Adventure: A History of Aviation in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Nashville: Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, 2003.
Baird, James Oscar. The Life and Works of Charles Edgar Little. Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949.
Beasley, Paul. A Directory of Historical Markers--Nashville and Davidson County. Nashville: Retired Teachers Association, 1977.
Bucy, Carole Stanford, and Carol Farrar Kaplan. The Nashville City Cemetery: History Carved in Stone. Nashville: Nashville City Cemetery Association, 2000.
Caldwell, Mary French. Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Nashville: Ladies’ Hermitage Association, 1933.
Carey, Bill. Chancellors, Commodores, and Coeds: A History of Vanderbilt University. Knoxville: Clearbrook Press, 2003.
Carey, Bill. Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2000.
Carey, Bill. Master of the Big Board: The Life, Time, and Business of Jack Massey. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2005.
Carr, John. Early Times in Middle Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1857 [1958].
Coke, Fletch. Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Nashville: Episcopal Diocese of TN, 2004.
Coke, Fletch. The Hermitage Landscape: Before and After the 1998 Tornado. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 1999.
Conkin, Paul Keith. Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Cowan, Dakie Caldwell. Annie Was A Lady: A Biography of Annie Claybrooke Allison. Nashville: D.C. Cowan, 1985.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr., and Leland R. Johnson, eds. The First Presbyterian Church of Nashville: A Documentary History. Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1986.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr. Building of Nashville. Nashville, 1969.
Crouch, Arthur Weir, and Harry Dixon Claybrook. Our Ancestors Were Engineers. Nashville: America Society of Civil Engineers, 1976.
Crutchfield, James Andrew. Early Times in the Cumberland Valley: From Its Beginnings to 1800. Nashville: First American Bank, 1976.
Davenport, F. Garvin. Cultural Life in Nashville on the Eve of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
Davis, Louise Littleton. From Chicken House to the Moon. Nashville: Friends of the Metro Archives, 1998.
Davis, Louis Littleton. Nashville Tales. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1981.
Douglas, Byrd. Steamboatin' on the Cumberland. Nashville: Tennessee Book Co., 1961.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville since the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Drake, Doug, Jack Masters, and Bill Puryear. Founding of the Cumberland Settlements: The First Atlas, 1779-1804. Gallatin, TN: Warioto Press, 2009.
Duke, Jan. Historic Photos of Nashville. Nashville: Turner Pub. Co., 2005.
Durham, Walter T. Balie Peyton of Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
Durham, Walter T. Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796. Piney Flats, TN: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990.
Durham, Walter T. Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont: Politics and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2002.
Durham, Walter T. Nashville: The Occupied City. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 1985.
Durham, Walter T. Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1987.
Edwards, Amelia Whitsitt. Nashville Interiors: 1866 to 1920. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Egerton, John, and E. Thomas Wood. Nashville: An American Self-Portrait. Nashville: Beaten Biscuit Press, 2001.
Egerton, John. Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980. Nashville: PlusMedia, 1979.
Elliott, Lizzie Porterfield. Early History of Nashville. Nashville: Board of Education, 1911.
Faragher, Scott. Nashville in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Finger, John R. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Frank, Fedora Small. Beginnings on Market Street. Nashville: Frank, 1976.
Garden Study Club of Nashville. History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1964. (Previously published in 1936)
Goodspeed. Goodspeed’s General History of Tennessee. Nashville: C. & R. Elder Booksellers, 1973. (Previously published in 1887)
Goodstein, Anita Shafer. Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.
Gossett, Charmaine B. Captain Tom Ryman: His Life and Legacy. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2001.
Graham, Eleanor, ed. Nashville: A Short History and Selected Buildings. Nashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1974.
Graham, Eleanor, and Mary Glenn Hearne, eds. Nashville: Families and Homes. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1983.
Grant, Amy, and Karen Geary. Nashville: Hills of Harmony. Memphis: Towery Pub., 2001.
Guild, Jo. C. (Josephus Conn). Old Times in Tennessee. Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1878.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
Hawkins, Martin. A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press and Country Music Foundation Press, 2006.
Haywood, John. Civil and Political History of Tennessee. Nashville: Printed for W.H. Haywood, 1891 (exact reprint of the edition of 1823)
Hoobler, James A. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901: [Index of historical Sites]. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1984.
Hoobler, James A. Cities Under the Gun: Images of Occupied Nashville and Chattanooga. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1986.
Hoobler, James A. A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald. The Decisive Battle of Nashville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1956.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald The Hermitage: Home of Old Hickory. Richmond, Garrett & Massie, 1938.
Ingram, Martha. Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South Nashville, Tennessee. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
James, Marquis. The Life of Andrew Jackson. (Part 1: The Border Captain; Part 2: Portrait of a President.) New York: Garden City Pub., 1938.
Jennings, Thelma. The Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1850. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1980.
Johnson, Leland R. The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation. Nashville: Metro Nashville Board of Parks & Recreation, 1986.
Justi, Herman, ed. Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition: Opened May 1, and Closed October 30, 1897. Nashville: Brandon Printing Co., 1898.
Kaplan, Carol Farrar, and Livy I. Simpson. Remember the Ladies: Women of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: L.I. Simpson, 1995.
Karr, Steve, et al. Nashville Trivia. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Kelley, Sarah Foster. Children of Nashville: Lineages from James Robertson. Nashville: Blue & Gray Press, 1973.
Kreyling, Christine, et al. Classical Nashville: Athens of the South. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
Kyriakoudes, Louis M. The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003.
Larimore, Emma Page. The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning. Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1907.
Lauder, Kathy, and Mike Slate. "From Knickers to Body Stockings" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M. D. Slate, 2006.
Lawrence, Bobby. Tennessee Centennial: Nashville 1897. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1998.
Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Lovett, Bobby L. The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Lynch, Amy, and Margaret E. Dick. Nashville: Upbeat and Down to Business. Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, 1990.
Maiden, Lewis Smith. Highlights of the Nashville Theater, 1876-1890. New York: Vantage Press, 1979.
Masserano, Rose Marie. The Nashville Dominicans: A History of the Congregation of Saint Cecilia. Roslyn Heights, NY: Roth Publishing, 1985.
Matthews, Thomas Edwin. General James Robertson: Father of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1934.
May, Lynn E. Jr. The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, 1820-1970. Nashville: First Baptist Church, 1970.
McCague, James. The Cumberland. (Rivers of America Series) New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973.
McDaniel, Karina. Nashville Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2005.
McFerrin, John Berry. Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
McGaw, Robert A. The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictorial History. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1978.
Mims, Edwin. History of Vanderbilt University. Nashville: Vanderbilt University press, 1946.
Morton-Young, Tommie. Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
Nashville Public Library. Seven Early Churches of Nashville. Nashville: Elder’s Bookstoore, 1972.
Nashville Room Staff. Nashville: A Family Town. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1978.
Norman, Jack Sr. The Nashville I Knew. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1984.
Orr, Frank H, Ed. Notable Nashville Architecture, 1930 to 1980. Nashville: American Institute of Architects, 1989.
Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the end of the Eighteenth Century. Knoxville: Reprinted for the East TN Historical Society, 1967. (Previously published in 1853)
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power. New York: Norton, 1967.
Remini, Robert V. The Jacksonian Era. Arlington Heights, IL: H. Davidson, 1989.
Roseman, Jean. From Y to J: The Hundred-Year History of Nashville's Jewish Community Center. Nashville: Gordon Jewish Community Center, 2004.
Seigenthaler, John M., and Curtis Allen. Nashville: City of Note. Memphis: Towery Pub., 1997.
Sherman, Joe. A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville's Union Station. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Sherraden, Jim. Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.
Simbeck, Rob. Daughter of the Air: The Short Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
Simpson, John A. Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Simpson, John A. “The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie”: The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Simpson, John A. S.A. Cunningham and the Confederate Heritage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Slate, Mike, and Kathy Lauder. "The Confederate Twenty-Dollar Irony" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M.D. Slate, 2004.
Spinney, Robert G. World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.
Summerville, James. Colleagues on the Cumberland: A History of the Nashville Legal Profession. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1996.
Summerville, James. Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983.
Summerville, James. Nashville Medicine: A History. Birmingham: Association Publishing Co., 1999.
Summerville, James. The Carmack-Cooper Shooting. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 2000.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Tennessee Historical Markers. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1980.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1964.
Thomas, Jane Henry. Old Days in Nashville. Nashville: Charles Elder, 196?. (Reprint of the 1897 edition with an added historical sketch by J.G.M. Ramsey.)
Thompson, E.D. The Nashville Nostalgia Years. Nashville: Westview Publishing Co., 2005.
Waller, William. Nashville in the 1890's. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.
Waller, William. Nashville, 1900-1910. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
Warshauer, Matthew. Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
West, Carroll Van, ed., et al. A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
West, Carroll Van. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society; Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
West, Earl Irvin. The Life and Times of David Lipscomb. Henderson, TN: Religious Book Service, 1954.
Wheeler, Mary Bray, and Genon Hickerson Neblett. Chosen Exile: The Life and Times of Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1980.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Dawn of Tennessee Valley and Tennessee History. Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1937.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Tennessee during the Revolutionary War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1944.
Wills, Ridley II. The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation, and Stud. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1991.
Wills, Ridley II. A Walking Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: The Cemetery, 1993.
Windrow, John Edwin. John Berrien Lindsley, Educator, Physician, Social Philosopher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
Windrow, John Edwin, ed. Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb. Nashville: Williams Press, 1977.
Wolfe, Charles K. A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.
Yellin, Carol Lynn, Janann Sherman, and Ilene Jones-Cornwell. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. Memphis: Iris Press, 1998.
Zepp, George R. Hidden History of Nashville. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.
Zibart, Carl F. Yesterday's Nashville. Miami: E.S. Seemann Publishing, 1976.
Zimmerman, Mark. Guide to Civil War Nashville. Nashville: Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004.
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(Note: There are scores of other important Nashville-related history books; adding to this list is an ongoing project. Some of these books are out of print, but all may be located in the Nashville Public Library or the Tennessee State Library and Archives.)
Adams, George Rollie, and Ralph Jerry Christian. Nashville: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co., 1980.
Andrew Jackson Slept Here: A Guide to Historical Markers in Nashville and Davidson County. Naashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1993.
Armistead, George H. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901. Nashville: TN Historical Society; Whippoorwill Publication, 1981.
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Flowering of the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. (Previously published New York: MacMillan, 1963)
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (Previously published, 1960)
An Aviation Adventure: A History of Aviation in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Nashville: Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, 2003.
Baird, James Oscar. The Life and Works of Charles Edgar Little. Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949.
Beasley, Paul. A Directory of Historical Markers--Nashville and Davidson County. Nashville: Retired Teachers Association, 1977.
Bucy, Carole Stanford, and Carol Farrar Kaplan. The Nashville City Cemetery: History Carved in Stone. Nashville: Nashville City Cemetery Association, 2000.
Caldwell, Mary French. Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Nashville: Ladies’ Hermitage Association, 1933.
Carey, Bill. Chancellors, Commodores, and Coeds: A History of Vanderbilt University. Knoxville: Clearbrook Press, 2003.
Carey, Bill. Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2000.
Carey, Bill. Master of the Big Board: The Life, Time, and Business of Jack Massey. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2005.
Carr, John. Early Times in Middle Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1857 [1958].
Coke, Fletch. Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Nashville: Episcopal Diocese of TN, 2004.
Coke, Fletch. The Hermitage Landscape: Before and After the 1998 Tornado. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 1999.
Conkin, Paul Keith. Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Cowan, Dakie Caldwell. Annie Was A Lady: A Biography of Annie Claybrooke Allison. Nashville: D.C. Cowan, 1985.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr., and Leland R. Johnson, eds. The First Presbyterian Church of Nashville: A Documentary History. Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1986.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr. Building of Nashville. Nashville, 1969.
Crouch, Arthur Weir, and Harry Dixon Claybrook. Our Ancestors Were Engineers. Nashville: America Society of Civil Engineers, 1976.
Crutchfield, James Andrew. Early Times in the Cumberland Valley: From Its Beginnings to 1800. Nashville: First American Bank, 1976.
Davenport, F. Garvin. Cultural Life in Nashville on the Eve of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
Davis, Louise Littleton. From Chicken House to the Moon. Nashville: Friends of the Metro Archives, 1998.
Davis, Louis Littleton. Nashville Tales. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1981.
Douglas, Byrd. Steamboatin' on the Cumberland. Nashville: Tennessee Book Co., 1961.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville since the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Drake, Doug, Jack Masters, and Bill Puryear. Founding of the Cumberland Settlements: The First Atlas, 1779-1804. Gallatin, TN: Warioto Press, 2009.
Duke, Jan. Historic Photos of Nashville. Nashville: Turner Pub. Co., 2005.
Durham, Walter T. Balie Peyton of Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
Durham, Walter T. Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796. Piney Flats, TN: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990.
Durham, Walter T. Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont: Politics and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2002.
Durham, Walter T. Nashville: The Occupied City. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 1985.
Durham, Walter T. Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1987.
Edwards, Amelia Whitsitt. Nashville Interiors: 1866 to 1920. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Egerton, John, and E. Thomas Wood. Nashville: An American Self-Portrait. Nashville: Beaten Biscuit Press, 2001.
Egerton, John. Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980. Nashville: PlusMedia, 1979.
Elliott, Lizzie Porterfield. Early History of Nashville. Nashville: Board of Education, 1911.
Faragher, Scott. Nashville in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Finger, John R. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Frank, Fedora Small. Beginnings on Market Street. Nashville: Frank, 1976.
Garden Study Club of Nashville. History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1964. (Previously published in 1936)
Goodspeed. Goodspeed’s General History of Tennessee. Nashville: C. & R. Elder Booksellers, 1973. (Previously published in 1887)
Goodstein, Anita Shafer. Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.
Gossett, Charmaine B. Captain Tom Ryman: His Life and Legacy. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2001.
Graham, Eleanor, ed. Nashville: A Short History and Selected Buildings. Nashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1974.
Graham, Eleanor, and Mary Glenn Hearne, eds. Nashville: Families and Homes. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1983.
Grant, Amy, and Karen Geary. Nashville: Hills of Harmony. Memphis: Towery Pub., 2001.
Guild, Jo. C. (Josephus Conn). Old Times in Tennessee. Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1878.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
Hawkins, Martin. A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press and Country Music Foundation Press, 2006.
Haywood, John. Civil and Political History of Tennessee. Nashville: Printed for W.H. Haywood, 1891 (exact reprint of the edition of 1823)
Hoobler, James A. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901: [Index of historical Sites]. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1984.
Hoobler, James A. Cities Under the Gun: Images of Occupied Nashville and Chattanooga. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1986.
Hoobler, James A. A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald. The Decisive Battle of Nashville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1956.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald The Hermitage: Home of Old Hickory. Richmond, Garrett & Massie, 1938.
Ingram, Martha. Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South Nashville, Tennessee. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
James, Marquis. The Life of Andrew Jackson. (Part 1: The Border Captain; Part 2: Portrait of a President.) New York: Garden City Pub., 1938.
Jennings, Thelma. The Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1850. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1980.
Johnson, Leland R. The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation. Nashville: Metro Nashville Board of Parks & Recreation, 1986.
Justi, Herman, ed. Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition: Opened May 1, and Closed October 30, 1897. Nashville: Brandon Printing Co., 1898.
Kaplan, Carol Farrar, and Livy I. Simpson. Remember the Ladies: Women of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: L.I. Simpson, 1995.
Karr, Steve, et al. Nashville Trivia. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Kelley, Sarah Foster. Children of Nashville: Lineages from James Robertson. Nashville: Blue & Gray Press, 1973.
Kreyling, Christine, et al. Classical Nashville: Athens of the South. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
Kyriakoudes, Louis M. The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003.
Larimore, Emma Page. The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning. Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1907.
Lauder, Kathy, and Mike Slate. "From Knickers to Body Stockings" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M. D. Slate, 2006.
Lawrence, Bobby. Tennessee Centennial: Nashville 1897. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1998.
Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Lovett, Bobby L. The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Lynch, Amy, and Margaret E. Dick. Nashville: Upbeat and Down to Business. Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, 1990.
Maiden, Lewis Smith. Highlights of the Nashville Theater, 1876-1890. New York: Vantage Press, 1979.
Masserano, Rose Marie. The Nashville Dominicans: A History of the Congregation of Saint Cecilia. Roslyn Heights, NY: Roth Publishing, 1985.
Matthews, Thomas Edwin. General James Robertson: Father of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1934.
May, Lynn E. Jr. The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, 1820-1970. Nashville: First Baptist Church, 1970.
McCague, James. The Cumberland. (Rivers of America Series) New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973.
McDaniel, Karina. Nashville Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2005.
McFerrin, John Berry. Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
McGaw, Robert A. The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictorial History. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1978.
Mims, Edwin. History of Vanderbilt University. Nashville: Vanderbilt University press, 1946.
Morton-Young, Tommie. Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
Nashville Public Library. Seven Early Churches of Nashville. Nashville: Elder’s Bookstoore, 1972.
Nashville Room Staff. Nashville: A Family Town. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1978.
Norman, Jack Sr. The Nashville I Knew. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1984.
Orr, Frank H, Ed. Notable Nashville Architecture, 1930 to 1980. Nashville: American Institute of Architects, 1989.
Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the end of the Eighteenth Century. Knoxville: Reprinted for the East TN Historical Society, 1967. (Previously published in 1853)
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power. New York: Norton, 1967.
Remini, Robert V. The Jacksonian Era. Arlington Heights, IL: H. Davidson, 1989.
Roseman, Jean. From Y to J: The Hundred-Year History of Nashville's Jewish Community Center. Nashville: Gordon Jewish Community Center, 2004.
Seigenthaler, John M., and Curtis Allen. Nashville: City of Note. Memphis: Towery Pub., 1997.
Sherman, Joe. A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville's Union Station. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Sherraden, Jim. Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.
Simbeck, Rob. Daughter of the Air: The Short Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
Simpson, John A. Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Simpson, John A. “The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie”: The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Simpson, John A. S.A. Cunningham and the Confederate Heritage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Slate, Mike, and Kathy Lauder. "The Confederate Twenty-Dollar Irony" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M.D. Slate, 2004.
Spinney, Robert G. World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.
Summerville, James. Colleagues on the Cumberland: A History of the Nashville Legal Profession. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1996.
Summerville, James. Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983.
Summerville, James. Nashville Medicine: A History. Birmingham: Association Publishing Co., 1999.
Summerville, James. The Carmack-Cooper Shooting. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 2000.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Tennessee Historical Markers. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1980.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1964.
Thomas, Jane Henry. Old Days in Nashville. Nashville: Charles Elder, 196?. (Reprint of the 1897 edition with an added historical sketch by J.G.M. Ramsey.)
Thompson, E.D. The Nashville Nostalgia Years. Nashville: Westview Publishing Co., 2005.
Waller, William. Nashville in the 1890's. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.
Waller, William. Nashville, 1900-1910. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
Warshauer, Matthew. Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
West, Carroll Van, ed., et al. A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
West, Carroll Van. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society; Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
West, Earl Irvin. The Life and Times of David Lipscomb. Henderson, TN: Religious Book Service, 1954.
Wheeler, Mary Bray, and Genon Hickerson Neblett. Chosen Exile: The Life and Times of Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1980.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Dawn of Tennessee Valley and Tennessee History. Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1937.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Tennessee during the Revolutionary War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1944.
Wills, Ridley II. The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation, and Stud. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1991.
Wills, Ridley II. A Walking Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: The Cemetery, 1993.
Windrow, John Edwin. John Berrien Lindsley, Educator, Physician, Social Philosopher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
Windrow, John Edwin, ed. Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb. Nashville: Williams Press, 1977.
Wolfe, Charles K. A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.
Yellin, Carol Lynn, Janann Sherman, and Ilene Jones-Cornwell. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. Memphis: Iris Press, 1998.
Zepp, George R. Hidden History of Nashville. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.
Zibart, Carl F. Yesterday's Nashville. Miami: E.S. Seemann Publishing, 1976.
Zimmerman, Mark. Guide to Civil War Nashville. Nashville: Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004.
Return to NHN Table of Contents.
(Note: There are scores of other important Nashville-related history books; adding to this list is an ongoing project. Some of these books are out of print, but all may be located in the Nashville Public Library or the Tennessee State Library and Archives.)
Adams, George Rollie, and Ralph Jerry Christian. Nashville: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co., 1980.
Andrew Jackson Slept Here: A Guide to Historical Markers in Nashville and Davidson County. Naashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1993.
Armistead, George H. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901. Nashville: TN Historical Society; Whippoorwill Publication, 1981.
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Flowering of the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. (Previously published New York: MacMillan, 1963)
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (Previously published, 1960)
An Aviation Adventure: A History of Aviation in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Nashville: Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, 2003.
Baird, James Oscar. The Life and Works of Charles Edgar Little. Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949.
Beasley, Paul. A Directory of Historical Markers--Nashville and Davidson County. Nashville: Retired Teachers Association, 1977.
Bucy, Carole Stanford, and Carol Farrar Kaplan. The Nashville City Cemetery: History Carved in Stone. Nashville: Nashville City Cemetery Association, 2000.
Caldwell, Mary French. Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Nashville: Ladies’ Hermitage Association, 1933.
Carey, Bill. Chancellors, Commodores, and Coeds: A History of Vanderbilt University. Knoxville: Clearbrook Press, 2003.
Carey, Bill. Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2000.
Carey, Bill. Master of the Big Board: The Life, Time, and Business of Jack Massey. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2005.
Carr, John. Early Times in Middle Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1857 [1958].
Coke, Fletch. Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Nashville: Episcopal Diocese of TN, 2004.
Coke, Fletch. The Hermitage Landscape: Before and After the 1998 Tornado. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 1999.
Conkin, Paul Keith. Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Cowan, Dakie Caldwell. Annie Was A Lady: A Biography of Annie Claybrooke Allison. Nashville: D.C. Cowan, 1985.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr., and Leland R. Johnson, eds. The First Presbyterian Church of Nashville: A Documentary History. Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1986.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr. Building of Nashville. Nashville, 1969.
Crouch, Arthur Weir, and Harry Dixon Claybrook. Our Ancestors Were Engineers. Nashville: America Society of Civil Engineers, 1976.
Crutchfield, James Andrew. Early Times in the Cumberland Valley: From Its Beginnings to 1800. Nashville: First American Bank, 1976.
Davenport, F. Garvin. Cultural Life in Nashville on the Eve of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
Davis, Louise Littleton. From Chicken House to the Moon. Nashville: Friends of the Metro Archives, 1998.
Davis, Louis Littleton. Nashville Tales. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1981.
Douglas, Byrd. Steamboatin' on the Cumberland. Nashville: Tennessee Book Co., 1961.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville since the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Drake, Doug, Jack Masters, and Bill Puryear. Founding of the Cumberland Settlements: The First Atlas, 1779-1804. Gallatin, TN: Warioto Press, 2009.
Duke, Jan. Historic Photos of Nashville. Nashville: Turner Pub. Co., 2005.
Durham, Walter T. Balie Peyton of Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
Durham, Walter T. Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796. Piney Flats, TN: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990.
Durham, Walter T. Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont: Politics and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2002.
Durham, Walter T. Nashville: The Occupied City. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 1985.
Durham, Walter T. Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1987.
Edwards, Amelia Whitsitt. Nashville Interiors: 1866 to 1920. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Egerton, John, and E. Thomas Wood. Nashville: An American Self-Portrait. Nashville: Beaten Biscuit Press, 2001.
Egerton, John. Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980. Nashville: PlusMedia, 1979.
Elliott, Lizzie Porterfield. Early History of Nashville. Nashville: Board of Education, 1911.
Faragher, Scott. Nashville in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Finger, John R. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Frank, Fedora Small. Beginnings on Market Street. Nashville: Frank, 1976.
Garden Study Club of Nashville. History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1964. (Previously published in 1936)
Goodspeed. Goodspeed’s General History of Tennessee. Nashville: C. & R. Elder Booksellers, 1973. (Previously published in 1887)
Goodstein, Anita Shafer. Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.
Gossett, Charmaine B. Captain Tom Ryman: His Life and Legacy. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2001.
Graham, Eleanor, ed. Nashville: A Short History and Selected Buildings. Nashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1974.
Graham, Eleanor, and Mary Glenn Hearne, eds. Nashville: Families and Homes. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1983.
Grant, Amy, and Karen Geary. Nashville: Hills of Harmony. Memphis: Towery Pub., 2001.
Guild, Jo. C. (Josephus Conn). Old Times in Tennessee. Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1878.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
Hawkins, Martin. A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press and Country Music Foundation Press, 2006.
Haywood, John. Civil and Political History of Tennessee. Nashville: Printed for W.H. Haywood, 1891 (exact reprint of the edition of 1823)
Hoobler, James A. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901: [Index of historical Sites]. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1984.
Hoobler, James A. Cities Under the Gun: Images of Occupied Nashville and Chattanooga. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1986.
Hoobler, James A. A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald. The Decisive Battle of Nashville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1956.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald The Hermitage: Home of Old Hickory. Richmond, Garrett & Massie, 1938.
Ingram, Martha. Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South Nashville, Tennessee. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
James, Marquis. The Life of Andrew Jackson. (Part 1: The Border Captain; Part 2: Portrait of a President.) New York: Garden City Pub., 1938.
Jennings, Thelma. The Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1850. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1980.
Johnson, Leland R. The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation. Nashville: Metro Nashville Board of Parks & Recreation, 1986.
Justi, Herman, ed. Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition: Opened May 1, and Closed October 30, 1897. Nashville: Brandon Printing Co., 1898.
Kaplan, Carol Farrar, and Livy I. Simpson. Remember the Ladies: Women of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: L.I. Simpson, 1995.
Karr, Steve, et al. Nashville Trivia. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Kelley, Sarah Foster. Children of Nashville: Lineages from James Robertson. Nashville: Blue & Gray Press, 1973.
Kreyling, Christine, et al. Classical Nashville: Athens of the South. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
Kyriakoudes, Louis M. The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003.
Larimore, Emma Page. The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning. Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1907.
Lauder, Kathy, and Mike Slate. "From Knickers to Body Stockings" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M. D. Slate, 2006.
Lawrence, Bobby. Tennessee Centennial: Nashville 1897. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1998.
Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Lovett, Bobby L. The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Lynch, Amy, and Margaret E. Dick. Nashville: Upbeat and Down to Business. Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, 1990.
Maiden, Lewis Smith. Highlights of the Nashville Theater, 1876-1890. New York: Vantage Press, 1979.
Masserano, Rose Marie. The Nashville Dominicans: A History of the Congregation of Saint Cecilia. Roslyn Heights, NY: Roth Publishing, 1985.
Matthews, Thomas Edwin. General James Robertson: Father of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1934.
May, Lynn E. Jr. The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, 1820-1970. Nashville: First Baptist Church, 1970.
McCague, James. The Cumberland. (Rivers of America Series) New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973.
McDaniel, Karina. Nashville Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2005.
McFerrin, John Berry. Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
McGaw, Robert A. The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictorial History. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1978.
Mims, Edwin. History of Vanderbilt University. Nashville: Vanderbilt University press, 1946.
Morton-Young, Tommie. Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
Nashville Public Library. Seven Early Churches of Nashville. Nashville: Elder’s Bookstoore, 1972.
Nashville Room Staff. Nashville: A Family Town. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1978.
Norman, Jack Sr. The Nashville I Knew. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1984.
Orr, Frank H, Ed. Notable Nashville Architecture, 1930 to 1980. Nashville: American Institute of Architects, 1989.
Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the end of the Eighteenth Century. Knoxville: Reprinted for the East TN Historical Society, 1967. (Previously published in 1853)
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power. New York: Norton, 1967.
Remini, Robert V. The Jacksonian Era. Arlington Heights, IL: H. Davidson, 1989.
Roseman, Jean. From Y to J: The Hundred-Year History of Nashville's Jewish Community Center. Nashville: Gordon Jewish Community Center, 2004.
Seigenthaler, John M., and Curtis Allen. Nashville: City of Note. Memphis: Towery Pub., 1997.
Sherman, Joe. A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville's Union Station. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Sherraden, Jim. Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.
Simbeck, Rob. Daughter of the Air: The Short Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
Simpson, John A. Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Simpson, John A. “The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie”: The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Simpson, John A. S.A. Cunningham and the Confederate Heritage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Slate, Mike, and Kathy Lauder. "The Confederate Twenty-Dollar Irony" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M.D. Slate, 2004.
Spinney, Robert G. World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.
Summerville, James. Colleagues on the Cumberland: A History of the Nashville Legal Profession. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1996.
Summerville, James. Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983.
Summerville, James. Nashville Medicine: A History. Birmingham: Association Publishing Co., 1999.
Summerville, James. The Carmack-Cooper Shooting. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 2000.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Tennessee Historical Markers. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1980.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1964.
Thomas, Jane Henry. Old Days in Nashville. Nashville: Charles Elder, 196?. (Reprint of the 1897 edition with an added historical sketch by J.G.M. Ramsey.)
Thompson, E.D. The Nashville Nostalgia Years. Nashville: Westview Publishing Co., 2005.
Waller, William. Nashville in the 1890's. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.
Waller, William. Nashville, 1900-1910. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
Warshauer, Matthew. Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
West, Carroll Van, ed., et al. A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
West, Carroll Van. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society; Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
West, Earl Irvin. The Life and Times of David Lipscomb. Henderson, TN: Religious Book Service, 1954.
Wheeler, Mary Bray, and Genon Hickerson Neblett. Chosen Exile: The Life and Times of Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1980.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Dawn of Tennessee Valley and Tennessee History. Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1937.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Tennessee during the Revolutionary War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1944.
Wills, Ridley II. The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation, and Stud. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1991.
Wills, Ridley II. A Walking Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: The Cemetery, 1993.
Windrow, John Edwin. John Berrien Lindsley, Educator, Physician, Social Philosopher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
Windrow, John Edwin, ed. Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb. Nashville: Williams Press, 1977.
Wolfe, Charles K. A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.
Yellin, Carol Lynn, Janann Sherman, and Ilene Jones-Cornwell. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. Memphis: Iris Press, 1998.
Zepp, George R. Hidden History of Nashville. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.
Zibart, Carl F. Yesterday's Nashville. Miami: E.S. Seemann Publishing, 1976.
Zimmerman, Mark. Guide to Civil War Nashville. Nashville: Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004.
Return to NHN Table of Contents.
(Note: There are scores of other important Nashville-related history books; adding to this list is an ongoing project. Some of these books are out of print, but all may be located in the Nashville Public Library or the Tennessee State Library and Archives.)
Adams, George Rollie, and Ralph Jerry Christian. Nashville: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co., 1980.
Andrew Jackson Slept Here: A Guide to Historical Markers in Nashville and Davidson County. Naashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1993.
Armistead, George H. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901. Nashville: TN Historical Society; Whippoorwill Publication, 1981.
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Flowering of the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. (Previously published New York: MacMillan, 1963)
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (Previously published, 1960)
An Aviation Adventure: A History of Aviation in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Nashville: Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, 2003.
Baird, James Oscar. The Life and Works of Charles Edgar Little. Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949.
Beasley, Paul. A Directory of Historical Markers--Nashville and Davidson County. Nashville: Retired Teachers Association, 1977.
Bucy, Carole Stanford, and Carol Farrar Kaplan. The Nashville City Cemetery: History Carved in Stone. Nashville: Nashville City Cemetery Association, 2000.
Caldwell, Mary French. Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Nashville: Ladies’ Hermitage Association, 1933.
Carey, Bill. Chancellors, Commodores, and Coeds: A History of Vanderbilt University. Knoxville: Clearbrook Press, 2003.
Carey, Bill. Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2000.
Carey, Bill. Master of the Big Board: The Life, Time, and Business of Jack Massey. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2005.
Carr, John. Early Times in Middle Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1857 [1958].
Coke, Fletch. Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Nashville: Episcopal Diocese of TN, 2004.
Coke, Fletch. The Hermitage Landscape: Before and After the 1998 Tornado. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 1999.
Conkin, Paul Keith. Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Cowan, Dakie Caldwell. Annie Was A Lady: A Biography of Annie Claybrooke Allison. Nashville: D.C. Cowan, 1985.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr., and Leland R. Johnson, eds. The First Presbyterian Church of Nashville: A Documentary History. Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1986.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr. Building of Nashville. Nashville, 1969.
Crouch, Arthur Weir, and Harry Dixon Claybrook. Our Ancestors Were Engineers. Nashville: America Society of Civil Engineers, 1976.
Crutchfield, James Andrew. Early Times in the Cumberland Valley: From Its Beginnings to 1800. Nashville: First American Bank, 1976.
Davenport, F. Garvin. Cultural Life in Nashville on the Eve of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
Davis, Louise Littleton. From Chicken House to the Moon. Nashville: Friends of the Metro Archives, 1998.
Davis, Louis Littleton. Nashville Tales. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1981.
Douglas, Byrd. Steamboatin' on the Cumberland. Nashville: Tennessee Book Co., 1961.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville since the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Drake, Doug, Jack Masters, and Bill Puryear. Founding of the Cumberland Settlements: The First Atlas, 1779-1804. Gallatin, TN: Warioto Press, 2009.
Duke, Jan. Historic Photos of Nashville. Nashville: Turner Pub. Co., 2005.
Durham, Walter T. Balie Peyton of Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
Durham, Walter T. Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796. Piney Flats, TN: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990.
Durham, Walter T. Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont: Politics and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2002.
Durham, Walter T. Nashville: The Occupied City. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 1985.
Durham, Walter T. Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1987.
Edwards, Amelia Whitsitt. Nashville Interiors: 1866 to 1920. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Egerton, John, and E. Thomas Wood. Nashville: An American Self-Portrait. Nashville: Beaten Biscuit Press, 2001.
Egerton, John. Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980. Nashville: PlusMedia, 1979.
Elliott, Lizzie Porterfield. Early History of Nashville. Nashville: Board of Education, 1911.
Faragher, Scott. Nashville in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Finger, John R. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Frank, Fedora Small. Beginnings on Market Street. Nashville: Frank, 1976.
Garden Study Club of Nashville. History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1964. (Previously published in 1936)
Goodspeed. Goodspeed’s General History of Tennessee. Nashville: C. & R. Elder Booksellers, 1973. (Previously published in 1887)
Goodstein, Anita Shafer. Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.
Gossett, Charmaine B. Captain Tom Ryman: His Life and Legacy. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2001.
Graham, Eleanor, ed. Nashville: A Short History and Selected Buildings. Nashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1974.
Graham, Eleanor, and Mary Glenn Hearne, eds. Nashville: Families and Homes. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1983.
Grant, Amy, and Karen Geary. Nashville: Hills of Harmony. Memphis: Towery Pub., 2001.
Guild, Jo. C. (Josephus Conn). Old Times in Tennessee. Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1878.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
Hawkins, Martin. A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press and Country Music Foundation Press, 2006.
Haywood, John. Civil and Political History of Tennessee. Nashville: Printed for W.H. Haywood, 1891 (exact reprint of the edition of 1823)
Hoobler, James A. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901: [Index of historical Sites]. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1984.
Hoobler, James A. Cities Under the Gun: Images of Occupied Nashville and Chattanooga. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1986.
Hoobler, James A. A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald. The Decisive Battle of Nashville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1956.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald The Hermitage: Home of Old Hickory. Richmond, Garrett & Massie, 1938.
Ingram, Martha. Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South Nashville, Tennessee. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
James, Marquis. The Life of Andrew Jackson. (Part 1: The Border Captain; Part 2: Portrait of a President.) New York: Garden City Pub., 1938.
Jennings, Thelma. The Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1850. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1980.
Johnson, Leland R. The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation. Nashville: Metro Nashville Board of Parks & Recreation, 1986.
Justi, Herman, ed. Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition: Opened May 1, and Closed October 30, 1897. Nashville: Brandon Printing Co., 1898.
Kaplan, Carol Farrar, and Livy I. Simpson. Remember the Ladies: Women of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: L.I. Simpson, 1995.
Karr, Steve, et al. Nashville Trivia. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Kelley, Sarah Foster. Children of Nashville: Lineages from James Robertson. Nashville: Blue & Gray Press, 1973.
Kreyling, Christine, et al. Classical Nashville: Athens of the South. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
Kyriakoudes, Louis M. The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003.
Larimore, Emma Page. The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning. Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1907.
Lauder, Kathy, and Mike Slate. "From Knickers to Body Stockings" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M. D. Slate, 2006.
Lawrence, Bobby. Tennessee Centennial: Nashville 1897. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1998.
Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Lovett, Bobby L. The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Lynch, Amy, and Margaret E. Dick. Nashville: Upbeat and Down to Business. Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, 1990.
Maiden, Lewis Smith. Highlights of the Nashville Theater, 1876-1890. New York: Vantage Press, 1979.
Masserano, Rose Marie. The Nashville Dominicans: A History of the Congregation of Saint Cecilia. Roslyn Heights, NY: Roth Publishing, 1985.
Matthews, Thomas Edwin. General James Robertson: Father of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1934.
May, Lynn E. Jr. The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, 1820-1970. Nashville: First Baptist Church, 1970.
McCague, James. The Cumberland. (Rivers of America Series) New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973.
McDaniel, Karina. Nashville Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2005.
McFerrin, John Berry. Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
McGaw, Robert A. The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictorial History. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1978.
Mims, Edwin. History of Vanderbilt University. Nashville: Vanderbilt University press, 1946.
Morton-Young, Tommie. Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
Nashville Public Library. Seven Early Churches of Nashville. Nashville: Elder’s Bookstoore, 1972.
Nashville Room Staff. Nashville: A Family Town. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1978.
Norman, Jack Sr. The Nashville I Knew. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1984.
Orr, Frank H, Ed. Notable Nashville Architecture, 1930 to 1980. Nashville: American Institute of Architects, 1989.
Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the end of the Eighteenth Century. Knoxville: Reprinted for the East TN Historical Society, 1967. (Previously published in 1853)
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power. New York: Norton, 1967.
Remini, Robert V. The Jacksonian Era. Arlington Heights, IL: H. Davidson, 1989.
Roseman, Jean. From Y to J: The Hundred-Year History of Nashville's Jewish Community Center. Nashville: Gordon Jewish Community Center, 2004.
Seigenthaler, John M., and Curtis Allen. Nashville: City of Note. Memphis: Towery Pub., 1997.
Sherman, Joe. A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville's Union Station. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Sherraden, Jim. Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.
Simbeck, Rob. Daughter of the Air: The Short Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
Simpson, John A. Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Simpson, John A. “The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie”: The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Simpson, John A. S.A. Cunningham and the Confederate Heritage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Slate, Mike, and Kathy Lauder. "The Confederate Twenty-Dollar Irony" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M.D. Slate, 2004.
Spinney, Robert G. World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.
Summerville, James. Colleagues on the Cumberland: A History of the Nashville Legal Profession. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1996.
Summerville, James. Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983.
Summerville, James. Nashville Medicine: A History. Birmingham: Association Publishing Co., 1999.
Summerville, James. The Carmack-Cooper Shooting. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 2000.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Tennessee Historical Markers. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1980.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1964.
Thomas, Jane Henry. Old Days in Nashville. Nashville: Charles Elder, 196?. (Reprint of the 1897 edition with an added historical sketch by J.G.M. Ramsey.)
Thompson, E.D. The Nashville Nostalgia Years. Nashville: Westview Publishing Co., 2005.
Waller, William. Nashville in the 1890's. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.
Waller, William. Nashville, 1900-1910. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
Warshauer, Matthew. Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
West, Carroll Van, ed., et al. A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
West, Carroll Van. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society; Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
West, Earl Irvin. The Life and Times of David Lipscomb. Henderson, TN: Religious Book Service, 1954.
Wheeler, Mary Bray, and Genon Hickerson Neblett. Chosen Exile: The Life and Times of Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1980.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Dawn of Tennessee Valley and Tennessee History. Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1937.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Tennessee during the Revolutionary War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1944.
Wills, Ridley II. The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation, and Stud. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1991.
Wills, Ridley II. A Walking Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: The Cemetery, 1993.
Windrow, John Edwin. John Berrien Lindsley, Educator, Physician, Social Philosopher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
Windrow, John Edwin, ed. Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb. Nashville: Williams Press, 1977.
Wolfe, Charles K. A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.
Yellin, Carol Lynn, Janann Sherman, and Ilene Jones-Cornwell. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. Memphis: Iris Press, 1998.
Zepp, George R. Hidden History of Nashville. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.
Zibart, Carl F. Yesterday's Nashville. Miami: E.S. Seemann Publishing, 1976.
Zimmerman, Mark. Guide to Civil War Nashville. Nashville: Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004.
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Larimore, Emma Page. The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning. Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1907.
Summerville, James. The Carmack-Cooper Shooting. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
Larimore, Emma Page. The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning. Nashville: Mc Quiddy Printing Co., 1907.
Summerville, James. The Carmack-Cooper Shooting. Jefferson, NC: Mc Farland, 1994.
(Note: There are scores of other important Nashville-related history books; adding to this list is an ongoing project. Some of these books are out of print, but all may be located in the Nashville Public Library or the Tennessee State Library and Archives.)
Adams, George Rollie, and Ralph Jerry Christian. Nashville: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co., 1980.
Andrew Jackson Slept Here: A Guide to Historical Markers in Nashville and Davidson County. Naashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1993.
Armistead, George H. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901. Nashville: TN Historical Society; Whippoorwill Publication, 1981.
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Flowering of the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. (Previously published New York: MacMillan, 1963)
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (Previously published, 1960)
An Aviation Adventure: A History of Aviation in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Nashville: Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, 2003.
Baird, James Oscar. The Life and Works of Charles Edgar Little. Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949.
Beasley, Paul. A Directory of Historical Markers--Nashville and Davidson County. Nashville: Retired Teachers Association, 1977.
Bucy, Carole Stanford, and Carol Farrar Kaplan. The Nashville City Cemetery: History Carved in Stone. Nashville: Nashville City Cemetery Association, 2000.
Caldwell, Mary French. Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Nashville: Ladies’ Hermitage Association, 1933.
Carey, Bill. Chancellors, Commodores, and Coeds: A History of Vanderbilt University. Knoxville: Clearbrook Press, 2003.
Carey, Bill. Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2000.
Carey, Bill. Master of the Big Board: The Life, Time, and Business of Jack Massey. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2005.
Carr, John. Early Times in Middle Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1857 [1958].
Coke, Fletch. Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Nashville: Episcopal Diocese of TN, 2004.
Coke, Fletch. The Hermitage Landscape: Before and After the 1998 Tornado. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 1999.
Conkin, Paul Keith. Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Cowan, Dakie Caldwell. Annie Was A Lady: A Biography of Annie Claybrooke Allison. Nashville: D.C. Cowan, 1985.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr., and Leland R. Johnson, eds. The First Presbyterian Church of Nashville: A Documentary History. Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1986.
Creighton, Wilbur F. Jr. Building of Nashville. Nashville, 1969.
Crouch, Arthur Weir, and Harry Dixon Claybrook. Our Ancestors Were Engineers. Nashville: America Society of Civil Engineers, 1976.
Crutchfield, James Andrew. Early Times in the Cumberland Valley: From Its Beginnings to 1800. Nashville: First American Bank, 1976.
Davenport, F. Garvin. Cultural Life in Nashville on the Eve of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.
Davis, Louise Littleton. From Chicken House to the Moon. Nashville: Friends of the Metro Archives, 1998.
Davis, Louis Littleton. Nashville Tales. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1981.
Douglas, Byrd. Steamboatin' on the Cumberland. Nashville: Tennessee Book Co., 1961.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville since the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Drake, Doug, Jack Masters, and Bill Puryear. Founding of the Cumberland Settlements: The First Atlas, 1779-1804. Gallatin, TN: Warioto Press, 2009.
Duke, Jan. Historic Photos of Nashville. Nashville: Turner Pub. Co., 2005.
Durham, Walter T. Balie Peyton of Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
Durham, Walter T. Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796. Piney Flats, TN: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990.
Durham, Walter T. Josephus Conn Guild and Rose Mont: Politics and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Tennessee. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2002.
Durham, Walter T. Nashville: The Occupied City. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 1985.
Durham, Walter T. Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1987.
Edwards, Amelia Whitsitt. Nashville Interiors: 1866 to 1920. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Egerton, John, and E. Thomas Wood. Nashville: An American Self-Portrait. Nashville: Beaten Biscuit Press, 2001.
Egerton, John. Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980. Nashville: PlusMedia, 1979.
Elliott, Lizzie Porterfield. Early History of Nashville. Nashville: Board of Education, 1911.
Faragher, Scott. Nashville in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Finger, John R. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Frank, Fedora Small. Beginnings on Market Street. Nashville: Frank, 1976.
Garden Study Club of Nashville. History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1964. (Previously published in 1936)
Goodspeed. Goodspeed’s General History of Tennessee. Nashville: C. & R. Elder Booksellers, 1973. (Previously published in 1887)
Goodstein, Anita Shafer. Nashville, 1780-1860: From Frontier to City. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.
Gossett, Charmaine B. Captain Tom Ryman: His Life and Legacy. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2001.
Graham, Eleanor, ed. Nashville: A Short History and Selected Buildings. Nashville: Metro Historical Commission, 1974.
Graham, Eleanor, and Mary Glenn Hearne, eds. Nashville: Families and Homes. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1983.
Grant, Amy, and Karen Geary. Nashville: Hills of Harmony. Memphis: Towery Pub., 2001.
Guild, Jo. C. (Josephus Conn). Old Times in Tennessee. Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1878.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
Hawkins, Martin. A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press and Country Music Foundation Press, 2006.
Haywood, John. Civil and Political History of Tennessee. Nashville: Printed for W.H. Haywood, 1891 (exact reprint of the edition of 1823)
Hoobler, James A. Art Work of Nashville, 1894-1901: [Index of historical Sites]. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1984.
Hoobler, James A. Cities Under the Gun: Images of Occupied Nashville and Chattanooga. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1986.
Hoobler, James A. A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Hoobler, James A. Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald. The Decisive Battle of Nashville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1956.
Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald The Hermitage: Home of Old Hickory. Richmond, Garrett & Massie, 1938.
Ingram, Martha. Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South Nashville, Tennessee. Franklin: Hillsboro Press, 2004.
James, Marquis. The Life of Andrew Jackson. (Part 1: The Border Captain; Part 2: Portrait of a President.) New York: Garden City Pub., 1938.
Jennings, Thelma. The Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1850. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1980.
Johnson, Leland R. The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation. Nashville: Metro Nashville Board of Parks & Recreation, 1986.
Justi, Herman, ed. Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition: Opened May 1, and Closed October 30, 1897. Nashville: Brandon Printing Co., 1898.
Kaplan, Carol Farrar, and Livy I. Simpson. Remember the Ladies: Women of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: L.I. Simpson, 1995.
Karr, Steve, et al. Nashville Trivia. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Kelley, Sarah Foster. Children of Nashville: Lineages from James Robertson. Nashville: Blue & Gray Press, 1973.
Kreyling, Christine, et al. Classical Nashville: Athens of the South. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
Kyriakoudes, Louis M. The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003.
Larimore, Emma Page. The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning. Nashville: Mc Quiddy Printing Co., 1907.
Lauder, Kathy, and Mike Slate. "From Knickers to Body Stockings" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M. D. Slate, 2006.
Lawrence, Bobby. Tennessee Centennial: Nashville 1897. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1998.
Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Lovett, Bobby L. The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Lynch, Amy, and Margaret E. Dick. Nashville: Upbeat and Down to Business. Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, 1990.
Maiden, Lewis Smith. Highlights of the Nashville Theater, 1876-1890. New York: Vantage Press, 1979.
Masserano, Rose Marie. The Nashville Dominicans: A History of the Congregation of Saint Cecilia. Roslyn Heights, NY: Roth Publishing, 1985.
Matthews, Thomas Edwin. General James Robertson: Father of Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1934.
May, Lynn E. Jr. The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, 1820-1970. Nashville: First Baptist Church, 1970.
McCague, James. The Cumberland. (Rivers of America Series) New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973.
McDaniel, Karina. Nashville Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2005.
McFerrin, John Berry. Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
McGaw, Robert A. The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictorial History. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1978.
Mims, Edwin. History of Vanderbilt University. Nashville: Vanderbilt University press, 1946.
Morton-Young, Tommie. Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
Nashville Public Library. Seven Early Churches of Nashville. Nashville: Elder’s Bookstoore, 1972.
Nashville Room Staff. Nashville: A Family Town. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, 1978.
Norman, Jack Sr. The Nashville I Knew. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1984.
Orr, Frank H, Ed. Notable Nashville Architecture, 1930 to 1980. Nashville: American Institute of Architects, 1989.
Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the end of the Eighteenth Century. Knoxville: Reprinted for the East TN Historical Society, 1967. (Previously published in 1853)
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power. New York: Norton, 1967.
Remini, Robert V. The Jacksonian Era. Arlington Heights, IL: H. Davidson, 1989.
Roseman, Jean. From Y to J: The Hundred-Year History of Nashville's Jewish Community Center. Nashville: Gordon Jewish Community Center, 2004.
Seigenthaler, John M., and Curtis Allen. Nashville: City of Note. Memphis: Towery Pub., 1997.
Sherman, Joe. A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville's Union Station. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Sherraden, Jim. Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.
Simbeck, Rob. Daughter of the Air: The Short Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
Simpson, John A. Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Simpson, John A. “The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie”: The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Simpson, John A. S.A. Cunningham and the Confederate Heritage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Slate, Mike, and Kathy Lauder. "The Confederate Twenty-Dollar Irony" and Other Essays from the Nashville Historical Newsletter. Nashville: M.D. Slate, 2004.
Spinney, Robert G. World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.
Summerville, James. Colleagues on the Cumberland: A History of the Nashville Legal Profession. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1996.
Summerville, James. Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983.
Summerville, James. Nashville Medicine: A History. Birmingham: Association Publishing Co., 1999.
Summerville, James. The Carmack-Cooper Shooting. Jefferson, NC: Mc Farland, 1994.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 2000.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Tennessee Historical Markers. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1980.
Tennessee Historical Commission. Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents. Nashville: TN Historical Commission, 1964.
Thomas, Jane Henry. Old Days in Nashville. Nashville: Charles Elder, 196?. (Reprint of the 1897 edition with an added historical sketch by J.G.M. Ramsey.)
Thompson, E.D. The Nashville Nostalgia Years. Nashville: Westview Publishing Co., 2005.
Waller, William. Nashville in the 1890's. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.
Waller, William. Nashville, 1900-1910. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
Warshauer, Matthew. Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
West, Carroll Van, ed., et al. A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
West, Carroll Van. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society; Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
West, Earl Irvin. The Life and Times of David Lipscomb. Henderson, TN: Religious Book Service, 1954.
Wheeler, Mary Bray, and Genon Hickerson Neblett. Chosen Exile: The Life and Times of Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1980.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Dawn of Tennessee Valley and Tennessee History. Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1937.
Williams, Samuel Cole. Tennessee during the Revolutionary War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1944.
Wills, Ridley II. The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation, and Stud. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1991.
Wills, Ridley II. A Walking Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville: The Cemetery, 1993.
Windrow, John Edwin. John Berrien Lindsley, Educator, Physician, Social Philosopher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
Windrow, John Edwin, ed. Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb. Nashville: Williams Press, 1977.
Wolfe, Charles K. A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.
Yellin, Carol Lynn, Janann Sherman, and Ilene Jones-Cornwell. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. Memphis: Iris Press, 1998.
Zepp, George R. Hidden History of Nashville. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.
Zibart, Carl F. Yesterday's Nashville. Miami: E.S. Seemann Publishing, 1976.
Zimmerman, Mark. Guide to Civil War Nashville. Nashville: Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004.
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