Public Works Administration (PWA)
Organized with funds from the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 1933, the Public Works Administration (PWA) was one of the New Deal’s several attempts to revive the nation’s depression-ridden...
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Wyatt Prunty is the author of six collections of poetry: The Times Between (1982), What Women Know, What Men Believe (1986), Balance as Belief (1989), The Run of the House (1993), Since the Noon Mail...
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First settled by freedmen during Reconstruction, the community of Promise Land, north of Charlotte in Dickson County, sheltered its residents from the Jim Crow South, offering them protection from the...
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The Proffitt’s department store chain was started by D. W. Proffitt in Maryville, Tennessee, in 1919. Son Harwell Proffitt opened another Proffitt’s in Athens in 1965, and the first Knoxville location...
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Born in Maury County on April 1, 1900, James Percy Priest went to county public schools before attending classes at the teacher’s college in Murfreesboro (now Middle Tennessee State University), George...
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Parthenon Slideshow
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James Knox Polk Slideshow
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Prehistoric Native American Art Slideshow
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Elvis Presley Slideshow
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