Primary Sources: The American South: Tennessee

Through her edited interviews with these women, Melissa Walker provides firsthand descriptions of the influence of modernization on ordinary people struggling through the agricultural depression of the 1920s and 1930s and its aftermath. Their oral histories make plain the challenges such women faced and the self-sacrificing ways they found to confront hardship.

: a Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890 / edited by Minoa D. Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, Phyllis Smith, and Eleanor Williams.

: the George Boswell Collection / edited by Charles K. Wolfe

written especially for the Army of the Tennessee in 1862 by a comrade on that battle-field and a West-Point graduate of 1827.