[PDF] Tennessees New Deal Landscape eBook

Author : Carroll Van West
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781572331082

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The indelible stamp of the New Deal can be seen across American in the public works projects that modernized the country even as they provided employment during the Great Depression. Tennessee, in particular, benefited from the surge in federal construction. The New Deal not only left the state with many public buildings and schools that are still in active use, but is conservation and reclamation efforts also changed the lives of Tennesseans for generations to come. In Tennessee's New Deal Landscape, Caroll Van West examines over 250 historic sites created from 1933 to 1942: courthouses, post offices, community buildings, schools, and museums, along with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Cherokee National Forest, and the dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He describes the significant and impact of each project and provides maps to guide readers to the sites described. West discusses architectural styles that are often difficult to identity, and his lively narrative points out some of the paradoxes of New Deal projects-such as the proliferation of leisure parks during the nation's darkest hours. In highlighting these projects, he shows that Tennessee owes much not only to TVA but also to many other agencies and individuals who left their mark on the landscape through roads, levees, and reforested hillsides as well as buildings. An invaluable resource for travelers as well as scholars, this book reveals a legacy of historic treasures that are well worth preserving. The Author: Carroll Van West is projects manager for the Center of Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University. The author of Tennessee's Historic Landscapes, he most recently edited the volumes Tennessee History: The Land, the People, and the Culture and the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. He is also senior editor of the Tennessee Historic Quarterly.

Author : Tara Mitchell Mielnik
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1611172020

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Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which still exist today. Enhanced with revealing interviews with former state CCC members, Mielnik's illustrated account provides a unique exploration into the Great Depression in the Palmetto State and the role that South Carolina's state parks continue to play as architectural legacies of a monumental New Deal program. In 1933, thousands of unemployed young men and World War I veterans were given the opportunity to work when Emergency Conservation Work (ECW), one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs, came to South Carolina. Renamed the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937, the program was responsible for planting millions of trees in reforestation projects, augmenting firefighting activities, stringing much-needed telephone lines for fire prevention throughout the state, and terracing farmland and other soil conservation projects. The most visible legacies of the CCC in South Carolina are many of the state's national forests, recreational areas, and parks. Prior to the work of the CCC, South Carolina had no state parks, but, from 1933 to 1942, the CCC built sixteen. Mielnik's briskly paced and informative study gives voice to the young men who labored in the South Carolina CCC and honors the legacy of the parks they built and the conservation and public recreation values these sites fostered for modern South Carolina.

Author : Robert D. Leighninger
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781570036637

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Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal is augmented by fifty-eight photographs.

Author : Anthony J. Badger
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812295609

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In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger seeks not just to explore the successes and failures of an important political figure who spent more than three decades in the national eye—and whose son would become Vice President of the United States—but also to explain the dramatic changes in the South that led to national political realignment. Born on a small farm in the hills of Tennessee, Gore served in Congress from 1938 to 1970, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate. During that time, the United States became a global superpower and the South a two party desegregated region. Gore, whom Badger describes as a policy-oriented liberal, saw the federal government as the answer to the South's problems. He held a resilient faith, according to Badger, in the federal government to regulate wages and prices in World War II, to further social welfare through the New Deal and the Great Society, and to promote economic growth and transform the infrastructure of the South. Gore worked to make Tennessee the "atomic capital" of the nation and to protect the Tennessee Valley Authority, while at the same time cosponsoring legislation to create the national highway system. He was more cautious in his approach to civil rights; though bolder than his moderate Southern peers, he struggled to adjust to the shifting political ground of the 1960s. His career was defined by his relationship with Lyndon Johnson, whose Vietnam policies Gore bitterly opposed. The injection of Christian perspectives into the state's politics ultimately distanced Gore's worldview from that of his constituents. Altogether, Gore's political rise and fall, Badger argues, illuminates the significance of race, religion, and class in the creation of the modern South.

Author : Carroll Van West
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870498817

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Whether you are reading from your armchair or on the road, this comprehensive tour guide to the state of Tennessee will inform you about the incredible diversity of historic places from east to west. Focusing on the built environment, this reference covers architectural achievements from the state capitol in Nashville to the earliest humble cabins in East Tennessee.

Author : Laura Sivert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2014
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In the 1930s, the United States government embarked on several large-scale infrastructural water projects largely constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. In May of 1933, a new Act created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to build a series of dams in the Tennessee River watershed that spanned seven states. From its inception, the TVA was controversial because it changed the influence that private business had over water rights, and paved the way for government regulation of electricity prices. This dissertation situates the visual dissemination of the TVA dams project through an examination of the role of its publicity as a modernizing tool in mid 20th - century America. Much scholarly work has explored the Tennessee Valley Authority from the perspective of its socio-economic effects and its contentious ecological ramifications, yet the Authority's rich visual culture has escaped prolonged scholarly engagement. This is surprising considering that the TVA was an explicitly visionary enterprise, time and again enlisting photographers to illustrate articles and books that would reach and teach citizens of the Tennessee Valley, the country, and other nations, about the modernizing goals of the project. The TVA promoted its projects via posters, documentary photographs and film, paintings, post cards, museum exhibitions, fair exhibitions, journals and newspaper articles. As the images shifted, so did the understanding and approval of the project, but the images needed to change frequently to keep up with public opinion. Public perception altered the way the TVA sought out a targeted audience in order to gain approval for a project that was constantly fighting legal battles in the Supreme Court (and more emotional battles in the impoverished and segregated rural south). The TVA blossomed during and after the Great Depression, but its endeavors in the fine arts and visual culture resonate beyond the immediate context of the New Deal. These activities point to a re-thinking of the very concept of modernization. My research explores the confluence of these differing ideals and also their shifting focus--in all their richness and contradictions. Using the material cited above, I aim to investigate how the TVA defined its politics and asserted its agenda through visual means.

Author : Neil M. Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0195306015

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Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism.

Author : Jesse Graves
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1680032682

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Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition First released in 2011, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was the debut poetry collection from Tennessee poet Jesse Graves and was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers’ Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. The poems in Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine take part in many of the traditions of lyric poetry, including elegies for lost loved ones, odes to the beauty of family and the natural world, expressed through a range of poetic forms and techniques. The 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition includes twelve new poems and an introduction by Matthew Wimberley. from “Emissaries” Some mornings when I’m reading early, no light yet but the table lamp, my left hand will run through scales along the spine of the open book. My hands keep their own remembrance buried in fine grooves of flesh. The fingers turn over ignitions, faucets, always attuned to their proper force, knuckles never breaking things unless my brain overpowers them. They’ve discovered spectacular terrains, soft enclosures I can never enter again. I send them ahead as scouts for survey, emissaries that flip the lights in every dark hallway of the future.

Author : Karen Cox
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0807169226

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Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the 1930s South brings together historians, art critics, and literary scholars to provide a new social and cultural history of the Great Depression South that moves beyond common stereotypes of the region. Essays by Steven Knepper, Anthony J. Stanonis, and Bryan A. Giemza delve into the literary culture of the 1930s South and the multiple ways authors such as Sterling Brown, Tennessee Williams, and E. P. O’Donnell represented the region to outsiders. Lisa Dorrill and Robert W. Haynes explore connections between artists and the South in essays on New Deal murals and southern dramatists on Broadway. Rejecting traditional views of southern resistance to modernization, Douglas E. Thompson and Ted Atkinson survey the cultural impacts of technological advancement and industrialization. Emily Senefeld, Scott L. Matthews, Rebecca Sharpless, and Melissa Walker compare public representations of the South in the 1930s to the circumstances of everyday life. Finally, Ella Howard, Nicholas Roland, and Robert Hunt Ferguson examine the ways southern governments and activists shaped racial perceptions and realities in Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee. Reassessing the 1930s South provides an interpretation that focuses on the region’s embrace of technological innovation, promotion of government-sponsored programs of modernization, rejection of the plantation legend of the late nineteenth century, and experimentation with unionism and interracialism. Taken collectively, these essays provide a better understanding of the region’s identity, both real and perceived, as well as how southerners grappled with modernity during a decade of uncertainty and economic hardship.