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Your guide to history resources at Mayfield Library.

Tennessee

Southern School News Collection -- Sept 3, 1954-1965.  Each journal impartially reported desegregation of U.S. public schools state by state through primary documentation and statistical evidence. The goal of the publication was to provide "a reliable, central source of information on developments in education arising from the United States Supreme Court decision declaring compulsory racial segregation in the public schools to be unconstitutional."

Tennessee Ancestors -- 2001-current (Bound)  A tri-annual publication of the East Tennessee Historical Society. Not full text online.   Recent issue  This publication is delayed.

Newsline -- Winter 2000 - 2015 Quarterly newsletter of the East Tennessee Historical Society (No longer published.)

Tennessee Conservationist -- 1994 - current (Bound) This has some good Tennessee history articles. Not full text online. The link is an index to what is in the magazine. Issues are in the library.  Bound magazines are on the second floor of the library (main campus).

Tennessee Journal -- 1994 - 2021 (Bound)  (Vol. 2, #46 Senate campaign coverage tells about newspaper coverage for Tenn. politics and government.

The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly -- In the JSTOR database 1902 

Tennessee Magazine -- In the JSTOR database 1915-1937

Tennessee Historical Quarterly -- 1942 -2023 This is indexed and full text in the JSTOR database. The current 3 years are not full text in the database.