Nashville

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/28/2021
  

  Bob Moore, Key Pillar of the "Nashville Sound", dies at 88`

  "Over 40 years Mr. Moore elevated the bass in country music from a subordinate timekeeper to an instrument capable of considerable tonal and emotional reach."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/21/2021
  

  Tom T. Hall, Writer of Numerous Nashville Hits, Dies at 85

  "In all my writing, I've never made judgments," he said in 1986. "I think that's my secret. I'm a witness. I just watch everything and don't decide if it's good or bad."

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• SOURCE: Nashville Scene
  12/10/2020
  

  New Oral History Project Spotlights Roles of Nashville’s Women Musicians

  Musician and historian Tiffany Minton's new oral history project tackles the stereotype of the Nashville session musician – the backbone of the city's recording industry – as a white guy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2020
  

  When I was 12, John Lewis Talked my Mom into Letting Me March with Him

  Because of Lewis, I got my first chance to protest my city’s and region’s racist policies and practices — from where we could eat, work, live, go to school, swim, party, play sports and even use the taxpayer-funded public restrooms.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-14-18
  

  Nashville Mayor Proposes City Park to Atone for Its Slave History

  As other cities tear down Confederate monuments, the Tennessee capital wants to preserve land for a city park near Fort Negley, which thousands of former slaves built.

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• 6-14-17
  

  Developers in Nashville Are Encroaching on a Civil War Fort Unlike Any Other

  by Ed Hooper

  It was built by thousands of newly-freed slaves, hundreds of whom died in the process.

• SOURCE: Vanderbilt News
  7-25-13
  

  Jon Meacham in residence at Vanderbilt this fall

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham will be a dynamic presence at Vanderbilt University during the fall 2013 semester, teaching a political science course and leading two events open to the general public.“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of the vibrant Vanderbilt world,” said Meacham. “The university seems to be in a kind of golden age–at once culturally exciting and intellectually exacting.”Meacham, executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, was awarded the Pulitzer for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. His most recent book, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller and made many critics’ “best of the year” lists. Meacham is a contributing editor to Time and a former editor of Newsweek. A fellow of the Society of American Historians, he is a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, chairs the National Advisory Board of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, and is a scholar-trustee of the New-York Historical Society....