Skip to main content

It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.

Tennessee History: Home

Starting Points

Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
This fully searchable version of the print edition (1998) contains over 1,500 entries.
Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee
Digital Library of Tennessee
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

Related Guides

Historical Newspapers

Chronicling America

Historical Nashville Tennessean
Fulltext digital archive of The Nashville Tennessean newspaper, 1812-2002.
Historical Chicago Defender
"Tennessee State News" section includes a large number of articles about towns in the state.

Walker Library: Newspapers by State

Historical Maps

Fire Insurance Maps Online (FIMo): SEE Library of Congress Sanborn Maps Collection

Maps show building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information.
How to search FIMo
How to interpret Sanborn Maps
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970

Census / Records / Stats

HeritageQuest Online

Need help getting started? Consult these Research Aids

Tennessee Records on Ancestry.com

Social Explorer

Download or create interactive maps and tables using 220 years of demographic data with over 20,000 socio-economic indicators between 1790 and the present. Includes all decennial censuses, American Community Surveys, and two religion surveys.
Historical Statistics of the United States

Last Updated: Dec 21, 2020 9:36 AM
URL: https://library.mtsu.edu/tennessee
Print Page

Subjects: History, Tennessee

Tags: digital collections, history, primary sources, tennessee