James B. Jones holds a doctorate in history and historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of five books and some forty articles on Volunteer State history for such publications as the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, The Public Historian, Civil War History, West Tennessee Historical Society papers, East Tennessee Historical Society publications, and the Tennessee Historical Commission newsletter, The Courier. He has worked for thirty-five years as a public historian for the Tennessee Historical Commission/State Historic Preservation Office in Nashville. He lives with his spouse and their four cats in Murfreesboro.
President Harry S. Truman once said, "The only thing new is the history you don't know." It's not too much to suggest he may have anticipated History in Tennessee: Lost...
Troubled Times in Tennessee is a detailed look at various lost or hidden aspects of Tennessee history. Historians of the Volunteer State’s past have overlooked the stories in these chapters...
