Tennessee History

Voter Registration Information

• ActiVote: A Nonpartisan Effort Getting Americans to Vote
• State of Tennessee Voter Registration Information (ActiVote)
• Project Vote Smart
• Declare Yoruself
• Just Vote
• Rock the Vote
• Your Country Your Vote
• Your Vote Matters

Registration and Voting Information for Tennessee Residents

• Division of Elections Voter Registration, Tennessee Department of State
  (How to Register to Vote, Registration Application, Absentee Voting, Voter Registration Change of Address)

Historic Sites in Tennessee

• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
  (Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
• The Hermitage: The Home of Andrew Jackson
• Belle Meade Plantation
• National Heritage Area on the Civil War in Tennessee
  (Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University)
• Tennessee's Civil War Heritage Trail
• Stones River National Battlefield [Murfreesboro, Tennessee] (National Park Service)
• Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
• Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, Inc.
• The Scopes Evolution Trial of 1925 (Rhea County, Tennessee site)
• Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
• Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Folk Music Archives
• Highlander Research and Education Center (New Market, TN)
• Cordell Hull Birthplace and Museum (The Friends of Cordell Hull)
• The Memphis Belle
• Elvis Presley Web Sites
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Ciivil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 [1987, 2006] (American Experience, PBS)
• Sp/4 James "Tom" Davis Killed in Action
• The Farm (Summertown, Tennessee)
• Albert Gore Research Center (Middle Tennessee State University)

Tennessee History and Genealogy

• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
  (Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
• Midlands Frontier Regional Studies Seminar (Middle Tennessee State University)
• Tennessee Electronic Atlas (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee History (Tennessee Anytime official state site)
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
• Tennessee History Day
• Tennessee Conference of Historians: Tennessee and World History, October 11-12, 2002 (East Tennessee State University)
• Tennessee (State and Local Government on the Internet)
• Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Tennessee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
• 2003 Legislative Update (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• Tennessee (United Way State of Caring Index)
• Taxes/Budget (stateline.org)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State to Just the State/Local Tax Burden, 2002 (Tax Foundation)
• Tennessee Dollars: Where Do They Come From? Where Do They Go? (NPT-TV, PBS Nashville)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Government Guide: Government Services Made Easy
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (United States Census Bureau)
• USA Statistics in Brief (United States Census Bureau)
• Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (American Factfinder, U.S. Bureau of the Census)
• Appalachian Regional Commission
• National Digital Newspaper Program
• Economic Profiles of the 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia
  (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School)
• 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• EconData.Net: Your Guide to Regional Economic Data on the Web
• Census State Data Centers (United States Census)
• State and Local Government on the Internet
• Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
  (Government Performance Project)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Tennessee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• Council of State Governments
• National Governors Association
• National Conference of Lieutenant Governors
• National Council of State Legislatures
• Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Tennessee Facts at a Glance (Education Week)
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• College Affordability in Jeopardy: A Special Supplement to National Crosstalk
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Who Will Stay and Who Will Leave? (Southern Growth Policies Board)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States
  (Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Division of Budget (official state site)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• Annual Tennessee State Budget Summaries and Annual Factbook (Senate and House Finance, Ways and Means Committee, Tennessee General Assembly)
• Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee Statistical Abstract
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Tennessee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Information on Tennessee Communities (Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development)
• Bureau of Business and Economic Research (University of Memphis)
• Tennessee Center for Labor-Management Relations
• How to Register to Vote in the United States (registervote.com)
• National Campus Voter Registration Project Organizing Handbook (Your Vote, Your Voice)
• Registration and Voting Information in the State of Tennessee (registervote.com)
• NetCampaigns.com
• State Net (to check on status of bills)
• State Historical Preservation Offices List
• Election 2000 (State Net)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
• Gallup Opinion Polls on line
• Gallup Research Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• National Opinion Research Center
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (University of Connecticut)
• Zogby International
• American Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy 1999
  (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
• Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.
• Middle Tennessee Poll
  (The Survey Group at Middle Tennessee State University)
• Online Resource Center (Appalachian Regional Commission)
• Southern Growth Policies Board (Research Triangle Park, NC)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Appalachianpower (B.D. Lewis)
• State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
• Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
• Tennessee Blue Book (Tennessee Secretary of State)
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
  (Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
• Office of Vital Records, Tennessee Department of Health [birth, death, marriage and divorce records]
• Ask a librarian (History and Genealogy Reading Room, Library of Congress)
• Tennessee Online (Tennessee Historical Commission)
• H-Tennessee: Tennessee History and Culture Network (H-Net)
• Tennessee Historical Society
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
  (Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Tennessee Historical Quarterly
• Tennessee Historical Commission
• Historic Nashville
• Who's Who in Nashville History (Nashville Public Library)
• Nashville Historical Newsletter
• Metro [Nashville] Historical Commission
• Tennessee State Museum
• Master List of Historic Sites & Museums in Tennessee (Tennessee Historical Commission)
• Tennessee Constitution (pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader>
• History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
• Tennessee Tech Library
• Tennessee Tech Library Catalog (login: PAC)
• Regional History Sources (Tennessee Tech Library)
• University Archives (Tennessee Tech Library)
• Tennessee Humanities Council
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville History
• Tennessee (State and Local Government on the Internet)
• Tennessee (Law Library of Congress)
• Tennessee Higher Education and State Government Sites
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (American Factfinder, U.S. Bureau of the Census)
• Center for Business and Economic Research Publications (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• University of Tennessee Press
• A Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973-1996, edited by W. Calvin Dickinson and Eloise R. Hitchcock
• Tennesseans and Their History by Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith
• Tennessee History: The Land, the People, and the Culture, ed. Carroll Van West
• James B. Jones, Jr., Every Day in Tennessee History (1996)
• Tennessee Tales That Textbooks Don't Tell by Jennie Ivey, Calvin Dickinson, and Lisa Rand (Johnson City, TN : The Overmountain Press, 2002)
• Tennessee History (The Overmountain Press)
• Southern History.net
• Tennessee History
• Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850 (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee History (Tennessee Anytime official state site)
• Tennessee State Library and Archives (Nashville, TN)
• Society of Tennessee Archivists
• Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources (TN. State Library and Archives)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• National Guard Bibliographies (Center of Military History)
• The Archives of Appalachia (East Tennessee State University)
• Tennessee Technological University Archives (TTU Library)
• Tennessee History newsletter
• Tennessee Historical and Genealogical Societies
• East Tennessee Historical Society
• Culture of the Upper Cumberland by Michael Birdwell and Calvin Dickinson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)
• Historic Nashville
• Who's Who in Nashville History (Nashville Public Library)
• Nashville Historical Newsletter
• Metro [Nashville] Historical Commission
• West Tennessee Historical Society (Memphis, TN)
• AppalachianPower.com
• Appalachian Studies Bibliography (West Virginia University Libraries)
• Center for Appalachian Studies and Services (East Tennessee State University)
• Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine
• Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
• Tennessee Genealogy (TNGenWeb)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Historical and Genealogical Information (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• Bibliography of Military Records on Microfilm (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University)
• Tennessee Renaissance Festival (Triune, TN)
• Heritage Trails (Tennessee Department of Tourism official site)
• Tennessee Chronicles (SouthDoc Productions)
• Tennessee Society, Sons of the American Revolution
• The Hermitage: The Home of Andrew Jackson
• Belle Meade Plantation
• Communal Studies Association
• Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee
  (B. L. Lovett and L. T. Wynn, Tennessee State University)
• Getting the Message Out: National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Northern Illinois University)
• Remember the Alamo (American Experience, PBS)
• Civil War Research Sources (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• National Heritage Area on the Civil War in Tennessee
  (Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University)
• Tennessee's Civil War Heritage Trail
• Tennessee Civil War Home Page (J. Weaver)
• Tennessee and the Civil War (USGenNet)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Civil War Research Center
  (Tennessee's Backroads Heritage/Motlow State Community College)
• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States (K. Fraser)
• Links to Other [Civil War] Sites (K. Fraser)
• Civil War Research Center (Motlow State Community College)
• Stones River National Battlefield [Murfreesboro, Tennessee] (National Park Service)
• Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
• Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, Inc.
• The Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• The United Daughters of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA)
• Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Rebels with a Cause (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Tennesseans in World War I (Debbie McConnel)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• TNHIST list for the Discussion of Tennessee History
• The Life of Alvin C. York (Alvin C. York Institute)
• Ratification of the 19th Amendment, Tennessee, August 24, 1920 (National Archives)
• The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage
• Tennessee Women in Science & Technology
• Visit Beale Street
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s (Ohio State University)
• Kulturkampfen ("Wars for Civilization") of the 1920s (Assumption College)
• Tennessee vs. John Scopes: The "Monkey Trial"
  (Famous Trials in American History, University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School)
• The Scopes Evolution Trial of 1925 (Rhea County, Tennessee site)
• TVA: Electricity for All (New Deal Network, Marist College)
• Tennessee in the 1930s (New Deal Network)
• Tennessee: A Guide to the State [WPA Guide] (New Deal Network)
• Highlander Research and Education Center (New Market, TN)
• Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
• Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Folk Music Archives
• History of Country Music (Roughstock Productions)
• Cordell Hull Birthplace and Museum (The Friends of Cordell Hull)
• Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• The Memphis Belle
• William E. Maxwell, "Reds, Whites, and Blues: World War II and Memphis, Tennessee"
• William E. Maxwell, "Beans, Blankets, and Barbed Wire: The Memphis Army Service Forces Depot in World War II"
• National World War II Memorial (American Battlefield Monuments Commission)
• World War II Registry of Remembrances (National World War II Memorial)
• Elvis Presley Web Sites
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Ciivil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 [1987, 2006] (American Experience, PBS)
• Sp/4 James "Tom" Davis Killed in Action
• Communal Studies Association
• The Farm (Summertown, Tennessee)
• The Ecovillage Network of the America
• Albert Gore Research Center (Middle Tennessee State University)
• 50 Years of Tennessee Politics and Elections [since 1948] (Jackson-Crockett Company)
• Tennessee information (The Pew Center on the States)
• State of Tennessee Government and Politics (Project Vote Smart)
• Tennessee (The States Inventory Project: States.org)
• Tennessee State Government Officials (Policy.com)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (United States Census Bureau)
• USA Statistics in Brief (United States Census Bureau)
• Census State Data Centers (United States Census Bureau)
• State Profile: Tennessee State-by-State Guide to Doing Business (Enterpreneur.com)
• Tennessee Statistical Abstract 2000
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• Annual Tennessee State Budget summaries and Annual Factbook
  (Senate and House Finance, Ways and Means Committee,Tennessee General Assembly)
  
• [Tennessee] Searchsystems.net: your public record information network
• Information on Tennessee Communities (Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development)
• Bureau of Business and Economic Research (University of Memphis)
• Tennessee Center for Labor-Management Relations
• Tennessee (State and Local Government on the Internet)
• Tennessee State and Local Government (Library of Congress)
• State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
• Tennessee Anytime.com (Official Tennessee site)
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Tennessee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Tennessee Municipal League (official site)
• Political Candidates of Tennessee (Aeneas Internet Service)
• TennesseePolitics (NewSource Business Intelligence)
• Tennessee Driver License Renewal
• Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
  (Government Performance Project)
• Economic Profiles of the 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia
  (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School)
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• College Affordability in Jeopardy: A Special Supplement to National Crosstalk
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• Measuring Up 2000: The State-By-State Report Card on Higher Education
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• Southern Regional Education Board
• Fact Book on Higher Education 2001
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Tennessee Featured Facts
  (SREB Fact Book on Higher Education)
  [.pdf format requires Adobe Acorbat Reader]
• StateStandards.com: State Educational Standards Coupled to Lesson Plans and Resources
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Tennessee Facts at a Glance (Education Week)
• Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Report Card 2000 (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• Division of Elections, Tennessee Department of State
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Tennessee (United Way State of Caring Index)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Tennessee State Budget summaries and Annual Factbook (Senate and House Ways and Mean Committee, Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Taxes/Budget (stateline.org)
• Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State to Just the State/Local Tax Burden, 2002 (Tax Foundation)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• Tennessee Division of Budget (official state site)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
• Tennessee Dollars: Where Do They Come From? Where Do They Go? (NPT-TV, PBS Nashville)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• 2005 Legislative Update (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• Tennessee (Law Library of Congress)
• Tennessee (State and Local Government on the Internet)
• Tennessee Congressional District Map
• Tennessee General Assembly
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Tennessee Legislative Internship Program (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Senate District Map
• Tennessee Senate (e-mail links)
• e-mail to Senator Charlotte Burks (D-Senate District 15
• Tennessee House District Map
• Tennessee House of Representatives (e-mail links)
• e-mail to Representative Henry Fincher (D-House District 42
• Tennessee Supreme Court
• Tennessee Blue Book (Tennessee Secretary of State's Office)
• 1999 Development Report Card for the States: Tennessee (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
  ( .pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Tennessee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Who Will Stay and Who Will Leave? (Southern Growth Policies Board)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Lewis J. Laska, "A History of Personal Income Taxation in Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Winter 2001): 220-243.
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State to Just the State/Local Tax Burden, 2002 (Tax Foundation)
• Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Tennessee Facts at a Glance (Education Week)
• Tennessee Teacher Employment Resource (Tennessee Department of Education
• Tennessee School Report Card (Nashville) Tennessean newspaper)
• Rural School and Community Trust
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• Tennessee newspapers (American Journalism Review's NewsLink)
• Tennessee Newspaper links (Yahoo)
• The Tennessee Journal: The Weekly Insiders Newsletter
  on Tennessee Government, Politics & Business
• Tennessee Business & Legal Center
• Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council
• [Labor] Links (Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council)
• Tennessee Labor Links
• Tennessee Center for Labor-Management Relations (MTSU)
• Tennessee Center for Labor-Management Relations
• Tennessee State Parks (TN. Department of Environment and Conservation)
• Knoxville News-Sentinel
• Chattanooga Times Free Press
• Chattanooga Regional History Museum
• Chattanooga African American Museum
• Creative Discovery Museum (Chattanooga, TN)
• Tennessee Aquarium and the IMAX 3D Theater (Chattanooga, TN)
• Warner Park Zoo (Chattanooga, TN)
• Give Me Nashville.com
• The [Nashville] City Paper
• Nashville Digest
• Nashville Scene
• Historic Nashville
• Metro [Nashville] Historical Commission
• Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
• Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, Tennessee)
• The Memphis Guide
• The [Memphis] Commercial Appeal (Go Memphis)

Tennessee Library and Archives Connections

• Online Resource Center (Appalachian Regional Commission)
• Tennessee Libraries and Museums on the Web
• A Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973-1996, edited by W. Calvin Dickinson and Eloise R. Hitchcock
• Tennesseans and Their History by Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith
• Tennessee History: The Land, the People, and the Culture, ed. Carroll Van West
• Tennessee Tech Library
• Tennessee Tech Online Card Catalog
• Tennessee Tech Library Catalog (login: PAC)
• Regional History Sources (Tennessee Tech Library)
• University Archives (Tennessee Tech Library)
• Government Publications, Maps, and Microforms Department (TTU Library)
• Putnam County Library
• Upper Cumberland Regional Library
• Nashville Public Library
• Nashville Area Library Alliance and Project ATHENA
• Information about Fisk University Library
• Library Catalogs & Online Databases (Nashville Public Library)
• Nashville Public Library Online Catalog
• Tennessee History (Tennessee Anytime official state site)
• Tennessee State Library and Archives (Nashville, TN)
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
  (Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Tennessee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Tennessee Electronic Atlas (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee State Museum
• Society of Tennessee Archivists
• Tennessee State Library & Archives Online Catalog
• Libraries and Media Centers Online Catalogs (Tennessee State University)
• UT-Knoxville Online Library Information System (OLIS)
• Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Vanderbilt University)
• Tennessee Electronic Library (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• Tennessee State Library and Archives (Nashville, TN)
• Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources (TN. State Library and Archives)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• The Archives of Appalachia (ETSU)
• Southern Labor Archives (Georiga State University)
• Tennessee Center for Labor-Management Relations (MTSU)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)

Public Opinion Polling and Research

• The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
• National Council on Public Polls
• Gallup Opinion Polls on line
• Gallup Research Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Ipsos Reid: Global Marketing Research and Public Opinion
• Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.
• Middle Tennessee Poll (The Survey Group at Middle Tennessee State University)
• National Opinion Research Center
• PollingReport.com
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (University of Connecticut)
• Zogby International

Last updated on October 3, 2007

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