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Strong Inside
Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Andrew Maraniss, Derrick E. White, Louis Moore
March 2024
Malicious Intent
Murder and the Perpetuation of Jim Crow Health Care
David Barton Smith
October 2023
Welcome to Capitol Hill
Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics
Joel Ebert, Erik Schelzig, Bill Haslam, David Boucher
August 2023
Deep Dish Conversations
Voices of Social Change in Nashville
Jerome Moore, Sekou Franklin, Jorge Salles Diaz, Carlos Lara, Christiane Buggs, Calvin Bryant, Dawn Deaner, Jamel Campbell-Gooch, Joshua Black, Rahim Buford, Sheila Calloway, Theeda Murphy, Tim Wise, Will Acuff, Marcus Trotter-Lockett, Emma Crownover
May 2023
We Shall Overcome
Press Photographs of Nashville during the Civil Rights Era
Kathryn E. Delmez, John Lewis
May 2023
A Word on Words
The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews
Pat Toomay, Frye Gaillard, Andrew Maraniss, Arna Bontemps, John Egerton, John Lewis, David Halberstam, Jesse Hill Ford, Pat Conroy, Ann Patchett, Dori Sanders, Alice Randall, Nikki Giovanni, Marshall Chapman, Marty Stuart, Rodney Crowell, Waylon Jennings, Kinky Friedman, Charles Fountain, William Marshall, William Price Fox, Jon Meacham, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Maraniss, John Michael Seigenthaler
March 2023
Ghosts Over the Boiler
Voices from Alabama's Death Row
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, Katie Owens-Murphy
March 2023
Wizards
David Duke, America's Wildest Election, and the Rise of the Far Right
Brian Fairbanks
October 2022
Hot Spot
A Doctor's Diary From the Pandemic
Alex Jahangir, Katie Seigenthaler, James E. K. Hildreth
September 2022
The People’s Plaza
Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance
Justin Jones, William J. Barber II
August 2022
The Sculpture of William Edmondson
Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework
Marin R. Sullivan, Renee Ater, Kela Jackson, Ellen Macfarlane, Anne Monahan, Betsy Phillips, Learotha Williams Jr.
September 2021
Voyage of the Adventure
Retracing the Donelson Party's Journey to the Founding of Nashville
John Guider, Jeff Sellers, Albert Bender Jr, Learotha Williams Jr., Carroll Van West
August 2021
I'll Take You There
Exploring Nashville's Social Justice Sites
Amie Thurber, Learotha Williams Jr.
May 2021
Crossing the Aisle
How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America
Keel Hunt
November 2018
Breach of Peace
Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
Eric Etheridge
September 2018
Coup
The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal
Keel Hunt, John L. Seigenthaler, Lamar Alexander
November 2017
American Ballads
The Photographs of Marty Stuart
Kathryn E. Delmez, Marty Stuart, Susan H. Edwards
July 2014
Creation Story
Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial
Mark W. Scala
May 2012
Peabody College
From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning
Paul K. Conkin
November 2002
Classical Nashville
Athens of the South
Christine M. Kreyling, Wesley Paine, Charles W. Warterfield, Susan Ford Wiltshire
October 1996
