DEAR FOLKS: The Eighth Grade edition is no longer available on line since it is being converted to a colorful and compact PRINT EDITION that makes a fabulous "mini Tennessee history textbook." 

These booklets will be available on August 1, 2011.

Please tune in then to learn how you can get copies.
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EIGHTH GRADE
 
Tennessee has the most interesting history of any state in America -- it's violent and it's complicated and it's even bizarre at times. As you read it you'll find yourself amazed, and sad, and angry, and proud, sometimes at the same time.

Table of contents:

Intro                                                           Whose history is it, anyway?             
One                                                            What we know from the ground     
Two                                                            Tribes and clans            
Three                                                         The first Europeans        
Four                                                           Tennessee's bloody origins      
Five                                                            New nation and statehood    
Six                                                             The wild west era         
Seven                                                        Andrew Jackson    
Eight                                                         The Trail of Tears      
Nine                                                          Railroads and Westward Expansion    
Ten                                                            The coming war     
Eleven                                                       Slaughter and chaos      
Twelve                                                      Reconstruction        
This Eighth Grade Text was written by Bill Carey in close consultation with the following people: Steve Reddick (Eighth Grade Teacher, Oak Ridge City Schools), Brenda Ables (Social Studies Coordinator for the Department of Education), Amy Byrum (parent, Mt. Juliet), Dr. Pamela Bobo (assistant professor of history, Tennessee State University); and Dr. Derek Frisby (assistant professor of history, Middle Tennessee State University).