Additional Resources - HART 2781 - Los Angeles Architecture and Urbanism - Chesney

Image Resources

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Collections from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Access Note: To download images or use other advanced features, individuals must register for an individual user account.
AP Images This link opens in a new window
Associated Press photographs, audio, graphics, news stories, and headlines.

Visual Resources at Vanderbilt
The Vanderbilt University Visual Resources Center resides in the History of Art department and is your sources for finding and properly using high-quality images resources for your papers, presentations, and projects.

NYPL Digital Gallery This link opens in a new window
Digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, etc. representing the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.

Nashville History

Media:

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
On-demand streaming video service for documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases. Films under a current license agreement are available for immediate viewing. Other films may require a request through the Kanopy site. Viewing films in a group forum is permitted as long as the viewing is by Vanderbilt authorized viewers only (current faculty, staff, or students) and it is not for commercial benefit (i.e. no admission costs are charged and no profit is made from the screening).

How to Create Clips in Kanopy

Websites:

Nashville Queer History
Nashville Queer History is a community organization and digital portal whose mission is to research and share the LGBTQ history of Nashville and Middle Tennessee in hopes of inspiring local activism, education, and inclusion.
Vanderbilt Timeline
Explore milestones in Vanderbilt’s history
NPL: Metro Archives
Metro Archives collects and preserves the historically valuable records that document and reflect the history of Nashville and Davidson County. These records include maps and plats, deeds, marriage licenses and bonds, court records, newspapers, manuscripts, recordings, and photographs that date from 1780 to the present.
TN State Museum
The Tennessee State Museum's collection of art and artifacts holds thousands of stories about Tennessee history.
Nashville Public Library
Nashville Public Library (NPL) has a vast collection of Tennessee history and provides free access to many resources. Free digital library cards can be acquired via their website.
Nashville Scene
From investigative cultural and political reporting to looks inside the city's massive arts and entertainment industry, the Scene has developed into a must-read for Nashvillians of all stripes over the past three decades.

Books:

The New Negro in the Old South by Gabriel A. Briggs Standard narratives of early twentieth-century African American history credit the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern metropolises for the emergence of the New Negro, an educated, upwardly mobile sophisticate very different from his forebears. Yet this conventional history overlooks the cultural accomplishments of an earlier generation, in the black communities that flourished within southern cities immediately after Reconstruction.     In this groundbreaking historical study, Gabriel A. Briggs makes the compelling case that the New Negro first emerged long before the Great Migration to the North. The New Negro in the Old South reconstructs the vibrant black community that developed in Nashville after the Civil War, demonstrating how it played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, intellectual, social, and political lives of African Americans in subsequent decades. Drawing from extensive archival research, Briggs investigates what made Nashville so unique and reveals how it served as a formative environment for major black intellectuals like Sutton Griggs and W.E.B. Du Bois.   The New Negro in the Old South makes the past come alive as it vividly recounts little-remembered episodes in black history, from the migration of Colored Infantry veterans in the late 1860s to the Fisk University protests of 1925. Along the way, it gives readers a new appreciation for the sophistication, determination, and bravery of African Americans in the decades between the Civil War and the Harlem Renaissance. 
Publication Date: 2015
The African-American history of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930 : elites and dilemmas by Bobby L. Lovett.
Publication Date: 1999
Nashville : a short history and selected buildings by Eleanor Graham and Gary Gore
Publication Date: 1974
History of Nashville, Tenn., with full outline of the natural advantages, accounts of the Mound builders, Indian tribes, early settlement, organization of the Mero district, and ... history of the city down to the present time ... by John Wooldridge
Publication Date: 1890
Fisk University: History, Building and Site, and Services of Dedication, at Nashville, Tennessee, January 1st, 1876 by Clinton Fisk
Publication Date: 1876
A Walk down Historic Jefferson St by Edward Kindall .A Walk Down Historic Jefferson Street is not just a personal memoir but an historical account of Jefferson Street in Nashville, TN, during the 1940's through the early 1970's. It specifically highlights a gamut of businesses and residents who called the street their home. Special emphasis is also placed on the unique culture of the street that fostered soulful venues and budding musical greats, top quality teachers and educational facilities, and unwavering strength amid a very socio-economic diverse community. Then, it tells the tragic tale of how Jefferson Street and many others smaller streets, towns, and close-knit communities were destroyed by various local, state, and federal governmental decisions that unnecessarily allowed for the interstate intrusion in the late 60's.
Publication Date: 2013
History and physical setting, Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee by Planning Commission of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
Publication Date: 1965