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Books

Hankins, Caneta Skelley, and Michael Thomas Gavin, Barns of Tennessee (2009).
Produced in cooperation with the staff and readers of The Tennessee Magazine and The Donning Company, this book documents Tennessee’s agrarian history through its most prominent built feature, its barns.

West, Carroll Van, and Margaret Duncan Binnicker, eds., A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons (2004).
Cosponsored by the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Tennessee Historical Society, this resource covers the rich variety of art in Tennessee as revealed in visual arts and architecture, crafts arts, literary arts, performance arts, and music. 

West, Carroll Van, Trial and Triumph: Readings in Tennessee’s African-American Past (2002).
This edited anthology, published by the University of Tennessee Press, is the first such book on Tennessee history in 20 years.

West, Carroll Van, Tennessee’s New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook (2001).
Published by the University of Tennessee Press, this is the first such statewide book to focus on the many New Deal-era structures, buildings, and parks.

West, Carroll Van, Connie L. Lester, Margaret Duncan Binnicker, Anne-Leslie Owens, and Susan L. Gordon, eds., Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (1998).
This major reference work includes over 1,500 entries prepared by 560 authors. Published the Tennessee Historical Society in cooperation with Rutledge Hill Press, it was the co-winner of the Tennessee History Book Award and received an ASLH Award of Merit in 1999. It is available on-line with additional entries and photographs.

West, Carroll Van, Tennessee History: The Land, the People, and the Culture (1998).
This edited anthology was published by the University of Tennessee Press.

West, Carroll Van, Tennessee’s Historical Landscapes (1995).
This statewide study of history and architecture was published by the University of Tennessee Press.

West, Carroll Van, Capitalism on the Frontier: The Transformation of Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century (1993).
Published by the University of Nebraska Press.

West, Carroll Van, Images of Billings (1990).
This photographic history of Billings, Montana, was published by the Western Heritage Center Press.

West, Carroll Van, Tennessee Agriculture: A Century Farms Perspective (1987).
This descriptive history of 783 Century Farms was published by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.

West, Carroll Van, A Traveler’s Companion to Montana History (1986).
This analysis of 23 Montana cultural landscapes was published by the Montana Historical Society Press.