As a player, he led the University of Tennessee football team to an undefeated season and nearly won the Heisman Trophy, the college game’s highest individual honor. After a brief career in professional football, he became a college coach and won a national championship at the University of Pittsburgh. He then returned as the head coach at the University of Tennesseee and brought his alma mater back to national prominence.

Johnny Majors celebrates his 78^th birthday today – and the Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) wants to mark the occasion by making Tennesseans aware of the vast collection of materials the library has available for public inspection that document Majors’ career.

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Representatives from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tennessee State Museum will be in Bolivar on June 7th to record and digitize Civil War memorabilia owned by local residents for a new exhibit.

Archivists will be at the Bolivar City Hall, 211 North Washington Street in Bolivar, from 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on June 7th. During that time, they invite area residents to bring in photographs, documents and other artifacts related to the Civil War.

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Representatives from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tennessee State Museum will be in Somerville on June 6th to record and digitize Civil War memorabilia owned by local residents for a new exhibit.

Archivists will be at the Somerville-Fayette County Public Library, 216 West Market Street in Somerville, from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. on June 6th. During that time, they invite area residents to bring in photographs, documents and other artifacts related to the Civil War.

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Representatives from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tennessee State Museum will be in Sewanee May 28 to record and digitize Civil War memorabilia owned by local residents for a new exhibit.

Archivists will be at the University of the South Archives, 81 Alabama Avenue in Sewanee, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. that day. During that time, they invite area residents to bring in photographs, documents and other artifacts related to the Civil War.

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Many families have great stories to tell - which can often be unearthed by searching through family videos, photo albums, or journals passed down from generation to generation. However, for some people, the idea of starting such a project is daunting. The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) has just the event to ease the stress of beginning family research.

The free workshop, called "Placing Leaves, Flowers, and a Few Nuts on Your Family Tree," will be held Saturday, June 1 from 9:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. in the TSLA Auditorium. Author Jim Taulman will discuss the process of gathering and recording information for a family history.

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It was the constitutional amendment that tried – often unsuccessfully – to put Americans on the path to sobriety and in the process created a booming market for Tennessee’s providers of illegal moonshine whiskey.

The 18^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which launched the Prohibition era in 1920, was called the country’s “noble experiment.” That experiment ended 13 years later with the ratification of the 21^st Amendment – the only amendment to repeal another amendment - which halted Prohibition and brought imbibing back out of the shadows.

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Sixty-five students from the Volunteer State have qualified for a trip to Maryland this summer after their projects were judged the best of the best at Tennessee History Day over the weekend.

History Day is an event in which students in grades six through 12 present history-themed projects in a variety of formats – including museum-style exhibits, research papers, web sites, documentaries and live performances.

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