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The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions--but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy window displays: "So the heart of American military power is a shopping mall?" In a sense, yes: the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems....
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"Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War...
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Abstract: Over 100 audio-recorded interviews of individuals recalling their experiences at Union Station as travelers, railroad or station employees, relatives of employees, or in other capacities. Recollections span the time frame from the construction and dedication of the station in the late 1890s to the time of the interviews in the mid-1970s. Further details about topics discussed and interview participants may be found in the collection finding...
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Abstract: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews.
Scope and content: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews, most dating from...
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Abstract: Photographs, slides (including briefings on health-related topics), audio letters home, and an oral history interview, documenting the Air Force careers of Kathy (Creager) Cash and her husband, Grady, from 1967 to 1995. Kathy was a nurse and later was instrumental in the health promotion field, and the majority of the materials in the collection document her work in these areas.
Scope and content: Snapshot photographs, mostly in color,...
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Abstract: Scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings and audio recordings documenting the lives of African-Americans Thomas W. Southall, especially his career in the army, particularly his service in Germany in the 1950s, building radio sites; and his wife, Myrtle Forcey-Southall, who performed under the name, Myrtle Wilson, as a contortionist and dancer, and under her later stage name, Joyce Jackson, as a jazz singer. She performed in jazz clubs on...
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Abstract: Series I: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and related materials written and compiled by James D. Andrews which document his efforts and advocacy for a new airport in Nashville, Tenn. in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Contains information about Blackwood Field, McConnell Field, Sky Harbor airport near Murfreesboro, and Nashville Municipal Airport, also known as Berry Field, as well as a variety of other aviation-related topics.
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Abstract: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and related materials written and compiled by James D. Andrews which document his efforts and advocacy for a new airport in Nashville, Tenn.
Scope and content: Manuscripts, primarily consisting of original and copy letters, and news clippings relating to activities of Nashville real estate agent James D. Andrews and the subject of aviation in Nashville during the 1920s and 1930s, especially the creation...
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Abstract: Scrapbook created by an unidentified member of the Granbery family of Nashville, Tenn., probably Mrs. W.L. Granbery, consisting of news clippings, postcards, photographs and manuscripts, primarily concerning events in Nashville and Nashvillians during World War I. Most items are undated.
Scope and content: Newspaper clippings include poems, general war news, casualty numbers, actions of the 117th Regiment, 114th Field Artillery, and the...