In addition, major periodicals were searched for relevant articles. Many technical items, and also many maps, were deliberately excluded, as an effort was made to confine the list to sources useful to the general public. This list is only a beginning for source material on Tennessee counties, towns, schools, churches, battlefields, and historic sites. No list such as this one can substitute for source material found only at the local level. The Bibliography is arranged by county, with sources treating the county as a whole followed by sources on towns, significant events, historic sites and institutions of higher learning.
Some counties have several categories of entries, while others have only one or two.
Staff members at TSLA who worked on the Bibliography are Ronald Lee and Fran Schell, both of whom are anxious to improve the list, add to it, and make it available to interested persons. The Bibliography was prepared in Word 6.0 and is available in paper, on disc, and via the TSLA Homepage.