Tennessee

This article discusses Memphis's role in rock and roll history and evidence supporting the claim that Memphis is the birthplace of rock and roll. Throughout the article, the author also talks about different historic sites and figures in Memphis who were influential in rock and roll history.

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Surprised and almost overwhelmed, he stubbornly refused to admit defeat. His cool conduct saved his army and his job</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A choice between life and honor is a fearful one for any man. Here is the unforgettable story of how it was made by a twenty-one-year-old Confederate private.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Union stood in danger of losing an entire army at Chattanooga. Then U. S. Grant arrived, and directed the most dramatic battle of the Civil War.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The “Monkey Trial” brought two ideologies into a great conflict, and it was very, very hot</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> What has befallen “the greatest peacetime achievement of twentieth-century America”s since the New Deal</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The GIs came home to find that a political machine had taken over their Tennessee county. What they did about it astounded the nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Bessie Smith was the greatest blues singer of all time, and her influence still permeates popular music, though almost no one listens to her records. Here's an appreciation by an eminent jazz singer.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A gracious antebellum city of stern-wheelers and cotton money; a restless, violent city with a hot grain of genius at its heart; a city of calamity, desolation, and rebirth; a city that changed the way the whole world hears music. It’s all the same city, and it is this year’s Great American Place. Thomas Childers answers a summons to Memphis, Tennessee.</span></p>