West, Carroll Van, ed. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1998. 1193pp.
Standard source for biographical information about individuals who have played important roles in the history of Tennessee.

Specialized Biographical Sources

The following sections include references to specialized biographical sources.

• African Americans
• Arts & Crafts
• Civil War
• Education
• Legal History
• Libraries
• Medicine
• Music
• Politics/Government
• Religion
• Spanish American War
• Women
• World War I
• Writers

Additional Biographical Sources

• Biographical Index to Tennessee Women
• City Directories at the Tennessee State Library and Archives
• Social Security Death Index
• Tennessee Newspaper Obituary Indexes in Public Libraries [TSLA]
• TNGenWeb [Genealogy]