You can search the Catalog in several ways:
Keyword Search: Enter one or more keywords to search for a topic. Terms may be found anywhere. (ex: Tennessee and slavery)
Author Search: Enter last name, first name to search for all works by an author. (ex: Toomey, Glenn)
Title Search: Enter a title to find a particular work. (ex: The Graves of Old Gray Cemetery)
Subject Search: Enter a subject term to find specific material. Terms will be found only in subject headings (ex: Tennessee--Court Records--Blount County)
For comprehensive coverage of Tennessee history see the heading: Tennessee -- History
It may be broken down further by time period. For example: Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
You may also wish to research individual counties or cities in Tennessee. Example: Shelby County or Memphis
African-Americans -- Civil Rights -- Tennessee -- Memphis
Blues (Music) -- Tennessee -- Memphis
Cemeteries--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil Rights Movements -- Tennessee -- Memphis
Memphis -- African-Americans -- Tennessee
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Church history
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Politics and Government
Memphis -- Historic Buildings -- Tennessee
Medicine -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History
Shelby County (Tenn.) -- History
Shelby County (Tenn.) -- Newspapers
Shelby County (Tenn.) -- Population
Streets - Tennessee -- Memphis
Under the Library of Congress Classification System, books on history and genealogy woud be located as follows:
CS 1 - 3900 - Genealogy, General Family History (third floor)
CT 21 - 9999 - General Biography
F 420 - 445 - Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis history