The Fall Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society will be held in Martin, Tennesse on November 3rd at the Weldon Public Library, 100 Main Street, at 10 a.m. The program will begin at 10:30 a.m. The featured speaker will be Richard Saunders, Interim Director of Library Services at the University of Tennesse at Martin. His presentation is titled “Race and Population Shifts in the Jackson Purchase and West Tennessee.” He is the author of Never Been Rich the Life and Work of a Southern Ruralist Writer, Harry Harrison Kroll and numerous articles on racial demographics, civil rights movements and…

Bestselling author Jonathan Sarna will discuss his provocative new book When General Grant Expelled the Jews at the McCraken County Public Library on November 15, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. The book examines the profound and still relevant questions regarding the document known as General Orders Number 11, a footnote to Civil War history. Dr. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History. Dubbed by the Forward newspaper in 2004 as one of America’s fifty most influential American Jews, he…