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From our friends at the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a> (the wonderful folks who help make the National Digital Newspaper Program possible!):<\/p>\n

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Decoration Day Parade (Brownsville, Texas), 1916. Robert Runyon, photographer. Photo Courtesy of The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. Runyon (Robert) Photograph Collection, RUN01326..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did you know that Memorial Day used to be known as Decoration Day?\u00a0 Or that the practice of honoring the war dead during spring first arose in the South as the Civil War ended?\u00a0 For more on the fascinating history of this holiday, please see our new web feature authored by Ralph Canevali.\u00a0 Historic newspapers from around the country are featured!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/divisions\/preservation\/featured-project\/the-evolution-memorial-day<\/a><\/p>\n

To find out how Memorial Day was commemorated historically in Tennessee, use the Advanced Search<\/a> in Chronicling America<\/em> to search for Decoration Day or Memorial Day, and limit your search to Select State: Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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Maryville Times [Tennessee]. May 28, 1898.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From our friends at the National Endowment for the Humanities (the wonderful folks who help make the National Digital Newspaper Program possible!): Did you know that Memorial Day used to be known as Decoration Day?\u00a0 Or that the practice of honoring the war dead during spring first arose in the South as the Civil War … Continue reading The Evolution of Memorial Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Evolution of Memorial Day - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2017\/05\/26\/evolution-memorial-day\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/\",\"name\":\"Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"description\":\"A joint effort between the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee State Library and Archives\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2017\/05\/26\/evolution-memorial-day\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/files\/2017\/05\/NEHmemorialDay-blog-300x216.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2017\/05\/26\/evolution-memorial-day\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2017\/05\/26\/evolution-memorial-day\/\",\"name\":\"The Evolution of Memorial Day - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2017\/05\/26\/evolution-memorial-day\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-26T17:24:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-05-26T17:32:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2017\/05\/26\/evolution-memorial-day\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":[\"Person\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\",\"name\":\"Louisa Trott\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/248de97c24fafb9aaf91f3883154fb4a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Louisa Trott\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}