About Me

I have always had a love of history. I can’t exactly remember when I first understood what the word meant, but the past has always had a drawing power on me. I always dreamed of making a career as a museum curator, teacher, park ranger, or historian and I have a passion for finding stories that have been overlooked and forgotten. I feel like history is the moral compass of the humanities and can guide us into a better future.

L-R: Playing a Steinway upright piano used in the 1927 Bristol Sessions "The Big Bang of Country Music"; interviewing Graham Egerton Higgs about his family history in Rugby, Tennessee; my Davy Crockett costume from the Halloween of 2003

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This monthly newsletter will go out the first and third Friday of each month and will feature an article that I have written or an interesting piece that I came across while doing research. The newsletter is free and will stay that way.

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Jordan E. Hughett

@jordanehughett

Since I was a child, I have been fascinated with stories in the past. History has served as a guiding point and continues to inspire me to this day.