An Overview of Federal Work Relief Projects in Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley, 1933–1942 An Introduction by David H. Dye
Part I. Archaeologists and the New Deal
Chapter 1. W. C. McKern as Adviser, Consultant, and Godfather for New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee by Marlin F. Hawley and David H. Dye
Chapter 2. New Deal Archaeology and the Chicago Method by Jessica R. Howe
Chapter 3. William S. Webb and the Paradoxical Leadership of TVA Archaeology by Douglas W. Schwartz
Part II. Archaeology and the New Deal in Tennessee
Chapter 4. Reinterpreting the Shell Mound Archaic in Western Tennessee: A GIS-Based Approach to Radiocarbon Sampling of New Deal–Era Site Collections by Thaddeus G. Bissett
Chapter 5. Depression-Era Archaeology in the Watts Bar Reservoir, East Tennessee by Shannon Koerner and Jessica Dalton-Carriger
Chapter 6. WPA Excavations at the Mound Bottom and Pack Sites in Middle Tennessee, 1936-1940 by Michael C. Moore, David H. Dye, and Kevin E. Smith
Chapter 7. Reconfiguring the Chickamauga Basin by Lynne P. Sullivan
Chapter 8. Bioarchaeological Analysis of the WPA Mound Bottom Skeletal Sample by Heather Worne, Giovanna M. Vidoli, and Dawnie Wolfe Steadman
Part III. The Legacy of the New Deal
Chapter 9. The Tennessee Archaeological Society from 1944 to 1985: Legacy and Consequences of the New Deal in Tennessee by Kevin E. Smith
Chapter 10. Tennessee's New Deal Archaeology on the National Stage by Bernard K. Means
Chapter 11. Comments on New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee, Then and Now by Gerald F. Schroedl