History

A tiny perfect bound leather book held between a thumb and index and middle fingers

The Odd and Rare

Celebrate UT Knoxville’s 225 year with treasures from the UT Libraries’ Special Collections.

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Donde Plowman

Ninth Chancellor Appointed

Donde Plowman has returned to UT Knoxville to serve as the campus’ ninth chancellor.

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Ryan Windeknecht walks around his philosophy classroom with an oversize yellow notepad

Game On!

In some classrooms, learning really is fun and games.

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Ancient Harvest

Want to try some sumpweed?

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collage of images from the 30s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s

Historic Timeline and Memorable Moments: 1917 – 2017

Noteworthy, events, people and moments from the past century

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I Will Hold

Clifton Cates was a 1916 UT graduate and a World War I hero.

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UT President Joe DiPietro, Jim Haslam, Natalie Haslam, UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek and Steve Mangum, dean of the James A. Haslam II College of Business

Historic Naming

The newly named James A. Haslam II College of Business honors one of the university’s greatest benefactors and his family.…

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John Hodges

Life in the Delta

John Hodges shares insights as son of a sharecropper

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From War to Writing to the World

Veteran Charles Herd found his place as a chamber of commerce executive

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Return to Sender

John Schlatter matches WWII postcards with families

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Pat Summitt Plaza dedication

Honoring a Legend

Pat Summitt's legacy will forever be enshrined on the UT Knoxville campus with the addition of the Pat Summitt Plaza,…

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Gorup of Survivors

Uncovering Secrets

Investigation of a World War II Practice Invasion Lives on at UT.

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Classroom to Battlefield

Classroom to Battlefield

Despite having few individual records on UT students who fought in the Civil War, some jewels of information still remain.…

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Civil War on Campus

The Hill in Knoxville was quite a different place 150 years ago — not just because it was an earlier…

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Continents Collide

Continents Collide

Learn how natural forces created and continue to shape mountains across the globe at the Frank H. McClung Museum at…

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Return Mail

Return Mail

A letter written by university president Joseph Estabrook in 1835 comes home to Knoxville.

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They Paved the Way

They Paved the Way

UT's first African American undergraduates enrolled in 1961.

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Ayres, not Ayers: Tale of a Troubling Transposition

Ayres, not Ayers: Tale of a Troubling Transposition

With the debut of the renovated Ayres Hall came a new plaque that correctly spells its name.

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Mapping Tennessee History

Mapping Tennessee History

Rare maps provide a window to Tennessee's past.

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Bookshelf

Bookshelf

Steve Ash's history of a black Civil War regiment and A. Scott Pearson's medical science-fiction thriller.

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Alaska at 50: Still Foreign to Many Down South

Alaska at 50: Still Foreign to Many Down South

Knoxville native John d'Armand (Knoxville '58), who has spent much of his life in Alaska, reflects on territorial days.

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Ancient Bronzes, A Farm of the Future, and a Couple Updates

Ancient Bronzes, A Farm of the Future, and a Couple Updates

Objects from long ago and far away promise a tantalizing museum experience this summer at UT Knoxville.

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Ayers, Mears, and Geier

Ayers, Mears, and Geier

Richmond taps Ayers as president, Mears dies in Knoxville, Rita Geier joins university

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