April 21, 2016
We read the front-page coverage of the 1902 explosion of Fraterville mine in Coal Creek that killed 184 men and boys.
Historic Knoxville News podcast
Based on readings from old Knoxville newspapers
April 21, 2016
Where Unionists and Confederates were neighbors, conflicts continued well past the end of the Civil War. We read three articles about one family's catastrophe.
July 10, 2015
Knoxville prepared for half a million visitors in 1910. A half million.
July 08, 2015
We read excerpts of a first-person account of what is believed to be the first continuous hike from one end of what would become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the other.
July 08, 2015
Much to-do was made over the exhumation and reburial of John Sevier on the courthouse lawn.
July 02, 2015
Have you ever wanted to shoot a banker, downtown and in broad daylight?
July 01, 2015
Let's get war veterans from opposite sides together for a huge party. What could go wrong?
May 23, 2015
When you want to fly up to the Smokies, have a good plan for landing.
May 23, 2015
Decades after the frontier was pushed far west of Knoxville, the new Wild West came east to visit us in a caper fit for Hollywood.
May 23, 2015
Tragedy compounded after a disastrous elephant walk.
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