Local & Family History

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Plan to attend genealogy classes – We have scheduled our genealogy classes for 2019.
Manly Barber Journal on the McClung Digital Collection – The journal of Manly Barber includes descriptions of a 1906 trip from...
New on the McClung Digital Collection - Iron and Coal of Tennessee – This important book provides a survey of iron and coal ore in Tennessee.
Do you have an ancestor who worked for Southern Railway? – Souvenir, Knoxville Division, Southern Railway, 1903, is new on the...
Construction Gay Street Viaduct, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1919 – Photo album of the Gay Street Viaduct construction on the McClung Digital...
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New at McClung

  • How to find your family history in U.S. church records : a genealogist's guide
  • The meanest and "damnest" job : the Civl War experiences and civilian history of Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker
  • Day hiking the Daniel Boone National Forest : includes Natural Bridge and Cumberland Falls State Parks
  • Overton Park : a people's history
  • Abandoned Nashville : dark corners of music city
  • What I stand on : the collected essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017
  • Revd John Gloucester, 1776-1822 : Founder/pastor of the first African American Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (1807) / W. Eugene Thomas
  • Native American log cabins in the Southeast
  • Dixieball : race and professional basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979
  • Restoration and philosophy : new philosophical engagements with the Stone-Campbell tradition
  • Hoffa in Tennessee : the Chattanooga trial that brought down an icon
  • What Reconstruction meant : historical memory in the American South
  • Real barbecue : the classic barbecue guide to the best joints across the USA, with recipes, porklore, and more!
  • Ridge running : a memoir of Appalachia