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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The East Tennessee History Center

New at McClung

  • What I stand on : the collected essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017
  • Rev. John Gloucester, 1776-1822 : Founder/pastor of the first African American Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (1807) / W. Eugene Thomas
  • Shelter in a time of storm : how Black colleges fostered generations of leadership and activism
  • Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide
  • The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west
  • The impeachers : the trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation
  • The British are coming : the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: volume one of the Revolution Trilogy
  • Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1947 : from the ruins of war to the rise of tourism
  • Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote
  • The road to Charleston : Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
  • Exposing slavery : photography, human bondage, and the birth of modern visual politics in America
  • Roots quest : inside America's genealogy boom
  • Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign : the twenty-one critical decisions that defined the operation
  • A familiar wilderness : searching for home on Daniel Boone's road
  • The women's suffrage movement
  • Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
  • American founders : how people of African descent established freedom in the new world
  • Bill : an American doctor in China