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

  • The women's suffrage movement
  • Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
  • For duty and honor : Tennessee's Mexican War experience
  • American founders : how people of African descent established freedom in the new world
  • Hardened to hickory : the missing chapter in Andrew Jackson's life
  • Where we find ourselves : the photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922
  • Bill : an American doctor in China
  • Straight outta Lonsdale II : voices from Lonsdale an anthology
  • An African American and Latinx history of the United States
  • Roots quest : inside America's genealogy boom
  • Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1947 : from the ruins of war to the rise of tourism
  • Deep in the earth : a novel
  • Crossing the aisle : how bipartisanship brought Tennessee to the twenty-first century and could save America