Local & Family History

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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...
Resolve to attend genealogy courses in the new year! – The Genealogy Course Schedule for 2018 has been released.
Construction Gay Street Viaduct, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1919 – Photo album of the Gay Street Viaduct construction on the McClung Digital...
Mining report from 1854 on the McClung Digital Collection – Report of a Geological Survey and Examination of Lands owned by the...
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The East Tennessee History Center

New at McClung

  • An African American and Latinx history of the United States
  • The soul of America : the battle for our better angels
  • The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation
  • The secret token : myth, obsession, and the search for the lost colony of Roanoke
  • Civil war and agrarian unrest : the Confederate South and southern Italy
  • The Chesapeake house : architectural investigation by Colonial Williamsburg
  • Cannon Mills and Kannapolis : persistent paternalism in a textile town
  • Ned Christie : the creation of an outlaw and Cherokee hero
  • Paintbrush for hire : the travels of James and Emma Cameron, 1840-1900