Local & Family History

McClung Special Collections Catalog

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The East Tennessee History Center (in the old Custom House) houses three separate entities: the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, the Knox County Archives, and the East Tennessee Historical Society and Museum.

The Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection is the local history and genealogy department of the Knox County Public Library System. The McClung Collection is a reference and research collection, so the books or library materials do not circulate, and are not available for interlibrary loan. The McClung Collection is also the home of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound.

The Knox County Archives serves as a central repository for the permanent records of Knox County government and its agencies.

New at McClung

  • The panic of 1819 : the first great depression
  • Blue Ridge music trails of North Carolina : a guide to music sites, artists, and traditions of the mountains and foothills
  • The false cause : fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy in Confederate memory
  • General Hylan B. Lyon : a Kentucky Confederate and the war in the West
  • Hard-fighting soldiers : a history of African American Churches of Christ
  • Apostle of the Lost Cause : J. William Jones, Baptists, and the development of Confederate memory
  • The Family Tree guide to DNA testing and genetic genealogy
  • Knoxville music before bluegrass
  • Suffrage : women's long battle for the vote
  • Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains
  • Why can't mother vote? Joseph Hanover and the unfinished business of democracy