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

  • Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
  • Hardened to hickory : the missing chapter in Andrew Jackson's life
  • The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation
  • An African American and Latinx history of the United States
  • The soul of America : the battle for our better angels
  • The secret token : myth, obsession, and the search for the lost colony of Roanoke