Dear History Department community, As with all of you, we have been watching with concern the developments around the novel […]

“The World is Ours, Too”: Black Women, Global Activism, and the New Black Travel Movement Speaker: Dr. Tiffany M. Gill, […]

Please join the History Department on Thursday, January 16th at 5:30pm in Haslam Business Building Room 203 for an MLK […]

On the evening of Thursday, October 24th, we celebrate the publication of a new book that gathers the tales and […]

Join University of Tennessee Department of History Head Ernie Freeberg for a reading from Cas Walker Stories on October 11th, at […]

Department of History faculty member Dr. Bob Hutton has a piece in the September issue of Torchbearer Magazine on the […]

Next week you have two opportunities to catch History Department Faculty member Dr. Bob Hutton on television– on PBS and […]

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization at the Edge of an Empire Monday, April 1, 20194 PM Howard H. Baker […]

The James K. Polk Project, sponsored in part by the Department of History, is approaching completion. The Project has been […]

Cooking was important for pre-modern people because it made nutrients available in food items like bones, where they otherwise would have […]