KNOXVILLE—Newly published letters of President James K. Polk shed light on slavery, race riots, and a global cholera pandemic that […]

The Papers of Andrew Jackson and the History Department are happy to present the Spring 2021 PAJ Webinar, “Anti-Jacksonian Democratization: […]

We start the new semester off with a new episode of The Jangle. Professor Brandon Winford spoke to us about […]

Each year, Dean Theresa Lee and members of her cabinet, with help from department heads, recognize faculty in the College […]

Charles Sanft, professor and associate head of the history department, received the 2020 James Henry Breasted Prize for his second […]

Henry Bergh (in top hat) stopping an overcrowded horsecar, from Harper’s Weekly, Sept. 21, 1872. Library of Congress Ernest Freeberg, […]

The Department of History is happy to announce the Fall 2020 recipients of the Leroy Graf Early Major Award. Each […]

Congratulations to Charles Sanft, winner of the prestigious James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association. This prize is […]

For many years UT historians have reached beyond our campus, working with East Tennessee public school teachers to improve history […]

On Episode 2 of The Jangle, we sit down with Professor Monica Black for a conversation on her accidental path […]