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Department of History homepage collage showing art and photos from across the centuries, going from Martin Luther King, Jr. all the way back to Pre-Modern history.

News

  • A group of people surrounding a glass table with artifacts inside
    History Class Sharing Tennessee River HeritageMay 30, 2025
  • headshot photo of Ernie Freeberg
    Freeberg’s Contributions Continue in RetirementMay 30, 2025
  • headshot photo of Charles Sanft
    History Professor Receives Humboldt Research AwardApril 25, 2025
  • assorted Douglass Day cards with photos of civil rights leaders
    Expanded Douglass Day Involves Community in HistoryFebruary 26, 2025
  • The Declaration of Independence
    Military Historians Delve into the DeclarationFebruary 17, 2025
  • Warning of ‘oligarchy,’ Biden channels Andrew JacksonFebruary 4, 2025
  • The Declaration of Independence
    The Military History of the Declaration of Independence Symposium February 4, 2025
  • Faculty pose for a photo at an event by a UT History stand-up banner
    African American History Lecture Marks First DecadeJanuary 27, 2025
  • Headshot photo
    In Memoriam: Paul PinckneyDecember 11, 2024
  • John Clugg holding an award while wearing a jacket and tie in front of a KCS plaque
    Award-Winning Teacher Puts History FirstDecember 2, 2024
  • Awards ceremony group photo
    2024 Alumni and Philanthropy Awards Honor the Volunteer SpiritNovember 11, 2024
  • Book party participants discussion
    UT Faculty Authors Share Insight at Second Annual Book PartyNovember 7, 2024
  • Victor Petrov headshot photo
    Book Award Connects UT Professor to Influential Roster of HistoriansNovember 4, 2024
  • Red Dead’s History Launches with Film Premiere, National CoverageAugust 9, 2024
  • A video game player holding a controller
    Tore Olsson in ‘The Conversation’: Why I turned the ‘Red Dead Redemption II’ video game into a history class on America’s violent pastJuly 22, 2024
  • Headshot photo of Bruce Wheeler
    Remembering Professor Bruce Wheeler (1939-2023)April 2, 2024
  • Ernest Freeberg receives an award from Robert Hinde at the 2023 Faculty Awards Convocation
    Freeberg Named 2023 William and Vicki Brakebill College MarshalMarch 27, 2024
  • Group photo of awardees at the 2023 Faculty Awards Convocation
    Bauer, Sanft Honored for Research ExcellenceMarch 27, 2024
  • Cover of the Papers of Andrew Jackson Volume 12, with a photo of a bust of Andrew Jackson
    UT History Department Documents Key Year in Andrew Jackson’s PresidencyMarch 14, 2024
  • Photo of Brooke Bauer
    Bauer’s ‘Becoming Catawba’ Earns Best Ethnohistory AwardJanuary 4, 2024
  • Empty bowls at a refugee camp in Kenya. Author provided
    Nicole Eggers Published in ‘The Conversation’December 14, 2023
  • Voters in a county election, 1854. Etching by John Sartain after painting by George Caleb Bingham; National Gallery of Art
    Thomas Coens Published in ‘The Conversation’December 7, 2023
  • Tore Olsson
    Prestigious American Historical Review Showcases UT Class Where Video Games Meet HistoryDecember 7, 2023
  • Bruce Wheeler
    Remembering Professor Bruce WheelerNovember 14, 2023
  • Tennessee State Capitol
    White Tennessee lawmakers speak out for insurrection in honoring Confederate historyMay 11, 2023
  • A photo of the 2023 Bridge Program Participants
    Summer 2024 Bridge Program ScheduleMay 5, 2023
  • A photo of Mary Beckley
    Staffer Mary Beckley, a Kidney Transplant Recipient, Finds Harmony in HistoryApril 21, 2023
  • Duygu Yıldırım
    Yıldırım awarded 2023 ACLS FellowshipApril 19, 2023
  • A Georgetown University medical student washing an organ from a donated cadavers her anatomy class in 2011
    From grave robbing to giving your own body to science – a short history of where medical schools get cadaversMarch 10, 2023
  • A picture of Nicole Eggers
    Eggers Receives NEH Collaborative Research GrantFebruary 9, 2023
  • A 3-dimensional view of the book Bearing The Torch, by T.R.C. Hutton
    Bearing the Torch PublishedNovember 17, 2022
  • A photo of the cover of the Cas Walker book edited by Josh Hodge, alongside a photograph of Josh Hodge.
    Cas Walker Stories ProjectNovember 13, 2022
  • A picture of Dan Feller
    A Legacy of Jacksonian ScholarshipSeptember 9, 2020
  • History Department in 2019
    Faculty Awards and RecognitionsJune 9, 2020
  • Graduate students volunteering at National History Day.
    Graduate Student NewsJune 9, 2020
  • A picture of Alyssa Culp
    In the ArchivesJune 9, 2020
  • A group of History faculty at the Fleming Morrow Lecture
    Celebrating Five Years of the Fleming-Morrow LectureJune 9, 2020
  • A picture of J.P. Dessel holding a bunch of radishes.
    Waiting out the PandemicJune 9, 2020
  • A picture of Lynn Sacco
    An Inspired Career Impacting StudentsJune 9, 2020
  • The People’s Republic of China participated in the 1982 World’s Fair held in Knoxville.
    China at the Knoxville World’s FairNovember 4, 2019
  • A photo of the cover of the book Cas Walker: Stories on his Life and Legend, Edited by Joshua S. Hodge
    Sharing the Stories of Cas WalkerNovember 4, 2019
  • Faculty and students at the first Department of History tailgate
    Historic TailgateSeptember 9, 2019
  • Headshot of Robert Bland in the Student Union on August 05, 2019. Photo by Steven Bridges/University of Tennessee
    Welcoming New FacultySeptember 9, 2019
  • A picture of Ernie Freeberg
    Educating Citizens of Our StateMarch 9, 2019

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