To celebrate Black History Month in Special Collections and University Archives, learn more about the local Civil Rights Movement …
Follow a General’s Movements during the American Civil War
A new interactive map of the John T. Wilder Civil War Correspondence and Papers digital collection allows researchers to follow …
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Tennessee Thanksgiving Proclamation
On this day in history 147 years ago, William G. Brownlaw, Governor of Tennessee proclaimed Thursday, the 29th day of November "be …
Happy Birthday Emma Bell Miles
Born 134 years ago on October 19, 1879, Emma Bell Miles was one of Southern Appalachia’s earliest naturalists. Also an artist, …
No Yellow Fever Here
135 years ago this month, Chattanooga businessmen assembled in City Hall to refute the "False and Malicious Reports" of yellow …