Boundless: Artists in the Archives has its first recorded songs!
The singer/songwriter duo Count This Penny were the first artists to partner with the UT Libraries to create works of […]
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Echoes of War: UT Libraries Exhibit Opening and Lecture on February 1
The University of Tennessee Libraries holds thousands of unique documents and artifacts relating to America’s participation in World Wars I […]
Count This Penny Partners with UT Libraries, Will Perform Nov. 16
Boundless: Artists in the Archives is a newly launched program from the University of Tennessee Libraries. To highlight the unique […]
“Crime Documents from the Estes Kefauver Collection” now online
US Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee gained national attention in the early 1950s when he chaired congressional investigations into organized […]
Museum’s “Gilded Age” Exhibit Includes Items from Special Collections
A new exhibition opening May 26 at UT’s McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture depicts consumer culture in the […]
Join us to Celebrate Special Collections, Honor Betsey Creekmore on April 27
The Special Collections Reading Room at the John C. Hodges Library has a sleek new look. And the Elaine Altman […]
Wilma Dykeman to be Honored with Lecture and Forum, April 7-8
Robert Morgan, the acclaimed author of Gap Creek and The Road from Gap Creek, will speak about the impact of […]
From Medieval Alchemy to Tennessee Moonshine
Special Collections continually seeks new areas on which to focus acquisitions. We look for topics with regional significance that have […]
New Digital Collection: Smokies Photos, Film Clips Set to Music
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries has created an online digital collection of photos and home movies of the Smokies […]
The latest from the Smokies Project: The Photographs and Films of William Derris
From the 1940s through the 1960s, William Derris, owner of the Derris Motel in Townsend, traveled by automobile around the […]