Press Releases

Organized by date in descending order

2021 |2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

2021

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
March 2, 2021	Night at the Museum
August 6, 2021	The Trail to Sequoyah's Syllabary
July 27, 2021	Tennessee Statesman Harry T. Burn
July 7, 2021	Landscapes for the People
June 23, 2021	The Story of Challenge and Change in the United Methodist Church
June 11, 2021	Suffrage Showdown: The Awakening of East Tennessee's Public-Spirited Women
June 2, 2021	The African American Experience Project in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
May 19, 2021	Stories Matter: My Journey of Learning to Love History
April 21, 2021	The Customs of Knoxville's Custom House

2020

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
August 18, 2020	Marching to Victory: East Tennessee’s Role in Votes for Women
July 29, 2020	Museum of East Tennessee History to Reopen August 1
April 1, 2020	COVID-19 Update 3
March 20, 2020	COVID-19 Update 2
March 18, 2020	COVID-19 Update
March 9, 2020	The Washington County Heritage Fair
March 3, 2020	Knoxville's 1919 Race Riot: An Eyewitness Account: A Brown Bag Lecture with Marilyn Mascaro
February 26, 2020	Tennessee Statesman Harry T. Burn: Woman Suffrage, Free Elections & a Life of Service: Lecture and Book-Signing with Tyler Boyd
February 20, 2020	Black & White: Knoxville in the Jim Crow Era
February 17, 2020	Presidential Historian Jon Meacham to Speak at the Bijou Theatre
February 6, 2020	Call for Awards of Excellence in History Nominations
January 10, 2020	With Affection and Admiration: The Letters of George C. Marshall and Winston S. Churchill - A Brown Bag Lecture with Rachel Yarnell Thompson

2019

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
November 25, 2019	2019 ETHS Holiday Open House
October 28, 2019	Free Admission for Veterans and Their Families on Veterans Day
October 23, 2019	A Fortress and a Legacy: The Gift of a WWII Bombardier's True Story to the Daughter He Never Knew - A Brown Bag Lecture with J. Ross Greene
October 15, 2019	Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy - A Sunday Lecture with Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
October 8, 2019	Finding Shifrah: The Journey of a Dutch Holacaust Child Survivor - A Brown Bag Lecture with Sonja DuBois
October 2, 2019	Historic Disasters in East Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture with Dewaine A. Speaks
October 1, 2019	Monsters at the Museum
September 24, 2019	Cas Walker: Stories on His Life and Legend
September 20, 2019	Tennessee Virtual Archive Workshop
September 17, 2019	Lecture and Book Signing with Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Rick Atkinson
September 13, 2019	Smithsonian Magazine's National Museum Day
September 9, 2019	Freedom Engine Items on Display
September 4, 2019	Historic Knoxville - A Brown Bag Lecture with Jack Neely
August 6, 2019	2019 East Tennessee Antique Fair
August 2, 2019	12th Annual East Tennessee History Fair
August 2, 2019	Manhattan Project National Historical Park - A Brown Bag Lecture
July 26, 2019	History Hound Dog Costume Contest
June 26, 2019	James Agee in Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture
June 24, 2019	"It'll Tickle Yore Innards!": A (Hillbilly) History of Mountain Dew -- New Feature Exhibition at the Museum of East Tennessee History
June 6, 2019	Hidden in Plain Site: Cemeteries in the Smoky Mountains - A Brown Bag Lecture
June 4, 2019	ETHS to Participate in Blue Star Museum Program
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Knox County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Sevier County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Blount County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Cocke County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Anderson County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Loudon County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - McMinn County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Washington County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Greene County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Monroe County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Morgan County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Grainger County
May 24, 2019	2019 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Jefferson County
May 22, 2019	Celebrating East Tennessee Weather History
April 30, 2019	Junior Historian Summer Camp: Hidden History
April 22, 2019	2019 ETHS Annual Meeting
April 2, 2019	"A Home for Our Past" Exhibition Updated and Extended
March 28, 2019	ETHS Receives Multiple Awards at Tennessee Association of Museums Conference
March 20, 2019	Isaac Anderson and the Presbyterian Founders of Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture
March 15, 2019	For Duty and Honor: Tennessee's Mexican War Experience - Sunday Lecture with Dr. Tim Johnson
March 8, 2019	Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Ron Chernow to Speak at the Tennessee Theatre
February 27, 2019	The Secret History of RDX - A Brown Bag Lecture
February 19, 2019	Crossing the Aisle - Lecture and Discussion with Keel Hunt
February 18, 2019	18th Annual East Tennessee History Day Media Advisory
February 8, 2019	Sam Houston's Quest - A Brown Bag Lecture

2018

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
November 28, 2018	When the West Was Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture
November 26, 2018	ETHS Holiday Open House
October 30, 2018	Free Museum Admission for Veterans & Their Families on Veterans Day
October 19, 2018	Letters from a Soviet Prison: The Personal Journal and Correspondence of CIA U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers - A Brown Bag Lecture
October 16, 2018	Memories of a Classic TV and Veteran Movie Actor: A Conversation with Buck Taylor
October 9, 2018	Monsters at the Museum
October 8, 2018	A Father's Son: The Development of an Entrepreneur - Lecture and Book Signing with Tom Boyd
October 3, 2018	Knoxville's National Cemetery - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 25, 2018	The Ghost Army of WWII - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 11, 2018	Museum of East Tennessee History Offers Free Admission for Smithsonian's Museum Day Live!
September 7, 2018	"A Home Four Our Past" Exhibition Celebrates 25 Years of the Musum of East Tennessee History
September 4, 2018	Freedom Engine Items on Display
August 9, 2018	Edward Terry Sanford: A Tennessean on the US Supreme Court - Reception, Lecture, & Book Signing
August 9, 2018	Bless Her Heart: The Life and Times of Ellen McClung Berry - Lecture and Book Signing
August 8, 2018	To Transmit to Perfect Safety: The Cherokee Code Talkers in World War I - A Brown Bag Lecture
August 3, 2018	History Hound Dog Costume Contest
August 2, 2018	11th Annual East Tennessee History Fair
July 11, 2018	In the Footsteps of Sergeant York Exhibition Extension
July 5, 2018	The Lost Restaurants of Knoxville - A Brown Bag Lecture
June 8, 2018	In the Footsteps of Sergeant York - A Brown Bag Lecture
May 31, 2018	Family, Faith, and Freedom in the Foothills: The Scots-Irish Presence in Early Appalachia - A Brown Bag Lecture
May 30, 2018	James Allen Bryant, Jr. Honored with McClung Award
May 25, 2018	ETHS to Participate in Blue Star Museums for Eighth Year
May 25, 2018	Super Saturday at the Museum: World War I Family Day
May 10, 2018	East Tennessee Historical Society to offer Junior Historian Summer Camp
May 10, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Washington County
May 10, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Knox County
May 9, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Sevier County
May 9, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Cocke County
May 9, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Greene County
May 9, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence- Hamblen County
May 9, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Blount County
May 9, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Jefferson County
May 9, 2018	2018 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Claiborne County
May 4, 2018	The Great War in Tennessee's Newspapers - A Brown Bag Lecture
April 9, 2018	Inaugural American Revolution on the Tennessee Frontier Symposium
April 6, 2018	2018 ETHS Annual Meeting of the Membership with special address by Dr. Michael Birdwell on Alvin York
April 2, 2018	ETHS receives multiple awards from the Tennessee Association of Museums
March 15, 2018	ETHS, AASLH, and Humanities Tennessee offer three-part program to become a Master Local Historian
March 13, 2018	Knox County 2018 East Tennessee History Day Winners
March 12, 2018	Anderson County 2018 East Tennessee History Day Winners
March 12, 2018	Loudon County 2018 East Tennessee History Day Winners
March 12, 2018	Morgan County 2018 East Tennessee History Day Winners
March 12, 2018	Monroe County 2018 East Tennessee History Day Winners
March 12, 2018	Scott County 2018 East Tennessee History Day Winner
March 1, 2018	Ken Burns Lecture at the Tennessee Theatre
February 28, 2018	Knoxville's Part in World War I, 1917-1918, the Home Front, and the Great War's Local Legacy -- A Brown Bag Lecture
February 19, 2018	2018 East Tennessee History Day District Competition
February 6, 2018	The Road to Suffrage: Knoxville -- A program of the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial Collaborative
February 6, 2018	ETHS Accepting Nominations for 2018 Awards of Excellence
February 6, 2018	Film Showing of "Sergeant York" with Commentary by Dr. Michael Birdwell
January 29, 2018	The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America - Lecture with Michael Neiberg, PhD
January 19, 2018	In the Footsteps of Sergeant York Exhibit

2017

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
November 21, 2017	2017 Holiday Open House
November 7, 2017	Free Museum Admission for Veterans on Veterans Day
November 6, 2017	The CCC Boys of Tennessee: A Musical Tribute to the Civilian Conservation Corp - With Bill Jamerson
October 25, 2017	20 Years of East Tennessee's Own WDVX - Book Launch and Panel Discussion
October 25, 2017	Deadly Epidemics in Knoxville History, from the Plague of 1838 to the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 - A Brown Bag Lecture
October 16, 2017	Following the Tennessee Valley Authority's Global Career during the Cold War - A Lecture with Tore Olsson
October 12, 2017	Monsters at the Museum
September 29, 2017	Southern Quilts: Originality and Making Do - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 25, 2017	The Unquiet Grave - Lecture and Book Signing with Appalachian Author Sharyn McCrumb
September 7, 2017	Freedom Engine Artifacts on Display
September 5, 2017	Free Museum Admission for Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day Live!
August 30, 2017	Using Genealogy Research to Solve the Mysteries of Quilts - A Brown Bag Lecture
August 7, 2017	Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears Lecture & Exhibit from Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
August 4, 2017	Experiences of Black People in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1844-1974 - A Brown Bag Lecture
August 3, 2017	10th Annual East Tennessee History Fair
August 1, 2017	East Tennessee History Day Award-Winning Documentaries- A Brown Bag Lecture
July 31, 2017	Stories In Stitches: Quilts from the East Tennessee Historical Society's Permanent Collection
July 27, 2017	History Hound Dog Costume Contest
June 30, 2017	Prints of a Man - A Brown Bag Lecture
June 5, 2017	The Civil Rights Movement in Knoxville, Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture
May 15, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Monroe County
May 15, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Sullivan County
May 15, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Sevier County
May 15, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Knox County
May 15, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Washington County
May 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Greene County
May 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Blount County
May 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Bradley County
May 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Fentress County
May 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Jefferson County
May 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Hamblen County
May 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Awards of Excellence - McMinn County
May 5, 2017	The Life and Times of David Crockett in East Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture
April 21, 2017	Come to Make Records Exhibition Wins Highest Honor from the Tennessee Association of Museums
April 12, 2017	"Stone Stories" Lecture with Marble Sculptor Julie Warren Conn
April 12, 2017	2017 ETHS Annual Meeting with Address by Secretary of State Tre Hargett
April 5, 2017	A Knoxville Heritage: Tennessee Marble - A Brown Bag Lecture
April 4, 2017	Tennessee Marble Documentation Day and Panel Discussion
March 30, 2017	Andy Holt: President, University of Tennessee, 1959-1970 - A Brown Bag Lecture
March 16, 2017	Autosomal DNA for Genealogy Workshop with Dr. George K. Schweitzer
March 14, 2017	Three Morgan County Students Win Awards at 16th Annual East Tennessee History Day
March 14, 2017	Twenty-Five Blount County Students Win Awards at 16th Annual East Tennessee History Day
March 13, 2017	Forty-Five Knox County Students Win Awards at 16th Annual East Tennessee History Day
March 9, 2017	Lecture and Book Signing with Bob Clement
March 6, 2017	William Francis Yardley: Knoxville Trailblazer - A Brown Bag Lecture
February 22, 2017	Clinton High School and the Immortal Twelve- A Brown Bag Lecture

2016

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
December 1, 2016	Holiday Open House
November 29, 2016	From the Archives: Finding East Tennessee's Marble Story - A Brown Bag Lecture
November 15, 2016	A Man and His Bike: Earl Terrell Exhibit
November 14, 2016	Rock of Ages: East Tennessee's Marble Industry
November 10, 2016	Free Museum Admission for Veterans & Their Families
October 26, 2016	Knoxville's 'Merry-Go-Round,' Ciderville and the East Tennessee Country Music Scene \| Lecture & Book Signing
October 25, 2016	Valor: World War I Aviator Kiffin Rockwell - A Brown Bag Lecture
October 5, 2016	Fountain City: People Who Made A Difference - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 27, 2016	People of the Upper Cumberland: Achievements and Contradictions - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 19, 2016	Free Museum Admission for Museum Day Live!
September 1, 2016	The Freedom Engine: East Tennessee Remembers 9/11
August 31, 2016	Early History of WNOX Radio - A Brown Bag Lecture
July 29, 2016	2016 "History Hound" Dog Costume Contest
July 28, 2016	"Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, & Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763" Sunday Lecture
July 22, 2016	August 8th Programming and Exhibit
July 13, 2016	The Viking Age and Norse Genealogy - A Brown Bag Lecture
July 8, 2016	ETHS Awards National History Day Scholarships
June 30, 2016	Andrew Jackson Never Slept Here: The Lamar House from 1817 to Today - A Brown Bag Lecture
June 24, 2016	First Families of Tennessee Reunion & Jubilee
May 31, 2016	East Tennessee in World War II - A Brown Bag Lecture
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Anderson County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Blount County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Greene County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Hamblen County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Hawkins County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Jefferson County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Knox County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - McMinn County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Monroe County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Polk County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Rossville, GA
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Sullivan County
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards of Excellence - Virginia Commonwealth
May 18, 2016	2016 ETHS Awards- Washington County
April 26, 2016	Prayers the Devil Answers - Lecture & Book Signing with Sharyn McCrumb
April 25, 2016	"Tennessee Trilogy: The Tennessee Recording Sessions, 1927-1930" Brown Bag Panel Discussion
April 25, 2016	2016 ETHS Annual Meeting
April 5, 2016	Knoxville's WNOX-Radio: The Cradle of Country Music - A Brown Bag Lecture
March 14, 2016	Medal of Honor Quilt on Display at Museum
February 24, 2016	The Legacy and Challenge of Suffrage - A Brown Bag Lecture
February 10, 2016	The Art of Beauford Delaney - A Brown Bag Lecture
February 5, 2016	Bud Albers Art Recollections Exhibition
February 2, 2016	2016 Award of Excellence Nominations Sought
January 7, 2016	Lloyd Branson Documentation Day & Caring for Your Paintings and Artifacts - A Brown Bag Lecture
January 27, 2016	Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South - A Brown Bag Lecture

2015

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
December 30, 2015	An Inside Look at Lloyd Branson - A Brown Bag Lecture
December 22, 2015	Kidnapping the Kaiser: Tennesseans in the Great War
November 30, 2015	2015 Holiday Open House
November 13, 2015	Events Honoring Frances Hodgson Burnett
November 3, 2015	Free Admission to the Museum of East TN History for Veterans and Their Families on November 11
October 29, 2015	"Celebrating a Life in Tennessee Art: Lloyd Branson, 1853-1925" Exhibition Opening
October 27, 2015	The Tangled Web of the Civil War: A Novelist's Perspective - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 29, 2015	The Greatest Campaigner of Them All: Estes Kefauver's Personal Approach to Politics - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 28, 2015	Tracing Your Ancestor in the Highlands of Scotland Workshop with Graeme Mackenzie
September 9, 2015	Loss or the Steamer Sultana - A Brown Bag Lecture
September 8, 2015	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Lecture by Tina Santi Flaherty
September 1, 2015	We Will Remember: The Freedom Engine Brown Bag Lecture
August 5, 2015	The Civil War Along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau- A Brown Bag Lecture
August 4, 2015	8th Annual East Tennessee History Fair
July 31, 2015	Genetic DNA: Who Gave You Your DNA? - A Brown Bag Lecture
July 27, 2015	"History Hound" Dog Costume Contest	Poster
July 23, 2015	2015 History Fair
July 8, 2015	Knoxville History Project - A Brown Bag Lecture
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Knox County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Anderson County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Blount County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Grainger County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Cocke County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Greene County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Monroe County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Union County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - McMinn County
June 18, 2015	2015 ETHS Awards - Overton County
June 2, 2015	The Life and Public Career of Estes Kefauver: An Overview - A Brown Bag Lecture
May 19, 2015	Blue Star Museum Participation
May 18, 2015	2015 Annual Meeting of the Membership
Apr 22, 2015	Memories of the Blue and Gray: The Civil War in East Tennessee at 150 - New Feature Exhibit
Apr 22, 2015	A Tale of Three Valleys - A Brown Bag Lecture
Apr 16, 2015	Blue & Gray Reunion and Freedom Jubilee
Apr 2, 2015	A Piano Love Affair - A Brown Bag Lecture
Mar 30, 2015	Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times - A Brown Bag Lecture
Mar 12, 2015	Medal of Honor Programs	MOH Logo
Mar 6, 2015	“Write and Tell Mother…”: East Tennesseans in the Great Way, 1917-1919 - A Lecture by Pat Gang
Feb 23, 2015	History Award Nominations Sought
Jan 22, 2015	Clans, Septs, and Surnames in the Highlands of Scotland - A Brown Bag Lecture
Jan 12, 2015	Made in Tennessee: Manufacturing Milestones Exhibition

2014

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
Dec 2, 2014	Holiday Open House at ETHS!
Nov 26, 2014	Unveiling and Dedication of Tennessee Civil War Trails Marker “Knoxville: A Divided City"
Oct 28, 2014	The Last Billion Years: A Geologic History of Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture
Oct 15, 2014	From Rags to Pixels: East Tennessee’s Newspapers from the 19^th Century to Digitization - A Brown Bag Lecture
Oct 10, 2014	Snakebit: Poisonous Serpents and Religious Expression in Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture
Oct 1, 2014	Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past: A Ballad Novella - A Lecture & Book Signing by Award-Winning Author Sharyn McCrumb	Book Cover
Sept 16, 2014	From Brooklyn to Blenheim and Beyond-The Influence of Winston Churchill's Mother - A Special Lecture with Randolph Churchill II & Jennie Churchill Repard
Sept 9, 2014	Weston Fulton Changed the World - A Brown Bag Lecture
Sept 4, 2014	Free Admission at Museum of East Tennessee History for National Museum Day on September 27, 2014
Sept 3, 2014	The Freedom Engine: East Tennessee Remembers 9/11 - Artifacts on display at The Museum of East Tennessee History
Aug 1, 2014	Elkmont’s Uncle Lem Ownby - A Brown Bag Lecture
July 29, 2014	Annual History Fair 2014 - From Cherokee to the Present, Celebrating our Region's History	History Fair Flyer
July 29, 2014	"History Hound" Dog Costume Contest at the Seventh Annual History Fair
July 10, 2014	Knoxville's Freedman's Mission Historic Cemetery - A Brown Bag Lecture
June 9, 2014	Finding Your German Ancestor - A Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. George K. Schweitzer
May 27, 2014	It's a Dirt Track Life: Memories of Dirt Track Racing from Dawsonville to Gatlinburg - A Documentary Film Screening
May 19, 2014	Founding Spirits: George Washington and the Beginnings of the American Whiskey Industry - A Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. Dennis J. Pogue
April 29, 2014	Forgotten Basket of the Mountain - A Brown Bag Lecture by Bill Alexander
April 15, 2014	Casual Basket Sunday Programs
March 27, 2014	Three Cheers and a 'Tiger' for the Holstons! The Rebirth of the Civil War-Era Base Ball in Tennessee - A Brown Bag Lecture by Adam Alfrey
March 18, 2014	Getting to Know the Walker Sisters - A Brown Bag Lecture by Merikay Waldvogel
March 14, 2014	Woven of Wood: East Tennessee Baskets, 1880-1940	Basket preview
February 27, 2014	"Terra Incognita": The Great Smoky Mountains in Print - A Brown Bag Lecture by Anne Bridges and Ken Wise
February 14, 2014	Screening Event with Filmmaker and Historian on New Civil War Documentary
February 11, 2014	UT Social Studies Workshop
February 10, 2014	Last Chance - Live! On Air! and In Your Living Room will close on February 23, 2014
February 4, 2014	2014 Awards of Excellence Nominations	Nomination Form
January 30, 2014	"Adventures in Media Advertising: 58 Years and Running" A Brown Bag Lecture by Hal Ernest
January 7, 2014	"Archeological Excavation Discovers Knoxville History" A Brown Bag Lecture by TVA Project Archeologists

2013

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
December 30, 2013	"Video Pioneers: A History of Early Television" A Brown Bag Lecture by Julian Burke
December 3, 2013	"Tellin' It for the Truth" A Brown Bag Lecture, Screening, and Book Signing by Bill Landry
December 3, 2013	Holiday Open House at the Museum of East Tennessee History
October 29, 2013	"Scots-Irish" A Brown Bag Lecture by Ron Jones
October 29, 2013	"Sacrifice and Valor: East Tennesseans in World War II" Brown Bag Lecture by Jerome Melson
October 24, 2013	"Collecting and Preserving Local Television for Regional Archives" Brown Bag Lecture by Bradley Reeves
October 22, 2013	"Coup: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal" A lecture by Keel Hunt
October 15, 2013	"The Longest Rescue" A Lecture, book signing and flag raising ceremony
October 7, 2013	"King's Mountain" A Lecture and Book Signing
September 17, 2013	"Remembering a Hill: Growing Up in the Fifties" Brown Bag Lecture
September 17, 2013	Free Admission to East Tennessee History Museum!
September 9, 2013	"Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America" Brown Bag Lecture
September 5, 2013	"Smoky Mountain Tales: Feuds, Muder & Mayhem" Brown Bag Lecture
August 30, 2013	"Massacre at Cavett's Station" Brown Bag Lecture
August 8, 2013	History Fair 2013
August 6, 2013	Open House for Teachers
August 2, 2013	Looking Back: The Civil War in Tennessee, TSLA project comes to Knoxville	Postcard
July 30, 2013	Lincoln - Film Showing and Discussion
July 23, 2013	"Old Tennessee Is as Good a Country as We Want" Brown Bag Lecture
July 11, 2013	Of Sword and Pen: Pivotal Moments in Civil War East Tennessee—New Feature Exhibition
June 20, 2013	"Unvexed to the Sea: The Battle of Vicksburg" Brown Bag Lecture
May 30, 2013	"Escape to Freedom" Brown Bag Lecture
May 28, 2013	2013 Blue Star Museum
May 13, 2013	"The Surprises of the Civil War" by Ed Ayers, Ph.D.
May 6, 2013	"Col. John Williams and the War of 1812" Brown Bag Lecture
April 26, 2013	"A Conversation with Rick Atkinson"
April 15, 2013	2013 ETHS Annual Meeting
April 12, 2013	"War of 1812 Genealogy" Brown Bag Lecture
March 28, 2013	"The Downfall of William Brownlow's Radical Regime" Brown Bag Lecture
February 25, 2013	ETHS Seeks Award Nominations
February 11, 2013	"Revisiting the Creek War of 1813" Symposium
February 11, 2013	Harriet Beecher Stowe Luncheon & Performance
February 5, 2013	Basket Documentation Day
January 29, 2013	"Becoming the Volunteer State" Brown Bag Lecture
January 21, 2013	Becoming the Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812 - Feature Exhibition
January 18, 2013	"A Presidential Conversation with Jon Meacham"

2012

Date	Press Release	Supporting Materials
December 3, 2012	"The Great Smoky Mountains National Park- A Postcard History" Lecture & Book Signing
November 27, 2012	"Welsh in Tennessee" Brown Bag Lecture
November 26, 2012	ETHS Holiday Open House
November 26, 2012	"Common People in Common Times" Brown Bag Lecture
November 20, 2012	"In Death Not Divided" Brown Bag Lecture
November 6, 2012	Common People in Common Times & In Death Not Divided - New Feature Exhibitions
October 30, 2012	"Immigrants to East Tennessee, 1845-1925" Brown Bag Lecture
October 8, 2012	Artist Ted Burnett Show at Village Fine Arts
October 8, 2012	"American Heroes with Common Bonds" Brown Bag Lecture
October 2, 2012	"BBQ, Blue Jeans, and Cas II" an event at Ciderville Music
September 24, 2012	National Museum Day
September 14, 2012	"Fort Sanders in History and in Memory" Brown Bag Lecture
August 27, 2012	"Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri" A Brown Bag Lecture
August 14, 2012	"Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation" Brown Bag Lecture
August 7, 2012	Fifth Annual East Tennessee History Fair
July 30, 2012	“McGhee Tyson Airport after 75 Years” Brown Bag Lecture
July 16, 2012	"Tennessee Samplers" Brown Bag Lecture
July 12, 2012	Tennessee Samplers: 19th Century Schoolgirl Embroidery Exhibition
July 2, 2012	“Tennessee Tragedies” Brown Bag Lecture
May 29, 2012	"Southern Freemasons and the Civil War" Brown Bag Lecture
April 20, 2012	"Sweet Corn and Popcorn: A Popcorn Sutton Event"
April 10, 2012	ETHS Traveling Exhibit Vanishing Appalachia at Five Points
April 3, 2012	"East TN Through the Eyes of its Artists" Brown Bag Lecture
March 28, 2012	East TN Art & Artists - New Feature Exhibition
February 23, 2012	2012 Awards of Excellence Nominations Sought
January 24, 2012	"History Under the Covers" - A Quilt Turning
January 24, 2012	ETHS Traveling Exhibit American Enka and the Modern Labor Movement on Display in Morristown
January 5, 2012	"Lincoln's Long Shadow" Brown Bag Lecture
January 3, 2012	The Conspirator Film Showing and Discussion

The Customs of Knoxville’s Custom House

A Zoom Brown Bag Program by Joe Jarret

May 5, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. EDT

Join the East Tennessee Historical Society on May 5, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. via Zoom as we welcome Dr. Joe Jarret, Attorney at Law and Lecturer with the University of Tennessee’s Department of Political Science, as he tells the story of the United States Custom House and Post Office, which serves today as the East Tennessee History Center in downtown Knoxville.

A federal custom house was traditionally a building that housed government officials who oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods into...

Stories Matter: My Journey of Learning to Love History

Join the East Tennessee Historical Society on June 2, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. via Zoom as we welcome Tate Greene, National History Day (NHD) Gold Medalist and Clayton Bradley STEM Academy Senior, to chronicle his discovery of the power and relevance of regional stories in the academic study of American history. Tate’s NHD award-winning documentaries cover topics related to East Tennessee and Appalachian history and culture.

For his “Stories that Matter” presentation, Tate will discuss how he became involved with the National History Day program and developed a seven-year relationship with the East Tennessee Historical Society which...

The African American Experience Project in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Join the East Tennessee Historical Society on June 16, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. via Zoom as Project Lead Antoine Fletcher and Research Assistant Atalya Dorfield introduce us to the African American Experience Project in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Begun in 2018, this project is a collaborative effort with park partners and the community to document and share the untold stories of African Americans in and outside the Smokies. These stories have been shared by many African Americans around crackling campfires, sun-beaten front porches, and lamp lit bedrooms, but they have yet to be shared with the world.

To tell this story...

Suffrage Showdown: The Awakening of East Tennessee’s Public-Spirited Women

A Virtual Brunch Brown Bag with Dr. Carole Bucy
Saturday, June 26, 2021 - 10:30 am EDT, 9:30 am CDT

Contact: Angie Vicars
865-215-8824
vicars@easttnhistory.org

The East Tennessee Historical Society welcomes Carole Bucy to examine the political awakening of East Tennessee women and their influence on public policies related to the needs of women and children, leading to Tennessee’s role in the successful passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. This event will be held via Zoom on...

Tennessee Statesman Harry T. Burn

A hybrid evening lecture and book signing by Tyler Boyd

Date and Time
Tuesday, August 10, 2021, at 7 pm EDT

In-Person Location and Reservations
East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902 (Seating is limited.)
Register on Eventbrite

Virtual Reservations
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The Story of Challenge and Change in the United Methodist Church: Civil War to Today

A hybrid brown bag presentation and book signing by Dwight Wade, author of Unfinished Journey

Date and Time: Wednesday, July 7, 2021, at noon EDT

Physical Location: East Tennessee History Center at 601 South Gay Street Knoxville, TN 37902 (Seating is limited.)

Virtual: on Zoom

Reservations Requested: Email eths@eastTNhistory.org and indicate whether your reservation is for in-person or Zoom attendance.

Description: Spanning 200...

Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service

A hybrid Brown Bag presentation and book signing by Ren and Helen Davis

Date and Time
Wednesday, July 21, 2021, at noon EDT

Physical Location
East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902 (Seating is limited.)

Virtual on Zoom

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The Trail to Sequoyah’s Syllabary: From the Handwritten Words to the Acorn Press

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August 6, 2021

The Trail to Sequoyah’s Syllabary: From the Handwritten Words to the Acorn Press

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