Press Releases

Organized by date in descending order

 20222021 |2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 20132012

2022

Date Press Release Supporting Materials
     
August 31, 2022 "Nellie Kenyon: Trailblazing Tennessee Journalist" Brown Bag Lecture  
August 17, 2022 "Resting Peacefully in the Smokies" Brown Bag Lecture

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 19th 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  

 

presented by speaker Tyler L. Boyd

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 31, 2022

CONTACT

Lisa Oakley

East Tennessee Historical Society

oakley@eastTNhistory.org

 

IN-PERSON REGISTRATION & LOCATION

East Tennessee History Center

601 South Gay St.

Knoxville, TN 37902

Register...

with speakers Joe Emert, Marilyn Childress, and Sheila Evans

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 17, 2022

CONTACT

Lisa Oakley

East Tennessee Historical Society

oakley@eastTNhistory.org

 

IN-PERSON LOCATION & REGISTRATION

East Tennessee History Center

601 South Gay St.

Knoxville, TN 37902

...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.) 
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Virtual Reservations
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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.

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