Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
Unprecedented?
July 6, 2021
We will remember this. Sixteen months after we began canceling events, we’re coming back out. The virus is still afoot, and nightclubs and festivals aren’t fully booked...
Welcome Afro-American League
June 7, 2021
This summer marks the 130th anniversary of a civil-rights convention that was decades ahead of its time—and helped introduce some charismatic Black leaders of the future....
The Birds and The Bees and The Cigarette Trees
May 6, 2021
The obscure and contradictory story of Haywire Mac   In that interesting masonry peninsula where southern Old North narrows to a point as Broadway encroaches on Central,...
The House Where it Happened
April 15, 2021
The fate of artist Catherine Wiley’s childhood home raises a question: How do you know when you’re buying a cultural landmark? Once every year or two, I need to take...
VIVA ALMIRANTE FARRAGUT
February 1, 2021
WHAT KNOX COUNTY HAS IN COMMON WITH MENORCA, AND WHY REMOVING A LEGACY OF A NATIVE-TENNESSEE UNION COMMANDER WOULD ALSO REMOVE A RARE LEGACY OF LATINO PARTICIPATION IN AMERICAN...
The Matron of Depot Street
January 16, 2021
From the day it was finished in 1903 The Southern Railway Station on Depot Street was remarkable in several ways. It was overcrowded, for one thing, an unwelcome surprise...
Tennessee Begins
January 5, 2021
For over a century, Tennessee has celebrated June 1 as Statehood Day. But why did our original state seal proclaim Feb. 6, 1796? It was something that happened on Gay Street....
The Creature of the Cumberlands
October 18, 2020
Every October, a historian is likely to encounter a little personal heartbreak. It’s not just the leaves falling from the trees, or the end of flip-flop weather. It’s...
The Big 1-8-0: After More than Half a Century of Claiming it, Are We Finally There?
October 4, 2020
Surely you’ve heard there’s a lot of anxiety about the census, about Congressional redistricting, whether undocumented immigrants are likely to be counted, whether the coronavirus...


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