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 yet, but enough people feel safe that we are emerging from our cocoons, […]
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 yet, but enough people feel safe that we are emerging from our cocoons, […]
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. In 1891, a national conference of African American civil-rights activists, recently organized in Chicago, chose to […]
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, there, off Irwin Street, is a large, colorful mural on the back of […]
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 a sentimental lap through Fort Sanders, my old neighborhood, what I […]
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 HISTORY. You may have heard about the proposed removal—presented, a little […]
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 to the architect, who had apparently miscalculated. The mortar had hardly […]
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. Even the tanners and blacksmiths and distillers who didn’t […]
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 near-certainty that someone in the media is going to assume that […]
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 curtailed it in general. Usually the census is like the Coast Guard, not famous or […]