"Howdy!" — UT Press Title Wins 2025 Tennessee History Book Award
Howdy! The Minnie Pearl Story, a 2025 release from the University of Tennessee Press, is the Tennessee History Book Award winner of the year. Another UT Press title, Tennessee Samplers: Female Education and Domestic Arts 1800-1900, was also a finalist for the award.
From the Tennessee Historical Society:
NASHVILLE—The Tennessee Historical Society and the Tennessee Historical Commission are pleased to announce the Tennessee History Book Award for 2025 will be presented to co-authors Mary Ellen Pethel and Don Cusic for their book Howdy! The Minnie Pearl Story, published by the University of Tennessee Press.
Judged by a panel of historians from across Tennessee, two other books were finalists for the prize: Tennessee Samplers: Female Education and Domestic Arts 1800-1900 by Jennifer C. Core and Janet S. Hasson (UT Press) and Andrew Jackson: Old Hickory in Christian America by Jonathan M. Atkins (Oxford University Press).