Photograph collection exhibits Victorian-era Smokies images The Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project is pleased to announce the availability of the William Cox Cochran Great Smoky Mountains Photographic Collection. Cochran, an Ohio lawyer and trustee of Oberlin College, captured the 89 images in this collection while on a trip to East Tennessee in August 1886. The … Continued
Exhibit to Celebrate New Jacksonian-Era Collection During the past year, Tennessee businessman and collector William C. Cook donated his impressive collection of rare books and imprints to the University Libraries and the Center for Jacksonian America. To celebrate this significant donation, the Special Collections Library is presenting an exhibit of materials from the Cook Collection. … Continued
Since 1982, he last week of September has been designated as “Banned Books Week.” The annual event reminds Americans not to take our precious democratic freedom for granted. Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) helps compile a list of the most challenged books–titles where there has been an attempt to remove or restrict the … Continued
The sixth floor of Hodges Library on the University of Tennessee campus is the new home for an exhibit of historical photographs–Trailblazers: Jim Thompson and Albert “Dutch” Roth Photographs of the Early Years of the Great Smoky Mountain Park.
An exhibit on Knoxville’s only U.S. Supreme Court Justice opens Monday, October 3rd, in the upper lobby of the Special Collections Library. The exhibit — “Edward Terry Sanford, United States Supreme Court Justice and Trustee of the University of Tennessee” — will run through December.
James Agee: A Celebration of His Work to premier April 1 A new exhibit featuring Knoxville author James Agee will be displayed in the Special Collections of the Hoskins Library on the UT Campus, and opens with a special reception this Friday, April 1. The exhibit features artifacts from the Libraries.