Two years after Sam Venable became the outdoor editor for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, he began receiving photographs of fish marked with only a phone number and the mysterious words “top-water Hubbar
Over the past few decades, the vexing problems of climate change and finite resources have ignited contentious global debates about alternative energy technologies. In this lucid, balanced book, Rody
In 1863, while living in Clarksville, Tennessee, Martha Ann Haskins, known to friends and family as Nannie, began a diary. The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion a
“Hess’s account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Bot
Retired newspaper editor and author Burkhardt introduces each chapter of Irish immigrant sailor Bartholomew Diggins’ detailed account of his time serving under Admiral Farragut’s (“damn the torpedoes”
Appalachians All intertwines the histories of three communities—Knoxville with its urban life, Cades Cove with its farming, logging, and tourism legacies, and the Clearfork Valley with its coal pro
The legendary Jackie Robinson broke major league baseball’s color barrier in 1947 when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers. That same year he was chosen MLB’s Rookie of the Year
