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United States Army of the Cumberland

During the Civil War, Union forces in Tennessee were part of several different federal armies, primarily the Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the Ohio, and the Army of the Tennessee. An army from the early Department of the…

United States Christian Commission

The United States Christian Commission, a project of the Young Men's Christian Association, sent almost five thousand volunteers to the battlefields and military hospitals of the Civil War. Their purpose was to care for the spiritual and physical needs of…

United States Colored Troops

The United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) in Tennessee experienced every facet of war between 1863 and 1865. In the spring of 1863 General Lorenzo Thomas was appointed Commissioner for the Organization of Colored Troops for the Union army in Tennessee.…

United States Colored Troops

Unidentified U.S.C.T. soldier from Knoxville area.

United States Dairy Experiment Station

Established in Marshall County in 1929, the United States Dairy Experiment Station has played a significant role in the improvement of dairy livestock and the dairy industry in Tennessee. Lewisburg civic entrepreneur and cattle auctioneer Jim N. McCord, Jersey cattle…

United States Pipe and Foundry Company

A significant reminder of the importance of the iron industry to Chattanooga's growth is the United States Pipe and Foundry Company, one of Chattanooga's oldest manufacturing establishments and a familiar landmark on the city's skyline. The company's owners, David Giles…

United States Pipe And Foundry Company

The U.S. Pipe and Stove Foundry in the 1930s.

Universal Life Insurance Company

Memphis-based Universal Life Insurance Company (ULICO), the second African American company in the United States to attain million-dollar-capital status (1947), has been described as one of the "ten top Negro owned and operated business enterprises in the world" and as…

University of Memphis

Names reflect an institution's history, and the University of Memphis has undergone several name changes: West Tennessee State Normal School (1912-25), West Tennessee State Teachers College (1925-30), State Teachers College, Memphis (1930-41), Memphis State College (1941-57), Memphis State University (1957-94),…

University Of Memphis

In 1957, Memphis State College became Memphis State University. Then President Cecil C. Humphreys stands amidst a group of students as the entrance signed is changed.

University of Nashville

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee was founded as Blount College, named for Territorial Governor William Blount and chartered on September 10, 1794, by the legislature of the Southwest Territory sitting in Knoxville. Located in a single building in a frontier village…

University Of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee, circa 1900.

University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga

Completed in 1886, University Hall, affectionately known to faculty and students as "Old Main" fronted on McCallie Avenue. Old Main housed science laboratories, a chapel, 39 dormitory rooms, and apartments for the president and faculty members. It was torn down in 1917. This photo is one of the last taken of "Old Main."

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

In 1886 the Methodist Episcopal Church, North founded Chattanooga University. Strife within the church over educational policy in the South soon undermined Chattanooga University and led to its consolidation in 1889 with a rival school, Grant Memorial University in Athens,…

University of Tennessee at Martin

The only public four-year college in West Tennessee outside Memphis, the University of Tennessee at Martin traces its roots to Hall-Moody Institute, founded by local Baptists in 1900. Named for J. N. Hall and J. B. Moody, two prominent Baptist…

University Of Tennessee At Martin

The Hall-Moody Administration Building on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Martin houses several administrative offices, including the Office of the Chancellor.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Founded in 1911, the UT Health Science Center includes the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy; the School of Biomedical Engineering; the Bowld Hospital in Memphis; and the Graduate School of Medicine and…

University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville

Fifty-four years after the city-owned and -operated Knoxville General Hospital opened in 1902, it was replaced by the University of Tennessee Memorial Research Center and Hospital. A number of forces converged to bring about the culmination of a nearly twelve-year…

University of the South

In 1857, when it was learned that the dioceses of the Episcopal Church planned to establish an educational center, citizens of Franklin County made common cause with the Sewanee Mining Company to offer a 10,000-acre parcel, half of which was…

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