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View of the Knoxville Museum of Art from the Knoxville World s Fair Park.

Catherine Wiley, Morning, 1921, oil on canvas.

Bessie Harvey, Moses and the Serpent, 1988, painted wood, putty cloth, human hair, yarn, plastic eyes.

Currently the only daily newspaper in Knoxville, the News-Sentinel began in December 1886 as the evening Sentinel published by John Travis Hearn, a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky. The first four-page edition of the Sentinel was printed on a steam-operated flatbed…

Knoxville Riot of 1919

The Knoxville riot took place on August 30-31, 1919. Although many historians question whether it was a "race riot" in the classic sense, it bore many characteristics of that phenomenon. The arrest of Maurice Mayes, a sometimes deputy sheriff, touched…

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Knoxville World's Fair of 1982

The Knoxville International Energy Exposition was held from May through October 1982 on a 67-acre area a few blocks west of the city's central business district. The idea of a world's fair in Knoxville was first conceived by W. Stewart…

Knoxville, Battle of

The eighteen-day siege of Knoxville from November 17 to December 4, 1863, stemmed from two interrelated causes. First, General Braxton Bragg, commander of the Army of Tennessee, desired to divert troops from the Federal army holding the city of Chattanooga.…

Krystal Company

This Chattanooga-based hamburger chain was founded in 1932 by Rodolph B. Davenport Jr. and J. Glenn Sherrill. Loosely patterned after the successful midwestern White Castle hamburger chain which had begun in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, Krystal capitalized on the economic…

Krystal Company

The first Krystal restaurant opened in Chattanooga in 1932.

Ku Klux Klan

A meeting of the Ku Klux Klan at Nashville in 1957.

Ku Klux Klan

The infamous Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was organized in May or early June of 1866 in a law office in Pulaski by six bored Confederate veterans (the "immortal six"). The Ku Klux Klan was, in its inception, a social club…

Labor

In its broadest context, "labor" refers to a very diverse set of conditions: slave and free labor; craft and industrial labor; farm and factory labor; and blue, pink, and white collar labor. Because there are few theses, dissertations, or secondary…

Labor

Striking workers picket the company store while scab workers man the copper mines in Ducktown, Tennessee.

Ladies' Hermitage Association

The Ladies' Hermitage Association was organized in 1889 to honor President Andrew Jackson by preserving his home, the Hermitage. Mrs. Andrew Jackson III and Mary C. Dorris suggested a women's association similar to The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association after Dorris…

Lake County

Located in the northwest corner of Tennessee, Lake County is bounded by Kentucky on the north, Reelfoot Lake and Obion County on the east, the Mississippi River on the west, and Dyer County on the south. The smallest county in…

Lake County Slideshow

Lamar Alexander

Governor Lamar Alexander.

Lambuth University

The Gates of Lambuth University are known by the University community as the "Gates of Change." Located in Jackson, TN, Lambuth strives to be an academic community of free inquiry in which men and women may prepare for lives of leadership and service to God and humanity.

Lambuth University

On December 2, 1843, the Memphis Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church received a charter from the Tennessee General Assembly authorizing the establishment of a young women's preparatory school and college to be named the Memphis Conference Female Institute (MCFI).…

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