Events

Mary Ellen Pethel, Ph.D. and Don Cusic, Howdy! The Minnie Pearl Story (University of Tennessee Press), in conversation with Mary Beth Pruett Throughout her career, Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon skillfully balanced her…

Sheri Sellmeyer, Nashville’s New Americans: Tracing the Journeys of Immigrant Neighbors (Vanderbilt University Press) in conversation with Cindy Abrams Whether it’s building skyscrapers, running successful restaurants, researching diseases, performing music, cleaning hotel…

Scott Williams, Townmania: Marcus Winchester and the Making of Memphis Marcus Winchester (1796–1856) devoted his life to transforming the small settlement on the fourth Chickasaw bluff into a thriving center of…

Timothy D. Johnson, Robert Neyland: The West Point Engineer Who Built Tennessee Football (University of Tennessee Press) Robert Neyland was not your typical college football coach. A graduate of West Point and…

Joe Pagetta, The Apostle of Tennessee: The Indefatigable Life and Ministry of Father Aloysius Orengo (Vanderbilt University Press) When Nashville became a Catholic diocese in 1837, it was mostly an aspirational exercise.…