Events

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.…