The Center received a generous donation this week from George Zepp and the Keen Family. They provided us with three boxes full of World War II materials owned by William George Keen, an Army Air Force lieutenant. Donations such this have enabled Center researchers to piece together the stories of people from Tennessee who have […]
This Veterans Day, the Veterans Success Center is holding a barbeque in honor of Veterans. All Veterans are welcome to attend! Follow this link to learn about all of the Veterans Day events taking place on campus: https://news.utk.edu/2022/11/02/veterans-day-a-week-of-celebrations/
The 2022 International Women in Aviation Conference will be inducting Captain Rosemary Mariner into the Women in Aviation’s Pioneer Hall of Fame. The conference will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, March 17-19, 2022. Cpt. Mariner’s induction ceremony and celebration dinner will be on Saturday, March 19, from […]
John C. McManus (’96) will be giving the keynote speech at the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Associations 11th Annual Medal of Honor Evening on May 2, 2022. The event will be located at Knoxville’s Historic Foundry Building at World’s Fair Park. Social hour begins at 5:30pm with dinner and McManus’s speech to start at 6:30pm. […]
John C. McManus (’96) received the seventh annual Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History for his book Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History bestows the $50,000 prize annually in recognition of the best book in the field of military history published in English […]
We were delighted to participate last week in the Knox County Schools In-Service District Learning Day organized by the Knox County Schools Social Studies Department. Under the theme of “Americans at War”, Dr. Freeberg (Chair, UT History Dept.) lectured on WWI and Dr. Liulevicius lectured on strategies for teaching WWII. It was great to meet […]
Our brief video documentary, “The Knoxville Veterans Legacy Program at University of Tennessee”, chronicles the work of the 2017-2018 Veterans Legacy Program in Knoxville, Tennessee, funded by a contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Knoxville National Cemetery was established in the midst of the Civil War, and since then United States Veterans […]
UT’s Center for the Study of War and Society and our History Department have been awarded a contract as part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ new Veterans Legacy Program. This program pairs local universities and local school systems to produce education materials and public outreach programs about local National Cemeteries, telling the individual stories […]
UT’s Center for the Study of War and Society and our History Department have been awarded a contract as part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ new Veterans Legacy Program. This program pairs local universities and local school systems to produce education materials and public outreach programs about local National Cemeteries, telling the individual stories […]