This is a follow-up interview with Bill Conner, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant and currently the Military and Family Readiness Manager, 134th Air Refueling Wing at McGhee Tyson Airport. Conner has served with the United States Air Force and the Air Guard, with a career focused on broadcast media. He has worked in Iceland, […]
Emma Patterson, a friend and intern to the Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War, has been awarded the Achievement Award in the Arts and Sciences, Classics Division for her EUReCA poster and presentation. This research started with her internship at the Center! To view this project on our website, see “Triangle of Sovereignty: […]
Center Intern, Gracie Amburn, wins award at the Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium (ASUReS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
March 11 2025. Dr. Chris Magra, director for the Study of Tennesseans and War, interviewed Gail E. Link about her father, Wilbur S. Anderson about his service in World War II. Anderson was drafted on June 1, 1943 but later worked with the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. One of his jobs for the […]
On December 31st, 1862 on the banks of Stone’s River, one of the most hellish battles of the Civil War would take place. However, as bullets rained and cannons thundered, one man within the ranks of the Army of Tennessee, facing down some of the most intense fighting of the three-day battle, would come to […]
The Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee would like to inform you that we have recently set up a Facebook page. It can be found at https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofTennesseeCSWS/info?tab=overview or by searching for The Center for the Study of War and Society on Facebook. We encourage all of you to like and share […]
Graduate students active in the programs of the Center for the Study of War and Society continue to set new records! In March 2015, TWO of them made the New York Times. First, Robert Glaze (Doctoral student in US History, working on the Civil War) had a piece published in the New York Times online Disunion series: You […]
On Thursday, December 4, at 4 p.m., Dr. Stephen Fritz will deliver a talk titled: The Convulsions of Defeat: World War One and Hitler’s Ideology. The presentation will be held in the University of Tennessee’s Humanities Center, Melrose Hall, Room E 102. Dr. Fritz is a professor of modern European history at East Tennessee State […]
Dear Friends of CSWS, A history graduate student active in the Center’s programs, Josh Sander, just learned some great news. He has been awarded a 2014-15 Norman Raab Foundation Fellowship at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, for work on his dissertation project, “The Greater Germanic Reich: Nazification and the Creation […]
UT Forum on the Ukrainian Crisis and Russian Expansionism, Tues., April 8, 2014, 5:00 p.m., Hodges Library Auditorium. Recent events in Ukraine and Russia stand to change the landscape of American international relations for years or decades to come. Not only has Russia annexed Crimea, but it has embarked on a crackdown on the opposition […]