The University of Tennessee Press is a

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associated with the

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, ...

. UT Press was established in 1940 by the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees. The University of Tennessee Press issues about 35 books each year.Q&A: Tom Post of University of Tennessee Press
Civil War Books and Authors website, December 9, 2010 Its specialties include scholarly lists in African American studies,

southern history The history of the Southern United States spans back thousand of years to the first evidence of human occupation. The Paleo-Indians were the first peoples to inhabit the Americas and what would become the Southern United States. By the time Eu ...

Appalachian studies Appalachian studies is the area studies field concerned with the Appalachian region of the United States. Scholarship Some of the first well-known Appalachian scholarship was done by Cratis D. Williams. His 1937 MA thesis in English from the Univ ...

material culture Material culture is the aspect of social reality grounded in the objects and architecture that surround people. It includes the usage, consumption, creation, and trade of objects as well as the behaviors, norms, and rituals that the objects creat ...

, and literary studies, as well as books on regional topics written for general readers. Notable books about

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

Appalachia Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ca ...

that were issued by the Press include: *

Horace Kephart Horace Sowers Kephart (September 8, 1862 – April 2, 1931) was an American travel writer and librarian, best known as the author of '' Our Southern Highlanders'' (a memoir about his life in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina) ...

's ''

Our Southern Highlanders ''Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers'' is a book written by American author Horace Kephart (1862–1931), first published in 1913 and revised in 1922. Insp ...

'' (1976) * ''Cades Cove: A Southern Appalachian Community'', by Durwood Dunn (1988) * ''Tennesseans and Their History'' by Paul Bergeron, Stephen Ash, and Jeannette Keith (1999) * ''The Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English'' by Michael Montgomery and Joseph S. Hall (2004) * Bobby Lovett's ''The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History'', winner of the 2005 Tennessee History Book Award. * '' Encyclopedia of Appalachia'', published in 2006 in association with the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services of

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. This 2,000-page resource, edited by Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, contains contributions from nearly 700 scholars. Six UT Press books related to Appalachia, including the ''Encyclopedia of Appalachia'', have won the Appalachian Studies Association's annual Weatherford Award. Four UT Press books in the field of material culture have won the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award: * Charles Martin, ''Hollybush: Folk Building and Social Change in an Appalachian Community'' (1985) * Bernard L. Herman, ''Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700–1900'' (1987) * Kingston Heath, ''The Patina of Place: Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape'' (2001) * J. Ritchie Garrison, ''Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England, 1799–1859'' (2007) Some other noteworthy books that UT Press has published are: * Charles Hudson's ''The Southeastern Indians'' (1976) *

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (April 17, 1912 – August 29, 1992) was an activist during the Civil Rights Movement and educator in Montgomery, Alabama. Early life Born Jo Ann Gibson, near Culloden, Georgia, on April 17, 1912, she was the youngest of ...

's ''The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It'' (1978) *

Richard Beale Davis Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

's ''Intellectual Life in the Colonial South'', for which Davis received the 1978

National Book Award The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The Nat ...

in history *

Warren Grabau A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval An ...

's ''Ninety-eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign'' (2000), which was named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by the magazine '' Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries'' *

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's ''Wishbone: Reference and Interpretation in Black Folk Narrative'' (2003), another of ''Choice'' magazine's Outstanding Academic Title. A major

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project of the UT Press is the ''

Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture ''Tennessee Encyclopedia'' is a reference book on the U.S. state of Tennessee that was published in book form in 1998 and has also been available online since 2002. Contents include history, geography, culture, and biography. The original print e ...

'', created in cooperation with the

Tennessee Historical Society The Tennessee Historical Society is a historical society for the U.S. state of Tennessee. It was established in 1849. Its founding president from 1849 to 1856 was Nathaniel Cross, a Princeton-educated professor of Ancient Languages at the Universi ...

. When it first appeared in 2002, this was the second online state encyclopedia ever produced. The UT Press continues to update and expand it. According to UT Press, its long-term plans include the creation of digital editions of the ''Encyclopedia of Appalachia'' and ''The Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English''.

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