The University of Tennessee Press is a
university press 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,
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 Uni ...
,
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 crea ...
, 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 ...
or
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, ...
that were issued by the Press include:
*
Horace Kephart's ''
Our Southern Highlanders'' (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
Bobby Lovett is an American historian. He is an emeritus professor of History at Tennessee State University, where he served as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1999 to 2009. He is the author of several books about African-America ...
's ''The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History'', winner of the 2005 Tennessee History Book Award.
* ''
Encyclopedia of Appalachia The Encyclopedia of Appalachia is the first encyclopedia dedicated to the region, people, culture, history, and geography of Appalachia. The Region, as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission, is a 205,000-square-mile area that follows the ...
'', published in 2006 in association with the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services of
East Tennessee State University
East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is a public research university in Johnson City, Tennessee. Although it is part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee, the university is governed by an institutional Board of Tr ...
. 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
The Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) is an organization of scholars and activists interested in Appalachian studies.
According to its web site, “The Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) was formed in 1977 by a group of scholars, teachers, ...
'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:
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Charles Hudson's ''The Southeastern Indians'' (1976)
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Jo Ann Gibson Robinson's ''The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It'' (1978)
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Richard Beale Davis'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 N ...
in history
*
Warren Grabau'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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Laura Jarmon's ''Wishbone: Reference and Interpretation in Black Folk Narrative'' (2003), another of ''Choice'' magazine's Outstanding Academic Title.
A major
online publication project of the UT Press is the ''
Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', created in cooperation with the
Tennessee Historical Society. 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''.
References
External links
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Publishing companies established in 1940