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Ahead of Her Time in Yesteryear Celebration and Book Signing
Friday, March 4, 2011 5:30 p.m. Miller F. Whittaker Library South Carolina State University Info: (803) 536-7045 Book signing and celebration highlighting the life of South Carolina State University alumna Mrs. Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman. Dr. Kibibi Mack-Shelton’s book about Mrs. Zimmerman, Ahead of Her Time in Yesteryear, will be available.
Bird Fever: Lyn Bales Featured in Chapter 16
"Combining nature, biography, history, and mythos, Ghost Birds is concerned not only with rare birds but also with rare birders. Specifically, Bales follows the course of a great but little-known American naturalist named Jim Tanner, who in 1935, at the age of twenty, set off on what would become one of the greatest cross-country bird-watching ...
Humorist Sam Venable on WUOT-FM’s Dialogue
Award-winning author, news columnist, and humorist Sam Venable was the February guest on WUOT-FM's Dialogue with Chrissy Keuper. If you missed it you can listen to the podcast at wuot.org.
The Tennessee Encyclopedia 2.0 is live!
Visit tennesseeencyclopedia.net and see what’s new: * Over 50 new and thoroughly updated entries * Optimized for enhanced performance and faster response time * Sleek new design that will make the site even easier to navigate PLUS enjoy big savings on UT Press books about Tennessee history.
UTP’s Karwhite, Pelton Lauded for Book Designs
The Southeastern Library Association granted two awards to UT Press designers in its 2009 Southern Books Competition. Barbara Karwhite’s THE WARS OF MYRON KING: A B-17 PILOT FACES WWII AND U.S.–SOVIET INTRIGUE won an Honorable Mention for dust jacket design. Chad Pelton’s AMERICA’S MAIN STREET HOTELS: TRANSIENCY AND COMMUNITY IN THE EARLY AUTO ...
Harry Moore’s Latest Tells Story of War and Ultimate Sacrifice
The Lonely Road is the story of nine men—all of whom lived on the same road in the small community of Nance in Crockett County, Tennessee, and all of whom, within eighteen months of each other, gave the supreme sacrifice for their country during World War II. They fought in different regiments, platoons, and ...
UTP's Scot Danforth on The Scruffy Citizen
UT Press director Scot Danforth talked books and discussed the press's 70th anniversary on this week's The Scruffy Citizen with Jack Neely. Check it out at http://www.knoxivi.com/index.php/lifestyle/the-scruffy-citizen.
Celebrating 50 years of To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird was published 50 years ago this year. The press has published one of the few secondary works about this famous novel, Alice Hall Petry, ed., On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections. For more information on the ...
