Did You Know?

  • Five UT Press titles have won the prestigious W. D. Weatherford Award:
    • 2007 – Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia
    • 2004  – Michael Montgomery – Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
    • 1989 – John Inscoe – Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina
    • 1987 – Rodger Cunningham – Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience
    • 1982 – Ronald Eller – Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers
  • UT Press’s clothbound books are printed on paper designed to last for at least 300 years.
  • In his New York Times review, Roy Blount Jr. called the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English “real home cooking, with the bark on.”(Read the full review here)
  • Horace Kephart’s Camping and Woodcraft and Our Southern Highlanders were highlighted in the Smoky Mountains segment of Ken Burns’s National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
  • Actor Morgan Freeman wrote the Foreword for Highway 61: Heart of the Delta by Randy Norris and Jean-Philippe Cypres.
  • The online Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, to date, has received more than 15 million hits! TEHC is sponsored by UT Press and the Tennessee Historical Society.
  • UT Press currently has 1,601 titles in print.
  • UT Press’s imprint dates back to 1898, its publishing mandate dates back to 1940, and in 1957 the press became a full-time publisher of scholarly books.
  • Though located in Knoxville, UT Press represents all UT campuses: Chattanooga, Knoxville, Martin, and Memphis.
  • Adam Gussow and Sterling Magee make a brief appearance in U2’s documentary, Rattle and Hum. Gussow is the author of Journeyman’s Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner’s Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York.