The East Tennessee Historical Society & Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law with presenting sponsors KaTom Restaurant Supply, Ihop, & The Honorable Bill and Chrissy Haslam invite you to attend A Historic Evening with Jon Meacham
Destiny and Power: The American...Past Exhibits
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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker BushApril 21, 2022 - 8:00pm -
April 23, 2021 - 9:00am to January 30, 2022 - 5:00pm“There are two ways of understanding portraiture–either as history or as fiction.”–Charles Baudelaire, 1846
Portraits were the “social media posts” of the American colonial and antebellum periods.
Today, social media allows users to not only visually document and share life’s moments but also curate how...
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From Erzgebirge, Germany, to Wartburg, TennesseeNovember 22, 2021 - 9:00am to January 9, 2022 - 4:00pmA Family's Christmas TraditionCharles Gottlieb Ficke/Fickey and wife Ernestine Augusta Auerswald, through whom the crèche (above) and Christmas carousel (right) descended, immigrated to the United States from the Saxony region of Germany in 1883. Accompanying them were their sons Ernest, 15, and Theodore, 10.
An...
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East Tennessee Remembers 9/11August 23, 2021 - 9:00am to October 31, 2021 - 5:00pmFollowing the events of September 11, 2001, East Tennesseans contributed more than $940,000 to purchase and equip a 95-foot tower ladder truck for Harlem-based Ladder Company 14, helping the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) replenish the largest vehicles in the city's firefighting fleet. The so-called “Freedom Engine,” built by Seagrave...
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February 14, 2020 - 9:00am to February 28, 2021 - 5:00pmIntroductionKnoxville occupies a unique place in the American South. Following the Civil War, residents felt it was one of the few racially tolerant cities in the region. Unlike most cities in the South, African Americans in Knoxville could vote, hold public office, serve as police officers, and sit on juries. Despite this, racial tensions...
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August 18, 2020 - 9:00am to November 29, 2020 - 3:00pm“I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be...
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A (Hillbilly) History of Mountain DewJune 29, 2019 - 10:00am to January 27, 2020 - 4:00pmPlease note that while this exhibit ended in 2020, a few of the artifacts are still on display in the Museum of East Tennessee History.
“[Mountain Dew]’s pretty much a religious obsession for me.”
—Chris Whitley, 27-year-old superfan of Mountain Dew, Jackson, MississippiMountain Dew. Your parents likely warned you about the neon-...
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The Museum of East Tennessee History at 25September 15, 2018 - 10:00am to June 9, 2019 - 5:00pm“Let us hasten to redeem time that is lost.”—Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey to those in attendance at the East Tennessee Historical Society's first annual meeting, May 5, 1834 Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey’s plea to save Tennessee’s past continues to reverberate in the galleries of the East Tennessee Historical Society’s museum, a permanent home for our region’s...
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