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UT Press Celebrates 70th Anniversary!

In celebration of African American History Month and UT Press’s 70th anniversary, select titles are on sale for 20% to 50% off retail.

On February 15, 1940, UT President James D. Hoskins read a statement to the university trustees proposing the establishment of the Press. It became one of many prestigious university presses founded during the first half of the twentieth century, including the University of North Carolina Press in 1922, the University of Georgia Press in 1938, the University of South Carolina Press in 1944, and the University Press of Kentucky in 1949.

After 70 years of growth and change, the University of Tennessee Press has earned a reputation for excellence. Today it publishes 35 to 40 titles a year in many different disciplines. Some of the Press’s most outstanding publications include the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, edited by Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, winner of the 2007 Weatherford Award; Intellectual Life in the Colonial South by Richard Beale Davis, winner of the 1978 National Book Award in history; The Collected Works of James Agee, edited by Michael Lofaro; and the presidential papers of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and James K. Polk. The Press has published many outstanding works about the East Tennessee area, many from local authors. Popular titles include Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Community by Durwood Dunn, The Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English by Michael B. Montgomery and Joseph S. Hall, and several humor books, as well as works on other topics, by Knoxville News-Sentinel columnist Sam Venable. The Press has also reprinted a number of classic works about the South and the Appalachian region, including Horace Kephart’s famed Our Southern Highlanders, one of the very first books to document the culture of the Great Smoky Mountains.

We invite you to visit our website (www.utpress.org), review our featured titles on African American history, and in celebration of the Press’s 70th anniversary we are offering 20% to 50% off of that entire list. Browse, enjoy, purchase, and feel free to call us with any questions.

We look forward to bringing you yet more acclaimed, award-winning titles in the years to come!

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UT Press’s clothbound books are printed on paper designed to last for at least 300 years.

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