Remembering Knoxville
From its birth to the present, Knoxville has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, the city has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.
With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Knoxville, William E. Hardy provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Knoxville. Remembering Knoxville captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From the city’s early days in the nineteenth century to recent times, Remembering Knoxville follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city’s history.
This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
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Book details
- Text by
- William E. Hardy
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
History › United States › State & Local › Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) - Topics
- Tennessee history · local history · historic photography · American cities · city growth and development · 19th century America
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368458
About the author
WILLIAM E. HARDY is a historian specializing in nineteenth-century American history, with a focus on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. He is Assistant Professor of History and Lincoln Scholar at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.
Hardy received the 2023 McClung Award for the best article in the Journal of East Tennessee History. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in American History from the University of Louisville and a Ph.D. in nineteenth-century American history from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published articles in Civil War History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and the Journal of East Tennessee History.
When not writing, Hardy draws on his work at the East Tennessee Historical Society, where he served as Academic Coordinator and Project Manager on federal Teaching American History grants.