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University of Tennessee Press - Academic and Regional Book Publishing

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The University of Tennessee Press is dedicated to playing a significant role in the intellectual life of the University of Tennessee system, the academic community in general, and the citizens of the state of Tennessee by publishing high-quality works of original scholarship in selected fields as well as highly accurate and informative regional studies and literary fiction. By utilizing current technology to provide the best possible vehicles for the publication of scholarly and regional works, the press preserves and disseminates information for scholars, students, and general readers.

A Brief History

The University of Tennessee Press was established as a scholarly publisher in 1940 by the university trustees. Its mandate was threefold: to stimulate scholarly research in many fields; to channel such studies to a large readership; and to extend the university’s regional leadership by publishing worthy projects about the South, including those by non-university authors.

The press has earned a national reputation for excellence with its lists in African American studies, Southern history, Appalachian studies, material culture, and literary studies, as well as many regional books written for general readers. Over the years, its important publications have included Richard Beale Davis’s Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, which won the 1978 National Book Award in history; Charles Hudson’s The Southeastern Indians (1976), still the standard work on the subject; Jo Ann Gibson Robinson’s The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It (1978); Durwood Dunn’s Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community (1988); and James Lee McDonough’s Shiloh—In Hell Before Night (1977).