Zach Keith

Public historian and archivist. Opinions expressed are my own.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

@AstorAaron Ah, Fort Kid.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Trouble! at Coal Creek

Join Austin Sauerbrei and Katey Lauer for a virtual launch of a new gripping graphic novel that tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War.

Tuesday, July 22nd at 5 PM ET

RSVP:
https://t.co/cGptObJWIM

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

@rzacellis It also brought us the quote from TLJ to Jim Carrey: I cannot sanction your buffoonery.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

@AstorAaron This looks great. This is very close to what my master’s thesis was on and I believe he mentions it in his dissertation on which this is based. Looking forward to it.

[Bob Hutton @HerecomesDrBob]

More info on the 2019 arson attack on the HIGHLANDER Center in eastTN. Suspicions circulated that this was a right wing hate crime against the historic organization, and it turns out those suspicions were probably correct.

https://t.co/smxNvAIi75

[Bob Hutton @HerecomesDrBob]

Arrests made for 2019 Arson at Tennessee's HIGHLANDER Center

https://t.co/feyeAbvFHp

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MEMPHIS — The historic Clayton Temple Church, a centerpiece of the civil rights movement, burned down early this morning… “unknown what caused the fire”….

The iconic “I AM A MAN” signs were printed in the basement

[Bennessee @bennessee_]

fascist state

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Remembering the Giants, Knoxville's sensational championship baseball club a century ago https://t.co/w5qKtncFW1

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

[Rocky Top Insider @rockytopinsider]

ONIONS.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

Gleaner Printing was one of the few Black-owned printers in Knoxville and clearly successful as evidenced by Smith’s luxurious home.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

Noah W. Smith owned this beautiful
Victorian home at 205 E. Vine Avenue. Built in 1893 by merchant and banker, William L.
Russell, Smith purchased it in 1913. Smith founded Gleaner Printing Company in 1896 and ran the print shop out of a building behind his home on Vine Avenue.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

The Knoxville Housing Authority included 205 E. Vine in their Riverfront-Willow Urban Renewal Project. They took the unusual step of photographing the interior of his home, one of just a handful. Smith died in 1956, just three months after KHA acquired his home and business.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

teams in her 8 seasons as a pro for the Muskegon and Kalamazoo Lassies. These photos and poster are from her collection. A poster, a photo of her and Dorothy “Mac” Maguire, Chattanoogan teammate Dorothy “Monty” Montgomery, and the team at 1947 Spring Training in Havana, Cuba.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

Many of you are familiar with the movie or TV adaptation of A League of Their Own. One of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League’s players was Knoxville’s own Doris Sams. She excelled at both pitching and batting, winning two MVP awards and selected to 5 all-star

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

Photos of Humes Hall and the rest of Presidential Court followed by Clement Hall on the University of Tennessee’s campus. Taken between 1964-1969.

[Bob Hutton @HerecomesDrBob]

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

https://t.co/ufF1h9qnSX

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

Images of the newly-built Communications Building with Neyland Stadium in the background from 1969. The shot from across the river is from 1978 and the aerial photo showing Neyland still as a horseshoe is from
1962. All from the Yale Avenue Redevelopment Project series.

[Zach Keith @zachkeith]

Images of the newly-built Communications Building with Neyland Stadium in the background from 1969. The shot from across the river is from 1978 and the aerial photo showing Neyland still as a horseshoe is from
1962. All from the Yale Avenue Redevelopment Project series.