Classes were suspended for most of the Civil War but that didn't mean the Knoxville campus went unused. Troops from both ...

It wasn’t renamed the University of Tennessee until 1879. Nine years after the war, after fits and starts in Congress, the federal government agreed to compensate the university for damages ...

The reason the Knoxville campus has fewer buildings on the University of Tennessee System's priority list is twofold. One has ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus recently. State law requires excavation any time there ...

The University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees has approved major construction priorities for the flagship UT campus in Knoxville, with two new academic buildings collectively priced at $483 ...

Instead, the university began operating in downtown Knoxville, in what would later become the Knoxville City Hall. It wasn’t renamed the University of Tennessee until 1879.