Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, TN

Genealogy database highlights

If you're interested in history and genealogy, you'll want to spend some time in the Footnote database, which is now available to all Knox County Public Library card holders without restrictions on premium content when accessing it from home.

Students can find interesting primary source documents for their homework assignments, such as an FBI case file mentioning Helen Keller, or the decree of the Court freeing the Africans of the Schooner Amistad.

• Discover historical documents using a wealth of different search and browse options like Keyword or Person search, explore by historical era, etc.
• Documents can be viewed, downloaded and printed at high resolution with many advanced options such as:
• Adjust image contrast 
• Adjust image height to full screen
• Zoom in and out
• Rotate images
• Spotlight an image
• Make annotations
• Make image connections / Bookmark the image
• Save to your gallery or download
• Share an image
• Print and download images and documents

Footnote includes:

• Footnote™ History and Genealogy Archives
• African American Archives
• American Revolution Archives
• Native American Archives
• U.S. Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives
• World War II Archives

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Christopher Walsh offers insights into McCarthy's Southern works

Christopher Walsh, author of In the Wake of the Sun: Navigating the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy, discusses his book and his favorite aspects of McCarthy's work in this podcast, edited from his public remarks.

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Knox County Public Library Podcasts by Knox County Public Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. © 2010 Some Rights Reserved.

Favorite Poem reading

In celebration of National Poetry Month this April, several people came together to read their favorite poems aloud to each other. This program was suggested and led by Daryl Learn Houston.

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Knox County Public Library Podcasts by Knox County Public Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. © 2010 Some Rights Reserved. Music credit: "Brian Writes Poetry" by Lee Rogers (available on Mevio).