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December 2023

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Cover of the last issue of the Torchbearer

A Scruffy Star on the Literary Map — Cormac McCarthy’s Knoxville

Brooks Clark, UTK MFA 2016, delves into the connection between Cormac McCarthy and Knoxville through his literary works in the Fall 2023 issue of the Torchbearer. Clark speaks with Bill Hardwig following McCarthy’s death to discuss Knoxville’s recent embrace of one of its native sons.

Native Americans depicted at the first Thanksgiving feast, in a 1960 film about the Pilgrims’ first year in America. AP Photo

Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement on Native lands

Lisa Michelle King, University of Tennessee Too often, K-12 social studies classes in the U.S. teach a mostly glossed-over story of U.S. settlement. Textbooks tell the stories of adventurous European explorers founding colonies in the “New World,” and stories of the “first Thanksgiving” frequently portray happy colonists and Native Americans feasting together. Accounts of the colonies’ battle […]