by design | Apr 23, 2025 | The Daily Focus
More Than 200 Tennessee Students Participate in Annual History Day Competition Recently, 217 students from across the Volunteer State participated in the 2025 Tennessee History Day Competition; at stake was a chance to represent Tennessee at National History...
by design | Apr 22, 2025 | The Daily Focus
East Tennessee History Center wins nine awards at statewide conference The East Tennessee History Center (ETHC) was the recipient of nine awards at the recent Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM) Annual Conference. The TAM Awards ceremony was held at the Knoxville...
by design | Apr 21, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Israel – Killing Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On Palm Sunday (April 13), Israeli bombs destroyed the surgery and intensive care sections of the “last fully functional hospital in Gaza City,” according...
by design | Apr 21, 2025 | Black, Columnist
What Would Adam Smith Do? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I read Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” in my junior year at Georgia – yes, we actually had to read books when I was in...
by design | Apr 21, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Brownian Motion Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein By Dr. Jim Ferguson Some may find it odd, but lately I’ve been thinking about Brownian motion. And because I believe the best writing is about things that interest the...
