If you look it up, you will find that there have been somewhere in the range of 40 treaties between…
Author: Bill Carey
The Appalachian Trail stretches roughly 2,180 miles from Georgia to Maine. It crosses mountain crests, streams, rivers, dirt roads, Interstate…
but wins an election and builds his myth In 1825, David Crockett lived in a cabin in West Tennessee in…
Many of Tennessee’s communities were once called something else In my December column, I wrote about towns and cities in…
Immediately after World War II, a pair of nationally publicized riots in Tennessee foreshadowed huge changes that would happen in…
Tennesseans won decisive victory at New Orleans A few years ago, I found a brochure for a New Orleans museum…
A history of Tennessee town name changes and why they occurred By now, many people have heard that the Anderson…
This summer, I researched and wrote four new “Tennessee History for Kids” booklets. In the process, I found some remarkable…
During the first six months of this year, a committee assigned by the Tennessee Department of Education wrote a new…
Former slaves who left the South to move north and west in the 1870s were known as Exodusters. Many of…