The Appalachian Trail stretches roughly 2,180 miles from Georgia to Maine. It crosses mountain crests, streams, rivers, dirt roads, Interstate…
Author: Bill Carey
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…
In the 1920s, there was a sign along Highway 70 in White County that read: Property Line Tennessee Products Corporation…