Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796. Today, when students read this fact in the history books, it seems…
Author: Bill Carey
On July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis delivered a crate to a tiny island in the South Pacific called Tinian.…
During my decade and a half of writing content for the Tennessee History for Kids website, I’ve come across many…
Women couldn’t vote in America until 1920. These two unlikely partners helped the 19th Amendment along. In July 1920, Tennessee…
It was the South’s most desperate battle — and is the South’s least-remembered. In December 1864, what was left of…
In the early decades of American history, Tennessee was regarded as the West. But for some people, it wasn’t west…
The real story of why Tennessee rewrote its sacred document in 1870 There aren’t many Tennessee laws that address social…
A historical look at the changes in our mobility Before the airplane, car, railroad and steamboat, there was the stagecoach.…
Public schools to teach a semester of Tennessee history in fifth grade Nearly two years ago, I wrote a column…
A literal paper trail pieces together a dark chapter in our history and reminds us never to repeat it again.…