I’d like to devote this, my 200th column, to an interesting example of why even the best of columns can…
Browsing: History
Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
I recently set out to trace the history of the acre on which my house sits — back to its…
When early settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains, they left behind the Atlantic Ocean watershed for a land where every river…
This month is the 50th anniversary of the opening of Opryland USA, a theme park that was an important part…
I’m happy to say that Americans aren’t used to seeing soldiers, tanks and warplanes unless they happen to live near…
On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana was heading upstream on the Mississippi River, carrying more than 2,000 Union Army…
If you read this column regularly, you might remember that in September 2014, I started off with my opinion that…
On Monday, March 6, 1848, people walked around Nashville, excitedly blurting out the same sentence. “Did you hear that the…
One hundred ten years ago, three companies battled Mother Nature and labor disputes to pioneer hydropower in the Tennessee Valley…
In Tennessee, each town used to determine its own time Exactly what time did the Battle of Shiloh begin? What…