I’ve written 175 of these columns, half a dozen books, 1,500 pages of Tennessee History…

I’ve come to believe that the oversimplified version of history told in textbooks and on…

The more I research Tennessee history, the more I find that granite markers and books…

Before he was famous, he helped organize Lawrence County. Before becoming president, he was a…

As Tennesseans prepare to celebrate the centennial of Tennessee’s critical passage of the suffrage amendment,…

There’s been a lot of wrangling about what to do with the bust of Nathan…

Was it an experiment in socialism, an example of what the federal government could do…

They are extinct institutions that used to be part of our culture and will always…

The first time I met Abraham Lincoln was at a history festival in Nashville in…

I was recently driving through Smith County on Highway 70 when I did a double…