I’m happy to say that Americans aren’t used to seeing soldiers, tanks and warplanes unless they happen to live near…
Browsing: History
Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
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…
There are 31 words in the Pledge of Allegiance — only one of which comes up in no other sentence…
Changes in gear and rules have done a lot to make the sport safer I interrupt this football season for…
Trains picked up where the riverboats left off, making important hubs out of four Tennessee towns Tennessee has four principal…
Thousands of smaller waterways served early settlers not just in hydration but in navigation, industry and town planning There’s a…