Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
Trains picked up where the riverboats left off, making important hubs out of four Tennessee…
Thousands of smaller waterways served early settlers not just in hydration but in navigation, industry…
Tennessee history proves that laws about who votes and how they’re allowed to can affect…
Tennessee has many ghost towns — abandoned because they were once owned by a coal…
The name forgotten from when Tennessee became a state 225 years ago It’s a celebration…
Now that the 100th anniversaries of World War I and the influenza epidemic have passed,…
What if we renamed Tennessee’s counties to better reflect what they’re known for? Find your…
All smirking aside — when Tennessee first paved its highways, the most controversial stretch of…
Justin “Jet” Potter rose to be one of the richest men in Tennessee in the…
The best newspaper clippings in Tennessee history didn’t announce monumental events. They contain comments about…