Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
Tennessee towns didn’t just “happen.” They were founded by investors who pooled their money, sent…
I’ve never written as much as I have during the past 18 months. Tennessee has…
Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796. Today, when students read this fact in…
On July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis delivered a crate to a tiny island in…
During my decade and a half of writing content for the Tennessee History for Kids…
Women couldn’t vote in America until 1920. These two unlikely partners helped the 19th Amendment…
It was the South’s most desperate battle — and is the South’s least-remembered. In December…
In the early decades of American history, Tennessee was regarded as the West. But for…
The real story of why Tennessee rewrote its sacred document in 1870 There aren’t many…
A historical look at the changes in our mobility Before the airplane, car, railroad and…