Here are five interesting news stories in the world of Tennessee history that didn’t make it in our regular features.…
Browsing: Tennessee History for Kids
The Volunteer State was affected indirectly but felt the effects for a very long time Last month, on the 100th…
Photographs courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives One hundred years ago, the United States entered World War I…
Fort Blount found after more than 200 years The first week of May 1797 was an interesting time to be…
Reflecting on life for Tennessee pioneers Authors and columnists have a tendency to write about famous battles and famous people.…
Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Tennessee — 6,643 feet above sea level. I suspect that most of the…
Twice in the last three years I have written about Middle Tennessee historic sites that were in danger of being…
In 1850, about one in five Tennesseans was held against his or her will, forced to live as a slave.…
This is my 120th column. I’ve written about the Civil War, the civil rights movement, Andrew Jackson, Elvis Presley, the…
I have heard that one of the best early maps of Tennessee was produced by Matthew Rhea in 1832. So…