A hundred years ago, Dayton became the setting of a nationally publicized trial over science, religion and public education.…
Author: Bill Carey
Bill Carey
Bill Carey founded Tennessee History for Kids in 2004. The non-profit organization helps teachers cover Tennessee history, American history, civics and basic social studies, and uses booklets, posters, inservices and the website www.tnhistoryforkids.org. Carey was a reporter in Nashville through most of the 1990s and has written six books, among them Fortunes Fiddles and Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History and Runaways, Coffles and Fancy Girls: A History of Slavery in Tennessee.
A hundred years ago, the Tennessee General Assembly did one of the most important things in its history when it…
Note: A previous version of this article had inaccurate information about why Montgomery ceased to be the county seat of…
Fifty-five years ago, people were talking about Tennessee’s new ski resort.It’s probably not the one you think it was.In 1967,…
by Bill Carey, the Tennessee History Guy If you ask Google, it might tell you that there are no Native…
I’ve learned to be careful when writing that someone or something was the first of its kind.As it turns out,…
In 1850, progress was passing by the town of Fayetteville. In desperation, its merchants made a bold move that didn’t…
Since he was the second governor of Tennessee and since there’s a county named for him, one might assume that…
In 1846, a bookseller was arrested in Columbia, Tennessee, and accused of circulating abolitionist literature — a crime as illegal…
Eleven years ago, Tennessee History for Kids and the Tennessee Historical Commission produced 10,000 copies of a poster called “Tennessee’s…