I recently learned that the tiny family cemetery near my office in suburbia is the final resting place of a…
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.
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…
It is the strangest item in the Tennessee Historical Society’s collection. The Tennessee Museum puts it on display once a…
The members of the mob were all hooded and armed. One of them tied a rope around the neck of…
Three years ago, I wrote about recent changes to the social studies standards that increased what students were supposed to…
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.…
Alex Stewart’s memories Reflecting on life for Tennessee pioneers Authors and columnists have a tendency to write about famous battles…
The story behind historic War Department letter When you start researching the story behind a single document, you never know…