Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Tennessee — 6,643 feet above sea level. I suspect that most of the…
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.
In a story that involves Tennessee’s colonial and Native American history, a proposal to deed 76 acres of Tellico Lake…
Some places are recognized for the important and interesting events that occurred there. Then there is Nickajack Cave in Marion…
Thanks to the new social studies standards, the civil rights movement in Tennessee is finally receiving the recognition it deserves.…
The Tennessee Valley Authority built a dam in Johnson County in the 1940s, permanently flooding the valley that included the…
The more I read stories about the early history of Middle Tennessee, the more I am struck by how much…
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…