This story starts with a groundhog and ends with a mountain goat. In 1845, Thomas Wooten owned a small farm…
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 government of Memphis wants to dig up Nathan Bedford Forrest’s remains and move them to Elmwood Cemetery, which is…
Charles Coolidge of Signal Mountain recently received quite a bit of publicity, and deservedly so. Tennessee’s last living World War…
A century ago, on July 31, 1915, a group of Arkansas militiamen raided a camp of bootleggers and other lawbreakers…
Most people do not know that there were prisoner-of-war camps in Tennessee during World War II. They were at Camp…
I have been doing this column for more than nine years, and this is the first time I have written…
I recently read that Tennessee Temple University of Chattanooga was closing after 69 years in operation. Tennessee Temple is merging…
I am not an expert on Memphis history. But I know someone who is. His name is Jimmy Ogle. He…
Those of us who write about history sometimes fall into the trap of making the same mistake someone else made.…
I talk to many knowledgeable people about Tennessee history. Perhaps no fact astonishes them more than the following: Joint Base…