The more I read stories about the early history of Middle Tennessee, the more I am struck by how much…
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.
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…
This story starts with a groundhog and ends with a mountain goat. In 1845, Thomas Wooten owned a small farm…
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…