I talk to many knowledgeable people about Tennessee history. Perhaps no fact astonishes them more than the following: Joint Base…
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.
What you thought you knew about Tennessee’s caves, rivers, borders and more Although Tennessee History for Kids’ focus is history…
Barrett, Egerton and Seigenthaler informed and inspired us I’m lucky to have met and befriended some amazing people. Unfortunately, three…
This month is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Franklin — also known as the bloodiest five hours in…
Millions of Americans have followed in the steps of the Little River Lumber Company without realizing it. Before the national…
In my view, the influenza epidemic of 1918 is the most overlooked event in American history. It killed up to…
In November 1925, a new employee of the National Life & Accident Insurance Co. drove his “trick lizzie,” as he…
I spent a good part of last summer and fall searching for old photographs to be included in the Tennessee…
If you look it up, you will find that there have been somewhere in the range of 40 treaties between…
The Appalachian Trail stretches roughly 2,180 miles from Georgia to Maine. It crosses mountain crests, streams, rivers, dirt roads, Interstate…