In November 1925, a new employee of the National Life & Accident Insurance Co. drove his “trick lizzie,” as he…
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.
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…
… but wins an election and builds his myth In 1825, David Crockett lived in a cabin in West Tennessee…
Many of Tennessee’s communities were once called something else In my December column, I wrote about towns and cities in…
Immediately after World War II, a pair of nationally publicized riots in Tennessee foreshadowed huge changes that would happen in…
Tennesseans won decisive victory at New Orleans A few years ago, I found a brochure for a New Orleans museum…
A history of Tennessee town name changes and why they occurred By now, many people have heard that the Anderson…
This summer, I researched and wrote four new “Tennessee History for Kids” booklets. In the process, I found some remarkable…