Many of Tennessee’s communities were once called something else In my December column, I wrote about towns and cities in…
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.
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…
During the first six months of this year, a committee assigned by the Tennessee Department of Education wrote a new…
Former slaves who left the South to move north and west in the 1870s were known as Exodusters. Many of…
In the 1920s, there was a sign along Highway 70 in White County that read: Property Line Tennessee Products Corporation…
Paul Clements spent 11 years researching first-person accounts of the early settlements of Middle Tennessee. He assembled every available account…
The Nashville Unionist and his glorious flag: Captain William Driver’s large American flag, handmade for the captain by the ladies of…