During the first six months of this year, a committee assigned by the Tennessee Department of Education wrote a new…
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.
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…
If Cornelia hadn’t gotten on that plane, she would have stayed in Tennessee for the rest of her life. She…
Two years ago, Tennessee History for Kids produced a poster that honored some of the state’s preserved historic buildings. Last…
When people think of the civil rights movement, they often think of Selma or Montgomery, Ala., Atlanta or Memphis. Maybe…
A sample of insults from Tennessee’s most hated governor — William Brownlow William Brownlow was the governor of Tennessee from…
Folklore follows this early pioneer through a dubious history Thomas Spencer left his mark on Middle Tennessee. He left large…