Dickson County commune attempted to build a utopian society Just when you think you’ve heard everything about Tennessee history, along…
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.
May is National Preservation Month. In honor of this, Tennessee History for Kids and the Tennessee Historical Commission have produced…
Talk about a venture that was ahead of its time. In 1790 — when Nashville was a fort surrounded by…
At about 2 a.m. on Dec. 16, 1811, the ground began to shake uncontrollably. Large trees throughout Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas,…