When it comes to history, politicians and generals get all the glory, but no one gives credit to the engineers.…
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.
There was a time when Tennessee was trying to get foreigners to move here. You see, a lot of former…
It’s hard to imagine Nashville without the Capitol, state office buildings and thousands of state employees — let alone the…
I thought it was a joke when I first heard the phrase. But, as it turns out, generations of Tennessee…
There were 4,510 free African Americans in Tennessee in 1830 — a number that grew to 7,300 by 1860. In…
In January 1950, an announcer and sound engineer for Memphis radio station WREC started a side business that made records…
It can be hard to pin down exactly when a place became a major tourist attraction, but I recently discovered…
Had the Nashville lynch mob succeeded, American history might have turned out differently. There might not have been a “Know-Nothing”…
Many people love Tennessee history. Tennesseans are proud of David Crockett, they visit Shiloh, they boast that the suffrage amendment…
Before our ancestors had cars to go where they pleased, Tennessee’s most popular vacation destinations were mineral springs resorts. Starting…