You might have seen him out there — tromping through the woods in his reflective vest, armed with nothing more…
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.
When it comes to history, politicians and generals get all the glory, but no one gives credit to the engineers.…
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…