Before our ancestors had cars to go where they pleased, Tennessee’s most popular vacation destinations were mineral springs resorts. Starting…
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.
The history world makes a big deal of anniversaries such as the centennial of the passing of the suffrage amendment…
From a column originally penned for “Comet Earthquake and Fire Canoe” — Tennessee History for Kids’ new fourth-grade reading booklet.…
If you Google the words “mail hack,” you’ll be bombarded with information about how people can sabotage your email service.…
There are abandoned iron furnaces — limestone monoliths ranging from 30 to 50 feet tall that cause passersby to stop…
For the first time since 2006, this column will be something other than history. I was an officer in the…
I interrupt this nonexistent gubernatorial campaign for the following historical tidbit: It hasn’t always been like this. Before radio and…
I’d like to devote this, my 200th column, to an interesting example of why even the best of columns can…
I recently set out to trace the history of the acre on which my house sits — back to its…
When early settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains, they left behind the Atlantic Ocean watershed for a land where every river…