This month is the 50th anniversary of the opening of Opryland USA, a theme park that was an important part…
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.
I’m happy to say that Americans aren’t used to seeing soldiers, tanks and warplanes unless they happen to live near…
On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana was heading upstream on the Mississippi River, carrying more than 2,000 Union Army…
If you read this column regularly, you might remember that in September 2014, I started off with my opinion that…
On Monday, March 6, 1848, people walked around Nashville, excitedly blurting out the same sentence. “Did you hear that the…
One hundred ten years ago, three companies battled Mother Nature and labor disputes to pioneer hydropower in the Tennessee Valley…
In Tennessee, each town used to determine its own time Exactly what time did the Battle of Shiloh begin? What…
There are 31 words in the Pledge of Allegiance — only one of which comes up in no other sentence…
Changes in gear and rules have done a lot to make the sport safer I interrupt this football season for…
Trains picked up where the riverboats left off, making important hubs out of four Tennessee towns Tennessee has four principal…