Thousands of smaller waterways served early settlers not just in hydration but in navigation, industry and town planning There’s a…
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.
Tennessee history proves that laws about who votes and how they’re allowed to can affect us far into the future…
Tennessee has many ghost towns — abandoned because they were once owned by a coal company, because the railroad replaced…
The name forgotten from when Tennessee became a state 225 years ago It’s a celebration 225 years in the making.…
Now that the 100th anniversaries of World War I and the influenza epidemic have passed, I thought it might be…
What if we renamed Tennessee’s counties to better reflect what they’re known for? Find your county and see if you…
All smirking aside — when Tennessee first paved its highways, the most controversial stretch of road in the state connected…
Justin “Jet” Potter rose to be one of the richest men in Tennessee in the 1950s. He was also so…
The best newspaper clippings in Tennessee history didn’t announce monumental events. They contain comments about day-to-day occurences that give us…
Tennessee has always been a patriotic state. Therefore, it stands to reason that there are many places in Tennessee named…