I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m tired of hearing and reading about things that divide us. In fact,…
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’ve written 175 of these columns, half a dozen books, 1,500 pages of Tennessee History for Kids booklets and more…
I’ve come to believe that the oversimplified version of history told in textbooks and on historical markers is less interesting…
The more I research Tennessee history, the more I find that granite markers and books can mislead. I live near…
Before he was famous, he helped organize Lawrence County. Before becoming president, he was a runaway indentured servant with a…
As Tennesseans prepare to celebrate the centennial of Tennessee’s critical passage of the suffrage amendment, they often don’t realize that…
There’s been a lot of wrangling about what to do with the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee’s State…
Was it an experiment in socialism, an example of what the federal government could do to help people in Tennessee…
They are extinct institutions that used to be part of our culture and will always be a part of our…
The first time I met Abraham Lincoln was at a history festival in Nashville in 2005. In the years since,…