I was recently driving through Smith County on Highway 70 when I did a double take. I pulled over, turned…
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.
In the heart of picturesque downtown Asheville, North Carolina, you will find a statue of a Tennessee-bred hog. Not a…
Tennessee likes to boast about old structures it has preserved and historical markers it has erected — especially when it…
I have to admit that I find many biographies hard to wade through — especially those written in scholarly style…
“Since evolution proves that all animals progress towards a better species, and since humans are members of the animal kingdom,…
Tennessee towns didn’t just “happen.” They were founded by investors who pooled their money, sent surveyors to find the most…
I’ve never written as much as I have during the past 18 months. Tennessee has adopted new social studies standards…
Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796. Today, when students read this fact in the history books, it seems…
On July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis delivered a crate to a tiny island in the South Pacific called Tinian.…
During my decade and a half of writing content for the Tennessee History for Kids website, I’ve come across many…