During my decade and a half of writing content for the Tennessee History for Kids website, I’ve come across many…
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.
Women couldn’t vote in America until 1920. These two unlikely partners helped the 19th Amendment along. In July 1920, Tennessee…
It was the South’s most desperate battle — and is the South’s least-remembered. In December 1864, what was left of…
In the early decades of American history, Tennessee was regarded as the West. But for some people, it wasn’t west…
The real story of why Tennessee rewrote its sacred document in 1870 There aren’t many Tennessee laws that address social…
A historical look at the changes in our mobility Before the airplane, car, railroad and steamboat, there was the stagecoach.…
Public schools to teach a semester of Tennessee history in fifth grade Nearly two years ago, I wrote a column…
A literal paper trail pieces together a dark chapter in our history and reminds us never to repeat it again.…
In this, my 150th column, I thought I would talk about caves. Tennessee has more caves than any other state.…
There is talk about moving the remains of James K. Polk and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Although I don’t want to…