Interview with civil rights icon Bobby Cain reveals fascinating details I’ve known about Bobby Cain for some time. I’ve known…
Author: Bill Carey
Tennessee has 95 counties. Each has a seat: a town, usually near the middle, where county government is based in…
Parents love to take their kids to play in the fountains at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in Nashville. I’m…
Here are five interesting news stories in the world of Tennessee history that didn’t make it in our regular features.…
If you scan the 1903 map of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway system, the name “Hollow Rock” jumps…
I recently learned that the tiny family cemetery near my office in suburbia is the final resting place of a…
The Volunteer State was affected indirectly but felt the effects for a very long time Last month, on the 100th…
Photographs courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives One hundred years ago, the United States entered World War I…
It is the strangest item in the Tennessee Historical Society’s collection. The Tennessee Museum puts it on display once a…
The members of the mob were all hooded and armed. One of them tied a rope around the neck of…