Here are five interesting news stories in the world of Tennessee history that didn’t make it in our regular features.…
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Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
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…
Three years ago, I wrote about recent changes to the social studies standards that increased what students were supposed to…
Fort Blount found after more than 200 years The first week of May 1797 was an interesting time to be…
Reflecting on life for Tennessee pioneers Authors and columnists have a tendency to write about famous battles and famous people.…