It is the strangest item in the Tennessee Historical Society’s collection. The Tennessee Museum puts it on display once a…
Browsing: History
Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
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.…
The story behind historic War Department letter When you start researching the story behind a single document, you never know…
To the best of my knowledge, it is the only permanently flooded structure quite like it in Tennessee. However, few…
Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Tennessee — 6,643 feet above sea level. I suspect that most of the…
In a story that involves Tennessee’s colonial and Native American history, a proposal to deed 76 acres of Tellico Lake…
Some places are recognized for the important and interesting events that occurred there. Then there is Nickajack Cave in Marion…