This is my 120th column. I’ve written about the Civil War, the civil rights movement, Andrew Jackson, Elvis Presley, the…
Browsing: History
Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
I have heard that one of the best early maps of Tennessee was produced by Matthew Rhea in 1832. So…
This story starts with a groundhog and ends with a mountain goat. In 1845, Thomas Wooten owned a small farm…
The government of Memphis wants to dig up Nathan Bedford Forrest’s remains and move them to Elmwood Cemetery, which is…
Charles Coolidge of Signal Mountain recently received quite a bit of publicity, and deservedly so. Tennessee’s last living World War…
A century ago, on July 31, 1915, a group of Arkansas militiamen raided a camp of bootleggers and other lawbreakers…
Most people do not know that there were prisoner-of-war camps in Tennessee during World War II. They were at Camp…
I have been doing this column for more than nine years, and this is the first time I have written…
I recently read that Tennessee Temple University of Chattanooga was closing after 69 years in operation. Tennessee Temple is merging…
I am not an expert on Memphis history. But I know someone who is. His name is Jimmy Ogle. He…