In 1850, about one in five Tennesseans was held against his or her will, forced to live as a slave.…
Browsing: History
Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
This is my 120th column. I’ve written about the Civil War, the civil rights movement, Andrew Jackson, Elvis Presley, the…
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…