The Appalachian Trail stretches roughly 2,180 miles from Georgia to Maine. It crosses mountain crests, streams, rivers, dirt roads, Interstate…
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Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
but wins an election and builds his myth In 1825, David Crockett lived in a cabin in West Tennessee in…
Many of Tennessee’s communities were once called something else In my December column, I wrote about towns and cities in…
Immediately after World War II, a pair of nationally publicized riots in Tennessee foreshadowed huge changes that would happen in…
Tennesseans won decisive victory at New Orleans A few years ago, I found a brochure for a New Orleans museum…
A history of Tennessee town name changes and why they occurred By now, many people have heard that the Anderson…
This summer, I researched and wrote four new “Tennessee History for Kids” booklets. In the process, I found some remarkable…
Falcon Rest tours combine hands-on history with entertainment When Charlien McGlothin first set eyes on Falcon Rest nearly 25 years…
During the first six months of this year, a committee assigned by the Tennessee Department of Education wrote a new…
Former slaves who left the South to move north and west in the 1870s were known as Exodusters. Many of…