Millions of Americans have followed in the steps of the Little River Lumber Company without realizing it. Before the national…
Browsing: History
Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
In my view, the influenza epidemic of 1918 is the most overlooked event in American history. It killed up to…
In November 1925, a new employee of the National Life & Accident Insurance Co. drove his “trick lizzie,” as he…
I spent a good part of last summer and fall searching for old photographs to be included in the Tennessee…
If you look it up, you will find that there have been somewhere in the range of 40 treaties between…
The Appalachian Trail stretches roughly 2,180 miles from Georgia to Maine. It crosses mountain crests, streams, rivers, dirt roads, Interstate…
… but wins an election and builds his myth In 1825, David Crockett lived in a cabin in West Tennessee…
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…