Here’s a story about some World War II Tennessee heroes you may not have heard: When Japan invaded the Philippines…
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Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
Work continues to honor the volunteers of the War of 1812 and preserve Camp Blount’s mustering site When several thousand…
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m tired of hearing and reading about things that divide us. In fact,…
I’ve written 175 of these columns, half a dozen books, 1,500 pages of Tennessee History for Kids booklets and more…
I’ve come to believe that the oversimplified version of history told in textbooks and on historical markers is less interesting…
The more I research Tennessee history, the more I find that granite markers and books can mislead. I live near…
Before he was famous, he helped organize Lawrence County. Before becoming president, he was a runaway indentured servant with a…
As Tennesseans prepare to celebrate the centennial of Tennessee’s critical passage of the suffrage amendment, they often don’t realize that…
There’s been a lot of wrangling about what to do with the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee’s State…
Was it an experiment in socialism, an example of what the federal government could do to help people in Tennessee…