Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796. Today, when students read this fact in the history books, it seems…
Browsing: History
Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
On July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis delivered a crate to a tiny island in the South Pacific called Tinian.…
During my decade and a half of writing content for the Tennessee History for Kids website, I’ve come across many…
Women couldn’t vote in America until 1920. These two unlikely partners helped the 19th Amendment along. In July 1920, Tennessee…
It was the South’s most desperate battle — and is the South’s least-remembered. In December 1864, what was left of…
In the early decades of American history, Tennessee was regarded as the West. But for some people, it wasn’t west…
The real story of why Tennessee rewrote its sacred document in 1870 There aren’t many Tennessee laws that address social…
A historical look at the changes in our mobility Before the airplane, car, railroad and steamboat, there was the stagecoach.…
The Tennessee Magazine’s Travel Guide 2018 Across the state, Tennessee’s state parks, museums and historic sites mark the migration of…
Public schools to teach a semester of Tennessee history in fifth grade Nearly two years ago, I wrote a column…