On Monday, March 6, 1848, people walked around Nashville, excitedly blurting out the same sentence. “Did you hear that the…
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One hundred ten years ago, three companies battled Mother Nature and labor disputes to pioneer hydropower in the Tennessee Valley…
In Tennessee, each town used to determine its own time Exactly what time did the Battle of Shiloh begin? What…
There are 31 words in the Pledge of Allegiance — only one of which comes up in no other sentence…
Changes in gear and rules have done a lot to make the sport safer I interrupt this football season for…
Trains picked up where the riverboats left off, making important hubs out of four Tennessee towns Tennessee has four principal…
Thousands of smaller waterways served early settlers not just in hydration but in navigation, industry and town planning There’s a…
Tennessee history proves that laws about who votes and how they’re allowed to can affect us far into the future…
Tennessee has many ghost towns — abandoned because they were once owned by a coal company, because the railroad replaced…
The name forgotten from when Tennessee became a state 225 years ago It’s a celebration 225 years in the making.…