I’ve come to believe that the oversimplified version of history told in textbooks and on historical markers is less interesting…
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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…
They are extinct institutions that used to be part of our culture and will always be a part of our…
The first time I met Abraham Lincoln was at a history festival in Nashville in 2005. In the years since,…
I was recently driving through Smith County on Highway 70 when I did a double take. I pulled over, turned…
In the heart of picturesque downtown Asheville, North Carolina, you will find a statue of a Tennessee-bred hog. Not a…