This story starts with a groundhog and ends with a mountain goat. In 1845, Thomas Wooten owned a small farm…
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Charles Coolidge of Signal Mountain recently received quite a bit of publicity, and deservedly so. Tennessee’s last living World War…
I talk to many knowledgeable people about Tennessee history. Perhaps no fact astonishes them more than the following: Joint Base…
What you thought you knew about Tennessee’s caves, rivers, borders and more Although Tennessee History for Kids’ focus is history…
If you look it up, you will find that there have been somewhere in the range of 40 treaties between…
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…
A history of Tennessee town name changes and why they occurred By now, many people have heard that the Anderson…
This summer, I researched and wrote four new “Tennessee History for Kids” booklets. In the process, I found some remarkable…
Former slaves who left the South to move north and west in the 1870s were known as Exodusters. Many of…