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Tracking Change: Historian Bill Carey

By Bill Carey These railroad engineers altered the Tennessee map   When it comes to history, politicians and generals get all the glory, but no one gives...

Tennessee’s Long History of Debating the ‘Bachelor Tax’ by Bill Carey

By Bill Carey I thought it was a joke when I first heard the phrase. But, as it turns out, generations of Tennessee lawmakers —...

Bill Carey ‘The History Guy’ A Look Back at Tennessee 200...

*Originally posted in The Tennessee Magazine By Bill Carey The history world makes a big deal of anniversaries such as the centennial of the passing of...

The Mail Hack by Bill Carey

*This story originally posted in the TnMagazine.com  Once part of Tennessee culture, these mail carriers linked our communities together the old-fashioned way. By Bill Carey January...

Eight things that make Andrew Johnson a fascinating person by Bill...

By Bill Carey We in Tennessee talk more about Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk than we do Andrew Johnson. Therefore, I’ve come up with...

The Vanishing Remains of the First Road across the Plateau

The Vanishing Remains of the First Road across the Plateau By Bill Carey October 2019 Interstate 40 winds below Spencer’s Rock,...

Do You Know Rutherford County History? Datsun, Confederates, Murfreesboro was the...

By Bill Cary (Posted with permission from tnhistoryforkids.org) Rutherford County Nissan's groundbreaking PHOTO: TN State Library & Archives Let's talk about something big that happened in Rutherford County, followed...

Tennessee History for Kids Revises Its Booklets to Meet New Standards

  By Bill Carey, the Tennessee History Guy Tennessee History Lesson I’ve never written as much as I have during the past 18 months. Tennessee has adopted new...

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