The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area was designated in 1996. It is managed by the Middle Tennessee State University Center for Historic Preservation. Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table will be playing host to a special guest speaker, Mr. Thomas Lee Jessee. On September 11, Thomas will be presenting an informative ...
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) – Four historic Middle Tennessee Civil War battlefields are receiving millions of dollars in preservation grants from the Tennessee Historical Commission. According to the ...
Carson-Newman professor David Needs will give a presentation on “A Test of Leadership: How Small-Scale Battles Define the ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Students at the University of Tennessee are unearthing history in the heart of campus. As construction continues on campus, Dr. Kandi Hollenbach led a team of students to ...
This town just southeast of Nashville is well-known for its American Civil War history, but there are plenty of things to do in Murfreesboro TN. Since the 1990s, Murfreesboro has been Tennessee’s ...
The 1886 Tennessee gubernatorial race between brothers Alf and Bob Taylor, known as the War of the Roses, was a remarkably civil campaign. Despite their differing political affiliations, the brothers ...
This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last.
Tennessee Governor William G. Brownlow enfranchised Black citizens after the Civil War, not out of principle but as a political strategy to maintain power. Brownlow's actions, though presented as ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus recently. State law requires excavation any time there is ...