Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

The story of Holt Collier, the bear guide for President Theodore Roosevelt on his famous 1902 Mississippi hunt.

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

It is always a pleasure for a museum to receive objects that can further explain the story of an artifact already in its collection. Years ago, before the Historical Society had even moved into its ...

The 3rd Tennessee Cavalry, mustered in Knoxville ... Knoxville’s Norman Shaw, a founder of the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable, became interested in the Sultana explosion when he met the daughter of a ...

The Tennessee Army National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment has been selected as one of three National Guard units to ...

After a nearly three-year legal battle, a Tennessee civil rights attorney will no longer be gagged from criticizing a private prison. The local federal court has scrapped a rule that restricted ...

University of Tennessee awards civil rights advocate Rita Geier with an honorary degree. The College of Law presented Geier with the degree, recognizing her legal career, work in the federal ...