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

Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The ...

A new mural now hangs on the east side of 235 W. State St. The mural, commissioned by Jacksonville Main Street and placed on ...

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

Following the battle reenactment and later in the evening, beginning at 7 p.m. on Saturday, the 52nd Regimental String Band, out of Memphis, Tennessee, will play music from the Civil War time ...

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 ...