Here is historian Nicole Hemmer at CNN: It was mid-November 1927 when, at a Tennessee courthouse wrapped in patriotic decor to celebrate Armistice Day, a White mob seized a Black teenager named Henry Choate and hanged him from the building’s balcony. The...
Maury Nicely is a lawyer specializing in employment litigation, labor law, and general business litigation at Evans Harrison Hackett, PLLC. This interview is based on his new book, Forging a New South: The Life of General John T. Wilder (University...
Over at The Washington Post, historians Ansley Quiros and Anthony Siracusa connect the recent removal of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson from the Tennessee legislature to the early civil rights movement in Nashville. Here is a taste of their piece:...
Over at Religion News Service, writer David Dark introduces us to the Nashville “Prayer Trade.” Here are some of the things I learned (or was reminded of) from the piece: Michael W. Smith, Ricky Skaggs, and Steven Curtis Chapman were...
We wrote about Tennessee governor Bill Lee’s relationship with Hillsdale last month. We have also offered a few posts reviewing the 1776 Commission, a Trump-supported group tasked with creating a patriotic-oriented curriculum. Hillsdale president Larry Arnn led the commission and...
In November 2020, then president Donald Trump announced his 1776 Commission, a commission charged with delivering a conservative alternative to The New York Times 1619 Project. There were no American historians on the commission, but there was plenty of room...
Franklin, Tennessee has the highest per-capita income in the entire state. The median income is $75,871. The city is located about 20 miles south of Nashville. According to Wikipedia, it is the home of NFL quarterback C.J. Beathard, governor Bill...
I went shopping with my family on Saturday. My daughter needed to buy some things for her new apartment so we jumped in the car and headed east on the Pennsylvania turnpike. We started at IKEA in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania and...
Earlier this week I wrote a post on the Tennessee Historical Commission’s 24-1 vote to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville. Some members of the Tennessee General Assembly oppose this decision....
For the record, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate Army general and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Now here is a taste of Kyle Horan’s story at NewsChannel 5 in Nashville: Not even two weeks after...
