It's been more than a decade since I published the first blog post on The Posterity Project way back in 2008. What began as an exper...

Earlier today, I had the opportunity to explore the new Tennessee State Museum during its ribbon cutting ceremony and grand opening on the ...

In his 1886 book,  The Wilderness Road , Thomas Speed remarked on the surge of settlers who descended upon the trans-Appalachian frontier an...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an edited excerpt from John Sevier: Tennessee's First Hero  supplemented by additional research comp...

On the second of June 1769, a company of about twenty men from North Carolina and Virginia gathered at Powell’s Valley—a majestic oasis nes...

On June 1, 1796, Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state, the first state created from territory that had been under federal j...