Born in 1839, he was baptized the same year at a Presbyterian church southeast of Nashville in Smyrna, Tennessee. After he turned 21 in 1861, Weakley enlisted in the 20th Tennessee Infantry ...

Initial Union attempts to storm the nearby Confederate capital ... By September 1861, this goal expanded to other rivers as ...

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President Trump makes no secret of his admiration of Old Hickory. Jackson’s portrait hung there during Trump’s first presidency (a loaner from the U.S. Naval Academy). President Joe Biden replaced it ...

Our church ordained him while he was on death row and then helped him start a church, The Church of Life, on Tennessee’s death row. Proponents of capital punishment will tell you executions are ...

reverberated throughout the rotunda of the state Capitol last week as a small crowd honored the 15 enslaved people who were forced to help construct the Tennessee State Capitol. Fifteen enslaved ...

Tennessee lawmakers for the first time honored the work of 15 enslaved men rented by the State of Tennessee in the 1800s to build the State Capitol.

Once I caught my breath, I asked myself, “Why, after a five-year hiatus, has the state of Tennessee decided to resume state sanctioned killings?” Proponents of capital punishment will tell you ...

BERWYN, Pa., March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PPR Capital Management (PPR), a private equity real estate investment firm, announced the acquisition of Highline at Knoxville, a newly constructed ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, a division of the Tennessee Historical Commission, is responsible for administering grants through the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund.