1) THE PRINT EDITION!!!

For the first time, Tennessee History for Kids has created a BOOKLET. Click here to find how you can obtain them.

2) A new design!!!!

Anyone else notice that the Tennessee History for Kids web site looks different than it used to?

3) A trip to Philadelphia, PA

And that means a tour of Independence Hall, Congress Hall, the Liberty Bell, and more!

Click here to check it out.

3) The Carmack shooting, Doctor Woman, and the General who rode up to the wrong troops

New Tennessee magazine columns from History Bill. Click here to read about the Carmack shooting; here to read about Doctor Woman; here to read about Hattie Caraway; and here to read about the fate of General Zollicoffer

4) A virtual tour of Norris Dam and the area around it

The government project that changed Tennessee and its culture forever. Click here to check it out.

Welcome to Tennessee History for Kids -- which is changing the way K through 12 students learn about the Volunteer State. Four years after we started, more than 5,000 classrooms are using our website, videos, posters, brochures and columns to learn Tennessee history, civics and geography.

So whether you are a student, teacher, librarian, parent, or just an interested citizen, check out the web page making a difference from Mountain City to Memphis.

Try the grade-specific pages across the top of the page. There are seven main grades where state-specific things come up in the social studies curriculum -- those being grades 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11 and 12. If you click on these grades you will find grade specific textbooks written by Tennessee history, civics and geography experts with the state's curriculum in mind.

Down the left column you'll find a series of "Nav Bars" that are used in different classes, depending on how the teacher wants to do it.

If you click on PEOPLE you'll find short biographies of important people in Tennessee history.

Under CIVICS you will find a three part section on how Tennessee government works -- from beginner ("What Government Does," for example) to advanced ("What do Capitol Hill reporters do?")

Then you'll find the two-part GEOGRAPHY section, which tells you about the incredible terrain and river systems of the Volunteer State.

The VIRTUAL TOURS take you on detailed on-line trips to about 50 of the most important places in Tennessee history -- from The Hermitage to the National Civil Rights Museum.

And the interactive quiz button takes you to a test you can take over and over -- and each time you take it you'll get a different group of questions!

There are 95 counties in Tennessee, and we have created a separate page for each of them that tells you AT LEAST two interesting stories about that county. Click here to see those.

Click here to see more detailed history pages of Tennessee's larger cities.

If you would like to find out where to find information about a particular subject, click here for the Tennessee History for Kids INDEX.