Tennessee History for Kids wants to come to your part of the state

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"Tennessee's Lost Historic Treasures" poster

Featuring photographs of the original Cossitt Library, the Polk Place Mansion in Nashville, the Lenoir Cotton Mill, the Bradley County Courthouse, the old University of Tennessee Law School, and more.

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Photo: TN Photographic Services
A Student's Guide to the Tennessee Senate

A free civics publication produced through a partnership with the Senate Clerk's office

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Fight against such terrible odds

The booklet for grades five and eleven -- covering the period from the Civil War until the present time

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Bloody Ground, Our Ground

The booklet for grades four and eight -- covering the period from the beginning of recorded history until the Civil War

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150th anniversary of Tennessee's bloodiest battle

At the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, 24,000 Americans were killed, missing or wounded. Click here for a virtual tour of the battlefield; here for strange and interesting stories from the battle; and here (page 1) and here (page 2) to read what Tennessee Governor Isham Harris saw and experienced there.

Nashville from the Capitol, during the Civil War
Photo: TN State Library and Archives
150th anniversary of the "Great Panic"

Click here to read about the evacuation of Nashville that followed the Union capture of Fort Donelson in February 1862 -- and the raising of the first "Old Glory" flag in American history

200 years since the New Madrid Earthquakes

Click here to read about the 1,874 quakes that terrified people throughout America and created Reelfoot Lake