Here's what's new on the page --

1) A trip through the Stones River battlefield

We toured, hiked and shivered our way through the fields and cedar thickets near Murfreesboro on the 147th anniversary of the battle in which nearly 24,000 men were killed or wounded. Click here to see what we learned.
2) Remembering Lieutenant Governor Wilder

The founder of Tennessee History for Kids recalls his time with the unique man who presided over the Tennessee State Senate for 36 years. Click here to read it.
2) An ESL version of our web page

Click here to check out the BRAND-NEW ESL version of Tennessee History for Kids -- specially made for settings where teachers have to teach the English language AND things about Tennessee and America.

PHOTO: TN State Library and Archives
4) An incredible photo essay!

Featuring pictures from the Tennessee State Library and Archives' TeVA collection

Click here to see these great photographs from rural Tennessee in the 1930s and 1940s

PLUS...

5) Our videos are back up

-- all 19 of them!

Click here to see them using Quicktime, Windows Media Player or YouTube

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.
IMAGE: The Hermitage
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.

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