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Alvin York, war hero
PHOTO: Library of Congress
Think history is boring? If so, we're going to prove you wrong.

This is the hodgepodge section of Tennessee History for Kids; the part of the page where we throw together anecdotes, features, and speeches that come up in various grades.

We'll tell you the story of the Donelson Party, which left East Tennessee in the dead of winter in 1779 to settle Nashville, facing hardships and hostile Native Americans such as Dragging Canoe all the way.
Re-enactors at the Tennessee History Festival
We'll tell you why Tennessean Alvin York became one of the great American war heroes... one of many from the state so full of heroes that it became known as the Volunteer State.

We'll tell you what it was like to take a journey on a flatboat. We'll tell you about dueling.

We'll tell you the saga of Joseph Brown, a boy who saw his entire family slaughtered by Chickamaugans and who later led a war party back to get revenge.
Fisk University graduates
PHOTO: Fisk University
Ever wondered about the stories behind the universities of Tennessee, Fisk, and Vanderbilt? We've got 'em here. And click here to read about how hard it was to raise money for and build the first railroad aross the state of Tennessee.
An ad in a 1946 Saturday Evening Post
And you'll never guess where the most famous cup of coffee in American history was ever consumed.