Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

Law said many researchers examine the war through a military lens, overlooking the black history that surfaces ... MTSU has partnered with the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area and ...

So before we get to the Civil War sites, you should probably have a general understanding of why Franklin is so significant in the history of the Civil War. First of all: Tennessee.

and the first shots of the Civil War were fired. North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee then joined the Confederacy, according to History.com.

"An enslaved man leaves a plantation, serves during the Civil War with ... by America's complicated history. A headstone now marks Sandy Wills' grave at the West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery.

That it's not black history, it is American history." To read more about other Civil War trail makers in Tennessee and in other states, visit their website. Two individuals with family ties to ...

For several weeks, all eyes have been on Tennessee. After the horrific shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, hundreds of protesters gathered at the Tennessee Capitol.

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

(WATE) — Students at the University of Tennessee are unearthing history in the heart of campus ... found a section of a previously known Civil War trench located next to the museum.