From humble beginnings as a family still in the Kentucky bluegrass, Jim Beam has evolved into the world’s best-selling bourbon—the...

After christening the new year with a hard-fought victory at Stones River, the Federal war effort in Middle Tennessee stalled during the...

With a combined distance of nearly 95 miles, the Silver Comet and Chief Ladiga Trails follow the former Seaboard Railroad’s...

When Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant assumed command of all Federal armies in March 1864, he endeavored to strategize a cohesive war...

The socioeconomic programs of Reconstruction stimulated extensive infrastructural development within the former Confederate states....

The scientific innovations conceived during the Second Industrial Revolution stimulated technological advancements in transportation,...

In February 1807, Virginia-born planter John Harding and his wife, Susannah Shute, purchased a 250-acre homestead seven miles south of...

Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee, between 1846 and 1850—period archival records were destroyed in an...

The Georgia Piedmont underwent significant geoeconomic transformations during the mid-19th century. Profound population growth,...

Mosquito Inlet—first charted in April 1513 by Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon—was a relatively uninhabited estuary during the...