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Jeanette Horne always thought she was the last in her family, but after doing an Ancestry.com test, she not only found extended family members but also learned about the turn-of-the-20th-century ...

The Hermitage in Nashville is the former plantation of Andrew Jackson. Antony-22 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the United ...

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. — Black History Month is a time for people to honor and focus attention on African Americans who made contributions and sacrifices that helped shape the nation. East Tennessee has ...

"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...