Tennessee
312 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Andrew Jackson and the Hermitage
- Harry Burn and the Deciding Vote
- Oak Ridge and the Secret City
- Sequoyah and the Syllabary
- Shiloh and a Nation Shocked Awake
- Statehood and the Sixteenth State
- The Rivers That Made Tennessee
- The Scopes Trial at Dayton
- The State of Franklin
- The Tennessee Valley Authority
- The Three Grand Divisions
- The Trail of Tears Begins Here
Near Banner Elk
Near Chattanooga
- Bessie Smith, the Empress from East Ninth Street
- Brainerd Mission
- Brainerd Mission
- Chattanooga National Cemetery
- Coca-Cola in a Bottle: One Dollar for All of It
- Dragging Canoe and the Chickamauga Wars
- East Ridge, Tennessee
- Ed Johnson and the Supreme Court That Tried a Sheriff
- Gig City, and the Network Nobody Expected a Municipal Utility to Build
- Hales Bar Dam
- Jasper, Tennessee
- Judge Allison and the Dixie Highway
- Lookout Mountain: The Town That Sits Above the Battle
- Missionary Ridge: The Charge Nobody Ordered
- Moccasin Bend and Twelve Thousand Years of Home
- Moccasin Bend: Twelve Thousand Years on the Tennessee River
- Ross's Landing and the Trail of Tears
- Ruby Falls and the Cave Leo Lambert Found for His Wife
- Ruby Falls: The Underground Waterfall Inside Lookout Mountain
- See Rock City, and Seven Barn Rooftops Worth of Myth
- Soddy-Daisy: Two Coal Towns, One City Name
- Southern Adventist University: Faith, Farms, and Collegedale
- St. Elmo: Lookout Mountain's Gateway Village
- The Battle Above the Clouds
- The Battle Above the Clouds
- The Battles for Chattanooga: Grant Breaks the Siege
- The Chattanooga Choo Choo
- The Chattanooga Choo-Choo: Song, Station, and Second Life
- The Dirtiest City in America, and What Came After
- The Incline Railway and the Steepest Mile in America
- The Walnut Street Bridge
- Water Hoses and a Lawsuit That Changed America
- Wauhatchie: The Night Battle and the Cracker Line
Near Gatlinburg
- Alum Cave: Confederate Pharmacy and High Country Route
- Arrowmont and the Settlement School That Taught a Town
- Arrowmont: How a Women's Fraternity Preserved Appalachian Craft
- Building a Park, Buying Out a People
- Cades Cove and the Cabins That Time Kept
- Cades Cove: A Living Community, Then a Park
- Greenbrier: The Smoky Mountain Valley That Was Erased
- Honeymoon Capital and the Rise of the Strip
- Little Greenbrier School and the Walker Sisters
- Maddron Bald: Old Growth and the CCC Legacy
- Moonshine, from Outlaw Trade to Legal Distillery
- Newfound Gap and the Road the CCC Built
- Ober Gatlinburg, Skiing in the South
- Perry's Camp: Tourism Comes to the Smoky Mountains
- Radford Gatlin, the Man Run Out of His Own Town
- Riding the Air: The Sky Lift and the Space Needle
- Tenth Mountain Division: Southern Sons on Skis
- The 2016 Gatlinburg Fires
- The Cherokee, the Oconaluftee, and the Trail of Tears
- The Great Smoky Arts and Crafts Community
- The Noah Ogle Place: Last Survivor of the Smokies Homesteaders
- The Rockefeller Gift: Five Million Dollars That Finished a Park
- The Sugarlands
- The Sugarlands: A Valley Erased to Make a Park
- Tyson McCarter Place: A Smokies Homestead Frozen in Time
- White Oak Flats and the Place of Paradise
Near Knoxville
- Alcoa, Tennessee: The Company That Built Its Own City
- Blount College to the University of Tennessee
- Cal Johnson: From the Battlefield Dead to the Racetrack
- Campbell's Station: Burnside's Fighting Retreat
- Campbell's Station: The Retreat That Saved Knoxville
- Candoro Marble Works: Pink Stone and the Quarries Beneath Knoxville
- Cas Walker, Dolly Parton, and the Country Radio Cradle
- Concord, Tennessee
- Cormac McCarthy and Suttree's Knoxville
- East Tennessee's Unionists: Bridge Burners and the Siege
- Farragut: Damn the Torpedoes, Born Right Here
- Farragut: Where America's First Admiral Was Born
- Gay Street: Trolleys, Theaters, and the Downtown Spine
- James Agee, Fort Sanders, and the Summer of Nineteen Fifteen
- Knoxville College
- Knoxville College and the HBCU Anchor
- Knoxville to Asheville: The Mountains Begin
- Lindbergh Forest: Knoxville's First Automobile Suburb
- Marble Springs: First Governor, Last Home
- Market Square: Two Centuries of Commerce
- Maryville: Named for a Governor's Wife
- Maurice Mays and the Red Summer of 1919
- Norris, Tennessee: The Town the New Deal Built
- Oak Ridge: The Secret City That Built the Bomb
- Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols
- Sequoyah and the Cherokee Overhill Towns
- The 1960 Lunch-Counter Sit-ins on Gay Street
- The 1982 World's Fair: The Scruffy Little City Did It
- The Bijou's Separate Entrance and What It Meant
- The Calutron Girls of Oak Ridge
- The Tennessee River, the City's Axis
- The TVA's Knoxville: New Deal on the River
- Vine Avenue and the Black Commercial Core
- White's Fort, Blount, and Tennessee's First Capital
- William Blount and the Southwest Territory
Near Lynchburg
- Cave Spring and the Lincoln County Process
- Jasper Newton Daniel, Who Called Himself Jack
- Lem Motlow and the Survival of the Distillery
- Lynchburg and the Whiskey You Cannot Buy Here
- Nathan "Nearest" Green: The Enslaved Man Who Taught Jack Daniel
- Tennessee Whiskey vs. Kentucky Bourbon: A Legal Distinction With an Enslaved Root
- The Dry County Paradox
- The Town Around the Distillery
- Winchester, Tennessee: Seat of Franklin County
Near Pigeon Forge
- Cherokee Homeland and the Trail of Tears
- Dandridge: Named for the First First Lady
- Dinner Shows and the Name That Changed
- Dolly's Imagination Library
- Dollywood and Dolly Parton's Literacy Campaign
- Dollywood, and the Girl From Locust Ridge
- Douglas Dam: Built in Twelve Months to Win a War
- Gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center: Before the Park
- Highlander: The School That Trained Rosa Parks
- Jefferson County: Davy Crockett's Marriage Bond and Tennessee's Second Oldest Town
- Kodak, Tennessee
- Little River Railroad: The Tracks That Cleared the Smokies
- Moonshine, Revenuers, and the Legal Jar
- Septima Clark and the Citizenship Schools
- Sevier County: Gateway to the Smokies
- The Iron Forge That Named a Town
- The Island and the Great Smoky Mountain Wheel
- The Old Mill on the Little Pigeon
- The Parkway: A Farm Town Turned Boomtown
- The Titanic on the Parkway
- The Two Thousand Sixteen Chimney Tops Fire
Along the way
- A Revolutionary War Veteran of Valley Forge
- Affrilachia: The Black Appalachians History Forgot
- Alamo, Tennessee: Named for Davy Crockett's Last Stand
- American Baptist College: The School That Trained the Movement
- American Baptist College: Training Ground for a Revolution
- April 3, 1968: King's Last Night
- Battle of Nashville, December 1864: Black Soldiers at the Decisive Moment
- Beale Street Before Urban Renewal
- Belle Meade: The Farm That Shaped the Thoroughbred
- Belmont Mansion: The Wealthiest Woman and the People Who Built Her Home
- Bicentennial Capitol Mall: Tennessee in Stone and Bell
- Bledsoe County, Tennessee
- Blountville, Tennessee
- Blues Hall of Fame
- Bristol Motor Speedway: Thunder in the Valley
- Burkle Estate, Slave Haven
- Cable Mill and the Cades Cove Economy
- Cardiff: The Company Town That Never Was
- Carnton: Blood and Burial at Franklin
- Carter House: The Battle Came Home
- Castle Heights Military Academy: Where Boys Came to Be Made Into Something
- Cherokee Homeland: Tennessee's Original Name
- Cherokee National Forest and the Trail That Crosses It
- Cherry Mansion: Grant's Headquarters Before the Storm
- Chickasaw and Choctaw: The Trail of Tears Begins Here
- Church of the Assumption: Nashville's German Cathedral
- Church of the Assumption: Nashville's Germantown Parish
- Cleveland, Tennessee
- Clover Bottom: Where the Donelsons Settled and Jackson Came Courting
- Congregation B'nai Israel: A Jewish Community Older Than Jackson Itself
- Cookeville: A County Seat, Twice
- Cornersville: Where Four Counties Meet
- Crab Orchard, Tennessee
- Cumberland Homesteads: The New Deal's Model Village
- David Crockett Birthplace: Born on the Nolichucky
- December 1864: Forrest Returns to Murfreesboro
- Del Rio, Tennessee
- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: The Thing She Actually Did
- Dunbar Cave State Park
- Dunlap Coke Ovens: The Valley's Industrial Age
- Dyer Observatory
- Earnest Farms: Switzerland to the Nolichucky
- Elizabethton: Where the Overmountain Men Mustered
- Elkton: The River Town Built on Flatboats
- Etowah Carnegie Library
- First Horizon Park, Nashville Sounds
- Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1871: Nine People Who Saved a University
- Fisk University and the Jubilee Singers
- Forrest's First Raid: The Battle of Murfreesboro, July 1862
- Forrest's Memphis Raid: Attack Before Breakfast
- Fort Granger, Franklin
- Fort Negley: Built by the People It Was Supposed to Free
- Fort Southwest Point
- Franklin Battlefield: The Pickett's Charge of the West
- Franklin, Tennessee: One Hundred Twenty Years to Recover
- Fraterville: The Letters Left Behind
- General Robert Hatton
- Gibson Guitar: From Kalamazoo to Nashville
- Gibson Guitars: From Kalamazoo to Nashville
- Goodlettsville: Mansker's Station to the Goodlett Family
- Gordonsville: John Gordon's Town on the Cumberland Plateau
- Graceland
- Graceland and the Elvis Economy
- Greene County: First County of the Frontier
- Greeneville: The Tailor Who Became President
- Hadley Park, 1912: The First Public Park for Black Americans
- Harriman: The City Built on Temperance
- Harry T. Burn's Mother's Note: How Tennessee Became the Thirty-Sixth
- Hartford, Tennessee
- Hatch Show Print: One Hundred Forty Years in Two Colors
- Herschel Greer Stadium and the Nashville Sounds
- Hickory Hollow Mall: Rise and Fall of a Tennessee Institution
- Hoover's Gap and the Lightning Brigade
- I AM A MAN: The Trigger Nobody Remembers
- Ida B. Wells and the Statistical Method of Resistance
- Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors
- Jacksboro, Tennessee
- James Lawson: The Workshops Nobody Showed
- Jellico, Tennessee
- Jonesborough: Tennessee's Oldest Town
- Jubilee Hall: Built by Song
- Kimball, Tennessee
- Kingsport: Cherokee River Crossing to Planned Factory City
- Kingston Coal Ash Spill: The Disaster Nobody Saw Coming
- Kingston Springs: Sulfur Water and Healing Claims
- Kingston: Capital for a Day, and the Disaster That Followed
- La Vergne, Tennessee
- Lebanon, Tennessee: Cedar Town and Law School City
- Leiper's Fork: The Village the Trace Built
- Lenoir City, Tennessee
- Lewis County: Named for a Man Who Died on the Trace
- Long Island of the Holston
- Loudon, Tennessee
- Mallory-Neely House
- Manchester, Tennessee
- Marathon Motor Works
- McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House
- McNair's Stand on the Federal Road
- Meharry Medical College
- Memphis Metal Museum
- Memphis Minnie and Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Women the History Books Missed
- Memphis: The Bridge at the River's Edge
- Meriwether Lewis Dies on the Natchez Trace, 1809
- Monteagle: The Chautauqua of the South
- Monument Hill: Andrew Johnson's Final Resting Place
- Mt. Zion CME: The Church Freed People Built in Freedom
- Nashoba: The Utopia That Tried to End Slavery
- Nashville Sounds: Minor League, Major History
- Nashville: How Country Music Became an Industry
- Nashville's 2010 Flood: The Disaster Nobody Covered
- National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
- Naval Air Station Memphis: From Biplanes to the Navy's HR Capital
- Newbern Depot: Cotton, Bricks, and the Last Train Through Dyer County
- Newport: New Port on the French Broad
- Niota, Tennessee
- Nissan Stadium: Tennessee Gets the NFL
- Norris Dam State Park: Where the New Deal Left Its Mark in Stone
- Norris Dam: The New Deal's First Experiment
- Oaklands Mansion: Jefferson Davis Slept Here
- Old Kingsport Presbyterian Church
- Old Stone Fort: A Two-Thousand-Year-Old Mystery Near Manchester
- Overmountain Victory Trail: The March That Changed the War
- Parker's Cross Roads: Forrest Caught from Both Sides
- Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee
- Patsy Cline: The Flight Home, March 5, 1963
- Philadelphia, Tennessee
- Pulaski, Tennessee: Where the Klan Was Born
- Rebel's Rest: Sewanee Rises From Ruin
- Rhea Springs: The Resort That Lies Under Watts Bar Lake
- Rhodes College: From Clarksville to the Supreme Court
- Roane County Courthouse: A Union County in a Confederate State
- Rockwood: The Iron Town Built by a Civil War General
- Rocky Top, Tennessee
- Rutherford County Courthouse
- Sergeant Alvin York: The Reluctant Hero
- Sewart Air Force Base
- Smyrna, Tennessee
- South Cumberland State Park
- Spring Hill: The Saturn Experiment
- Stax Museum of American Soul Music
- Stax Records: The Integrated South
- Stones River: The Battle That Saved the Emancipation Proclamation
- Sullivan County: The Overmountain Men and the Twin Cities
- Sulphur Dell: Nashville's Impossible Ballpark
- Sulphur Dell: The Strangest Ballpark in America
- Sun Studio and the Million Dollar Quartet
- Swaggerty Blockhouse: A Frontier Mystery in Timber
- Tennessee Brewery, Memphis
- Tennessee State University
- Tennessee Suffrage, August 18, 1920: The Thirty-Sixth State
- Tennessee Technological University
- The April Two Thousand Six Tornado
- The Grand Ole Opry, 1925: How a Radio Signal Built a Genre
- The Great Migration: Highway 51 North
- The Hermitage: Andrew Jackson's Cotton Kingdom
- The Hermitage: Jackson's Democracy and Jackson's Enslaved
- The Hotel Halbrook: A Railroad Hotel and a Governor's Birthplace
- The Kingston Coal Ash Spill
- The Nashville Sit-Ins: Diane Nash and the Architecture of the Movement
- The Parthenon: Democracy's Monument in a Slave-Holding City
- The Ryman's Second Life: From Gospel Tabernacle to Mother Church
- The Scopes Trial Courthouse: Dayton's Summer of Argument
- The Tellico Dam and the Overhill Towns Under Water
- The World's Longest Yard Sale
- Thompson's Station: Revolution, Wilderness, and War
- Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site
- Tulip Grove: The President's Secretary Built Next Door
- TVA and Norris Dam: Electricity at the Price of a Valley
- Unicoi, Tennessee
- Union City: The Name Came From the Crossroads
- W.C. Handy and the Day Blues Entered Sheet Music
- White House: Named for a Tavern on the Old Kentucky Road
- Whitehaven, Memphis
- WSM and the Clear-Channel Signal: How Nashville Became Music City