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Biography

The Man Behind Tennessee Whiskey

  • Business
  • Food
  • Slavery
  • Civil War & Reconstruction, 1860-1890
Man rolling whiskey barrels through a production floor
Uncle Nearest is the best whiskey maker that I know of. . . . I want [Daniel] to become the world's best whiskey distiller—if he wants to be.
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation
Present to Past

Education for All

  • Slavery
Photograph of Boat in the Marshes of St. Simon’s Island
Historic Event

The Water Spirit Will Take Us Home

  • Slavery
Historic map of Philadelphia
Biography

Crossing the Color Line to Freedom

  • Slavery