Hosted by Big John Summers · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 24 episodes
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A long-form, research-driven podcast exploring the people, places, and stories that shaped Tennessee history—one county, one legend, one narrative at a time.
Big John Summers hosts The Tennessee History Nerd, a history show with 24 episodes published.
It's INTERVIEWSDAY! For this Interviewsday edition (Interview Tuesday) of The Tennessee History Nerd, I had the opportunity to sit down with Justin Reed, longtime radio personality, host of The Justin Reed Show, and poss
Benton County. To many travelers, it's simply the place where Interstate 40 crosses the Tennessee River on the way between Nashville and Memphis. But Benton County has been shaped by that river for more than two centurie
As a companion to Episode 8, I had the opportunity to sit down on-site at Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park with Keith Wimberley, the park manager. Keith brings a unique perspective to the story of Old Stone Fort—
Mud Island. To most people crossing the Hernando De Soto Bridge, it looks like an island sitting quietly beside downtown Memphis. But Mud Island has never been simple. It began as a sandbar and mudflat created by the shi
It's INTERVIEWSDAY (Interview Tuesday)! As part of the research for Episode 12 – A Pearl of a Story, I had the opportunity back in February 2026 to sit down with Bob Keast at the Tennessee River Freshwater Pearl Museum a
Bedford County is a county of crossroads. Formed in 1807 from the southern portion of Rutherford County and named for Revolutionary War veteran and early Tennessee pioneer Thomas Bedford, the county sits at the intersect
It's Interviewsday! On Tuesdays, as I am able and have interview inventory to release, I'm trying to share some of the interviews that we've done previously. This week, we're opening up one of our Patreon interviews for
The State of Franklin. For four years, it existed in a place somewhere between a territory, a rebellion, and a nation. It had a governor. It had a legislature. It had courts. It levied taxes. It raised a militia. It nego
Director, Sequoyah Birthplace Museum In this companion interview to Episode 5, The Talking Leaves, we go beyond the narrative and into the details with Charlie Rhodarmer, director of the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Von
Anderson County has reinvented itself again and again. Founded in 1801 and named for U.S. Senator Joseph Anderson, the county began as part of Tennessee's frontier landscape of ridges, valleys, rivers, and scattered sett
We're making this interview, which previously required a Patreon subscription to be able to access, available to the general public now--no subscription required. For Ep 7 - The Iron Men, I had the opportunity to sit dow
Freshwater pearls may not be the first thing that comes to mind when people think about Tennessee history…but for decades, Tennessee rivers were at the center of one of the most unusual industries in America. Long before
Division. Before there was Horseshoe Bend…there was a nation tearing itself apart. In the years leading up to the Creek War, the Muscogee Confederacy found itself divided over one question that would reshape the future o
For a few terrible hours in April of 1865, the Mississippi River became the setting for one of the greatest disasters in American history. The Civil War was ending. Thousands of Union soldiers, recently freed from Confed
For a time, the quiet waters of Reelfoot Lake reflected more than cypress trees, flooded timber, and West Tennessee sky. They reflected fear. In the early 1900s, conflict over land, access, ownership, and outside control
Old Stone Fort has stood on this bluff above the Duck River for nearly two thousand years. Massive walls of stone and earth stretch across a natural peninsula, enclosing nearly fifty acres. To early settlers, it looked u
The 1899 University of the South (Sewanee) Tigers football team is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of college athletics. In a single six-day stretch, this team traveled by train across the South and def
There are moments in history that become larger than life—reduced to a single phrase, a single decision, a single flash of action. “Damn the torpedoes.” But behind that moment is a life shaped long before Mobile Bay. In
Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith with no formal education, created a written language for his people—transforming a primarily oral culture into a literate society in less than a generation. In this episode of The Tenness
In the years after the Civil War, freedom had come—but stability had not. In Nashville, a small group of students at Fisk University faced an uncertain future. Their school was struggling. Resources were scarce. The path
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