To the degree there is a consensus, it is agreed that Tennessee's first lawyer was probably Luke Bowyer, who was present in that area of North Carolina that was to become the State of Tennessee in the 1770s. Bowyer was the attorney for the Wautauga Association, and signed off on a petition to Provincial Congress in the Tarheel State in 1776.

David N. Shearon, the first and only executive director of the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization, resigned effective Oct. 31. He held the position since the commission's inception in 1987. He leaves to pursue his work in positive psychology, which over the past five years he has pursued through...

On Thursday, Nov. 18, the Tennessee General Assembly will convene on Capitol Hill in Nashville for its 41st session. No, not that General Assembly. The old geezers don't come back to Nashville until January. I'm talking about the baby legislators, or the future legislators of Tennessee. The group that convenes in Nashville in November

is the...

Here is yet one more book about a famous chapter from the history of our American West. In the April 2009 issue of the Journal I declared James Donovan's A Terrible Glory (2008) to be "the last word." But you need to read this new volume.

Why was the Last Stand a disaster? Three reasons convince me that the Seventh Calvary had...