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Humanities Tennessee is pleased to partner with the Nashville Public Library and Parnasssus Books for a conversation between General Colin Powell and Jon Meacham. The event will take place Wednesday, May 30, at 7:00 p.m. at the Massey Auditorium at Belmont University. It is a free event, and the event is sold out.

Though the event is sold out, we have two tickets available via random drawing.

Click here to enter the contest!

Deadline to enter is  Monday, May 21st, 9am (CDT).  

The Way We Worked, the seventh Smithsonian traveling exhibit sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, arrived in Jamestown on Saturday, April 28th for the final stop along its tour of Tennessee.

According to one local resident, "I haven't seen the community come together over a project like this in a very long time. It’s exciting, energizing, and gives me hope for what the future may have in store."

As part of a yearlong project devoted to the work of painter Thomas Hart Benton, Doris King's art students at Clarkrange High School trained to become docents for a travelling exhibit King brought to the school as part of her 2011 Award of Recognition for Outstanding Teaching of the Humanities. Over 900 students and adults from the town saw the exhibit during its stay at Clarkrange. And like the best museum educators, King's classes surveyed their audience to gauge the effect of their work. According to King, "Only 32% of students at the high school level have ever been to an art museum. Most students knew about the Great Depression, but had no idea it influenced the production of art. Very few recognized art could or should be used to study history."

We are so grateful to Ruta Sepetys and the students and teachers from G.W. Carver High School in Memphis and Westview High School in Martin for making April's Student Reader Day events a great success.

Sissy Spacek - My Extraordinary, Ordinary Life

This event is part of Salon @615, a series and partnership among Nashville Public Library, Humanities Tennessee, the Nashville Public Library Foundation, and Parnassus Books, which will be the on-site bookseller for the events.

Chris Cleave – Gold - His debut novel (Incendiary) won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, and won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction award in 2005. His second novel Little Bee is a New York Times #1 Best Seller. He is also a journalist with The Guardian.

This event is part of Salon @615, an author reading series held at the main branch of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street. The series is a partnership among Nashville Public Library, Humanities Tennessee, the Nashville Public Library Foundation, and Parnassus Books, which will be the on-site bookseller for the events.

Richard Ford – Canada 

Author of seven novels, and four short story collections, Ford is often compared to John Updike, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway.

This event is part of Salon @615, an author reading series held at the main branch of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street. The series is a partnership among Nashville Public Library, Humanities Tennessee, the Nashville Public Library Foundation, and Parnassus Books, which will be the on-site bookseller for the events.

After two months of reading and two rounds of judging the winners of this year's Letters About Literature contest have been selected. Congratulations! And the winners are...

Join residents of Cowan, TN, in exploring the history and evolution of work in Franklin and surrounding counties through an exhibition, The Way We Worked, that uses local artifacts to tell the stories of agriculture, transportation, and industry around the area, and the significance of sweeping occupational changes over time.

Visit now through April 21.