A Library Too Big to Ban
Book bans at public institutions have been on the rise in recent years. Since Fall 2021, PEN America has tracked over 10,000 book bans in public schools across the country.…
Author: Caroline Carrico
Looking Back at the Strategic Foresight Workshops
“I just got a call that the museum’s roof is leaking.” “That’s great! Now you’ve got something to rally donors!” This exchange is not what you would expect to overhear…
Unveiling a New Chapter in Robertson County
In February 2024, the Robertson County History Museum opened a new permanent exhibit titled African Americans Building New Lives After 1865. This exhibit, which Humanities Tennessee partially funded through an…
Dunbar Cave State Park: Exploring Equitable Futures
Dunbar Cave State Park, located on 144 acres in Clarksville, Tennessee, is a state natural area that includes an eight-mile-long cave with spiritual, historical, archeological, natural, and geological significance. Visitors…
Strengthening Tennessee’s Cultural Fabric: Capital Improvement Grants for Museums
In Fiscal Year 2023-2024, the State of Tennessee entrusted the Tennessee State Museum with $5 million to distribute as capital improvement grants to museums across the state. According to Tammi…
Rethinking Historic House Interpretation at Cragfont
Cragfont State Historic Site in Sumner County is a historic house museum managed by Historic Castalian Springs. Between 1798-1802, General James Winchester had this Federal, Georgian style mansion constructed on…
Kidizenship and the Future of Civics Education
What would you do if you realized your children did not have a nuanced understanding of what democracy is and how it works? Amanda Little, a journalist and Writer-in-Residence at…
Preserving Rosenwald Schools Legacies Through Traveling Exhibits
In the early twentieth century, Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Booker T. Washington, the president of the Tuskegee Institute, and Black communities throughout 15 southern states…
Generative AI and The Public Humanities
Humanities Tennessee’s Shared Futures Lab is exploring what the future could hold for humanities programs and organizations. In addition to looking at our past and current programming, we’re searching for…
Sharing the Untold Story of Tennessee’s Enslaved Iron Workers
Human enslavement in the American South prior to the Civil War is well-documented as a brutal system of extracted and uncompensated labor. When most of us consider enslavement in Tennessee,…