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…
Category: Shared Futures Lab
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…
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,…
TAM Scholarships Empower Tennessee Museums
Each March, the Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM) hosts a statewide conference where museum professionals can share ideas, network, and explore museums across the state. Humanities Tennessee has offered scholarships…
Clement Railroad Hotel Museum: Giving Voice to Dickson County’s Women
The Clement Railroad Hotel Museum (CRHM) in Downtown Dickson, Tennessee, tells the stories of Dickson County, with a special emphasis on the life and legacy of Tennessee Governor Frank G.…
Future of Museums: Playful Exercise Sparks Serious Questions
The Tennessee Association of Museums held its annual conference March 19-21, 2024, in Murfreesboro. Using giant sticky notes, felt tipped markers, and colored dots, HT’s Shared Futures Lab invited participants…
Tennessee History Day & the Next Generation of Citizens
When you step into a History Day contest, the nervous excitement is palpable. Middle and high school students bustle around exhibit boards. Others pace the hallway waiting for their turn…