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  • TN Writers | TN Stories: Dr. Mark Cheathem

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The presidential election of 1844 had it all: an unpopular incumbent forced out of the race, a perennial presidential loser, a candidate whose career appeared to be on life support,…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories: Ciona Rouse

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    Poet, editor, and educator Ciona Rouse is the author of Vantablack, the first chapbook of Third Man Books (2017). Her poetry has appeared in the journals Oxford American, Wildness, Booth, The Account, Still, Talking River, Gabby Journal, Matter: a journal of political…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories: Aime Alley Card

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black women's track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome. The author tells a story…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories: Betsy T. Phillips

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    On September 10, 1957, Hattie Cotton Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, blew up. On March 16, 1958, the Jewish Community Center was bombed. On April 19, 1960, the home of…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories: Sara Koffi

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    Parasite meets Such a Fun Age in a scorching debut that is as heartbreaking as it is thrilling, examining the intersection of race, class, and female friendship, and the devastating consequences of everyday…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories: Katie Seigenthaler (editor), Amy Frogge (editor), and Rachel Hester, Charles Strobel – The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home (Vanderbilt University Press) in conversation with Kay West

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    *THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT* As Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and advocate for the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last…

  • National Trail of Tears Association: 27th Annual Conference

    Embassey Suites 2321 Lifestyle Way, Chattanooga, United States

    Humanities Tennessee’s Shared Futures Lab (SFL) is pleased to announce our partnership with the National Trail of Tears Association (ToTA) and Tennessee Chapter to offer scholarships to attend the National Trail of Tears…

  • TN Folklife Institute

    The Tennessee Arts Commission Folklife Program, in partnership with Humanities Tennessee, presents the Tennessee Folklife Institute, an immersive training workshop designed to encourage and increase the documentation, preservation, and presentation of our…

  • TN Association of Museums Conference

    Crowne Plaza Hotel 401 W. Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, tennessee, United States

    "Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it, you'll never make it through the night."                           General Leia Organa, Star Wars: Episode VIII-The Last Jedi General…

  • Tennessee History Day

    The 2025 state contest will be held Saturday, April 5th in Nashville for students who qualified at their regional contests and were advanced by their coordinators. Good luck to all!…

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    TN Writers | TN Stories with Keith Wood

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History examines Memphis’s symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional…

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    TN Writers | TN Stories with John P. Williams

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The name Montgomery Bell is well known to residents of Davidson County and the greater middle Tennessee region. Montgomery Bell State Park is located in Dickson County, forty minutes west…

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    [POSTPONED] TN Writers | TN Stories with Charlie Peacock

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    In this artful memoir, Roots and Rhythm, Grammy Award–winning music producer Charlie Peacock flexes his literary chops and gives readers the gritty backstage stories they crave: biographical anecdotes, geeky trivia,…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories with Jennifer C. Core and Janet S. Hasson

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    Jennifer Core and Janet Hasson’s study of samplers—embroideries that are “first attempts at a new technique, color combination, or unusual material”—provides vivid descriptions of this nineteenth-century Tennessee art form in…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories with Serina Gilbert and Learotha Williams

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The Promise Land community, a small village west of Nashville, Tennessee was founded after the Civil War by people who had been enslaved at the Cumberland Iron Furnace. These early…

  • EVENT CANCELED: An Evening with Senator Joe Manchin and Brad Paisley

    Commodore Ballroom at Vanderbilt University 310 25th Avenue South, Nashville

    PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CANCELED.PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED TICKETS WILL BE REFUNDED. Every ticket includes a pre-signed copy of Joe Manchin's Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense. (Please note there will…

  • Film Screening: Leap of Faith

    Nashville Public Library Donelson Branch 2714 Old Lebanon Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, United States

    Join us for the first program in our new series Beyond the Divide, presented by Millions of Conversations and hosted by Nashville Public Library. Beyond the Divide is an eight-part series presented…

  • Pre-Festival Writing Classes

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    Kick off your Southern Festival of Books weekend with The Porch on Friday, October 17. You'll have the unique opportunity to learn from celebrated authors as they pass through Nashville…

    $51 – $60

  • An Evening with Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, moderated by Ann Patchett

    Schermerhorn Symphony Center One Symphony Place, Nashville, TN, United States

    Join two titans of storytelling– Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Reese Witherspoon and #1 global suspense phenomenon Harlan Coben – for a special event in partnership with Humanities Tennessee and…

  • Film Screening: 36 Seconds

    Bordeaux Branch Nashville Public Library 4000 Clarksville Pike, Nashville, TN, United States

    Join us for the second program in our new series Beyond the Divide, presented by Millions of Conversations and hosted by Nashville Public Library. Beyond the Divide is an eight-part series presented…

    Free

  • The Harvest Screening

    The Ned 314 E Main St, Jackson, Tennessee, United States

    Community members are invited to attend a special screening of the PBS American Experience documentary The Harvest on Saturday, November 1, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at The Ned,…

    Free