Partner Programs
In Conversation: Sharon Cameron and Ruta Sepetys
Facebook Event TN, United StatesThis event is co-hosted by Kingsport Public Library and Elizabethton Public Library as part of our TSLA partner series. Sharon Cameron is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel "The Light in Hidden Places," which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Her debut novel The Dark Unwinding was awarded the Society of Children's Book…
Tennessee Waters Exhibit – Farragut
Municipal Center Farragut, TN, United StatesThe city of Farragut will host Tennessee Waters at the Municipal Center. Learn more at: https://www.farragutparksandrec.org/historicresources
People, Parks and Water
Municipal Center Farragut, TN, United StatesJoin the Farragut Museum for the exhibit, Tennessee Waters, and to welcome Hobart Akin, Chief Interpreter for TN State parks, for a lecture/discussion: People, Parks and Water. The talk will explore the origins of TN's park system and its relationship to water resources, recreation and conservation.
Tennessee 101: TN Women in the Progressive Era, Part 1
VirtualJoin the TN Historical Society for a virtual series featuring a variety of scholars discussing topics related to the impact of women on Tennessee in the early 20th century. Registration will be available at: https://tennesseehistory.org/home/programs/ The project is supported in part through Humanities Tennessee's General Grant program.
Postponed — TN Writers/TN Stories: Marissa Moss
TN State Museum 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN, United StatesJoin us for our first TN Writers | TN Stories with Marissa R. Moss, Her Country (Henry Holt) in conversation with Jewly Hight, WNXP editorial director and NPR music reporter. Our new book series, in partnership with Humanities Tennessee, Chapter 16 and Vanderbilt University Press, begins with a reading by music journalist Marissa R. Moss of Her Country and a discussion with Jewly Hight, WNXP editorial…
TN Writers/TN Stories: Leigh Ann Gardner
TN State Museum 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN, United StatesAs part of our book series and Juneteenth programming, Leigh Ann Gardner reads from To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead: African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee, before joining journalist, author and historian, and board member of the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Genealogical Society, Natalie Bell, in discussion. Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince…
Teaching TN History Workshop: Trail of Tears
TN, United StatesThe East TN Historical Society will host history teachers to study the people and events of the Trail of Tears, and explore best practices for bringing this history to the classroom. Site visits include New Echota, Chief Van House, Red Clay, and the Hiawassee Heritage Center. This teachers' institute is partially supported through Humanities TN's…
TN Writers/TN Stories: Rachel Martin
TN State Museum 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN, United StatesAustralia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year. The James Beard Foundation has given Prince’s Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for inventing the dish. But for almost seventy years, hot chicken was made and sold primarily in Nashville’s Black neighborhoods—and the story…
TN Writers/TN Stories: Jeff Zentner
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAAs part of our programming for our exhibition, Painting the Smokies: Art, Community, and the Making of a National Park, Zentner reads from his award-winning young adult novel, In the Wild Light. Life in small-town Tennessee has never been easy. Cash already lost his mother to an opioid addiction and is losing his papaw, who raised him, one…
TN Writers/TN Stories presents Mary Ellen Pethel
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAIn Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers, Mary Ellen Pethel introduces readers to past and present pioneers—each instrumental to the success of women’s athletics across the state of Tennessee and the nation.