Partner Programs
TN Writers/TN Stories presents Yasmine Ali
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAA gripping and meticulously crafted work of narrative nonfiction, Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America (on-sale February 21, 2023) reconstructs the events of a horrific explosion in 1978 that…
Tennessee History Day Competition
Tennessee History Day is the state level contest for National History Day. Students from across Tennessee come to Nashville to showcase the exhibits, performances, websites, papers, and documentary films they…
TN Writers/TN Stories presents Elizabeth Elkins and Scott Williams
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAJoin us as we explore biographies — each with a unique approach — of two legendary Tennessee figures, David Crockett and Timothy Demonbreun. In We Should Soon Become Respectable: Nashville's Own…
Abraham Verghese at Parnassus Books
Parnassus Books, in partnership with Humanities TN, is pleased to present an evening with Abraham Verghese as he discusses his new book, The Covenenant of Water. This is a ticketed event…
Ruta Sepetys: You: The Story: A Writer’s Guide to Craft Through Memory
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAYou: The Story is a powerful how-to book for aspiring writers that encourages you to look inward and excavate your own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling…
Rachel Louise Martin, A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAIn graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One day, she was sent to a small town in Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachians, where…
Carrie Tipton: From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAThe first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top zeroes in on the US South, where college football has forged…
TN Writers | TN Stories: Dr. Mark Cheathem
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAThe 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, USAPoet, 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, USAThe 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…