Last summer, Elizabeth Merritt – the founding director of the American Alliance of Museums’ Center for the Future of Museums – created a special Tennessee edition of Dispatches from the…
Over the past year, Humanities Tennessee’s Shared Futures Lab has focused on strategic foresight – the systematic process of scanning for changes on the margins before they become major forces…
In Response to Federal Cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million Emergency Funding for Humanities Councils, including up to $250,000 for HUMANITIES TENNESSEE This investment…
This spring, two Neighborhood Story Project (NSP) teams are engaging in place-based research to ask questions and uncover answers about their Tennessee communities. Dr. Amie Thurber created the NSP framework…
How do we anticipate what could happen in the future? With so much vying for our attention, what do we focus on? What is important and what is merely noise?…
The Neighborhood Story Project (NSP) is a place-based research project that brings together neighbors to gather research, share stories, and have an active voice in the future of their home…
Monic Ductan, Rachel Louise Martin and Denton Loving honored with first-ever statewide literary awards Humanities Tennessee announced the winners of the first-ever Tennessee Book Awards. Monic Ductan won in the fiction…
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.…
“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…
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…
