In Fiscal Year 2023-2024, the State of Tennessee entrusted the Tennessee State Museum with $5 million to distribute as capital improvement grants to museums across the state. According to Tammi…
Humanities Tennessee today announced the initial lineup of award-winning, bestselling authors who will headline the 36th Annual Southern Festival of Books, taking place at Bicentennial Mall, the Tennessee State Museum…
Cragfont State Historic Site in Sumner County is a historic house museum managed by Historic Castalian Springs. Between 1798-1802, General James Winchester had this Federal, Georgian style mansion constructed on…
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…
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…
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…
Humanities Tennessee is thrilled to announce that the 36th annual Southern Festival of Books will return to Bicentennial Mall, Tennessee State Museum, and Tennessee State Library and Archives on…
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,…
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…
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.…
