Knoxville History Project Open House
The Knoxville History Project (KPH) invites you to an open house. You’ve heard about Underground Knoxville, the part of town covered up by the 1919 Gay Street Viaduct project; drop…
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Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million Emergency Funding
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…
Unveiling a New Chapter in Robertson County
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…
General Grant Award Recipients Announced
This August, Humanities Tennessee awarded 13 general grants totaling $99,531 to cultural organizations in all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee. Individually and collectively, these projects expand the stories of our…
Defending DEI: Addressing Anti-Blackness and Systemic Racism in Rural West TN
Join regional partners at Lane College for a day of discussions and activities featuring scholars and practitioners covering topics such as civic engagement & voting, public health & families, the…
Panel Discussion (hybrid): Black Women of Print
UT’s Downtown Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of new triptychs by Black Women of Print featuring work by Deborah Grayson, Karen J. Revis, Stephanie Santana, LaToya Hobbs, Althea Murphy-Price,…
Dunbar Cave State Park: Exploring Equitable Futures
Dunbar Cave State Park, located on 144 acres in Clarksville, Tennessee, is a state natural area that includes an eight-mile-long cave with spiritual, historical, archeological, natural, and geological significance. Visitors…
Preserving Rosenwald Schools Legacies Through Traveling Exhibits
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…
Sharing the Untold Story of Tennessee’s Enslaved Iron Workers
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,…
Clement Railroad Hotel Museum: Giving Voice to Dickson County’s Women
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.…