Tennessee History Day & the Next Generation of Citizens
When you step into a History Day contest, the nervous excitement is palpable. Middle and high school students bustle around exhibit boards. Others pace the hallway waiting for their turn…
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United We Stand: Racial Reconciliation in West TN
This United We Stand livestream will explore Tennessee’s collective imagination as a tool shaping a safer, more just civic life in which all Tennesseans belong, including the evolving roles played…
HT Welcomes New Board Members
This January, HT welcomed seven new board members to its all-volunteer leadership team. With these additions, the HT board now has representatives from every planning and economic development district in…
The 36th Annual Southern Festival of Books
This fall, Humanities Tennessee will welcome more than 175 authors and 25,000 visitors to Nashville for the 36th annual Southern Festival of Books. The family-friendly weekend festival will be held…
Authors in the Round 2024
We hope you will join us for Authors in the Round, a special event dinner that provides vital funding for the 36th annual Southern Festival of Books. Your participation in the dinner…
The Place of Memory: An RPW Center-Sponsored Festival Track
Humanities Tennessee, the Southern Festival of Books, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities have partnered for many years to present a themed track of author sessions at…
TN Writers | TN Stories and Festival Event with Margaret Renkl
In The Comfort of Crows, New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a…
Festival Event: John Scalzi at Parnassus Books
Humanities Tennessee and Parnassus Books are pleased to present an evening with John Scalzi as he discusses his new book, Starter Villain, as part of the 35th annual Southern Festival of Books.…
Festival Event: Erica Waters at Parnassus Books
Humanities Tennessee and Parnassus Books are pleased to present an evening with Erica Waters as she discusses her new YA novel, All That Consumes Us, as part of the 35th annual Southern…
Festival Event: Terrance Hayes at Tennessee State University
Terrance Hayes is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry. He is the author of American Sonnets for My Past And Future…