Tennessee Talks
thsadmin2022-07-25T16:26:20-06:00Join us for Tennessee Talks, a new online discussion group for Tennessee Historical Society members, led by Davidson County historian Dr. Carole S. Bucy. [...]
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07, 2022
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07, 2022
Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South
thsadmin2022-09-14T10:34:29-06:00Country and soul emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. [...]
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07, 2022
Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong and the Black String Band Tradition
thsadmin2022-07-26T14:21:19-06:00String band and country blues musician Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong’s life spanned most of the 20th century. Armstrong’s career took him from his boyhood [...]
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07, 2022
Musica sin Fronteras (Music without Borders)
thsadmin2022-07-26T14:22:37-06:00In this session, we learn about the history and genres of Mexican music performed in Tennessee. Dr. Gregory Reish is director of the Center [...]
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07, 2022
Hip Hop in Bluff City: The Roots of Memphis Hip Hop with DJ Spanish Fly
thsadmin2022-08-10T08:30:25-06:00Hip hop originated in The Bronx, but found its way to Tennessee by the mid-1980s. DJ Spanish Fly, the Godfather of Memphis Rap, has [...]
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05, 2022
2022 Annual Membership Virtual Meeting
thsadmin2022-06-09T09:45:16-06:00We invite you to register for the 173rd Annual Membership Meeting, when we will vote on the officers and directors for 2022–23. Following our [...]
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12, 2021
Shifting Perceptions
thsadmin2022-02-23T12:18:15-06:00As attitudes about women’s roles in the public sphere evolved, society itself began to transform. “Transforming Space and Culture in Tennessee’s Town Squares: The [...]
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12, 2021
Writing Suffrage
thsadmin2022-06-09T12:55:10-06:00What was written about the suffragists and what did they write about themselves? “Suffrage in Tennessee Hometown Newspapers” Dr. Melony Shemberger is Associate Professor [...]
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12, 2021
Righteous Voice
thsadmin2022-02-09T13:39:05-06:00Women of the late 1800s and early 1900s spoke their truth to their detriment and often to their intense ridicule. “African American Women Educators [...]
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12, 2021
Old Nashville
thsadmin2022-02-02T09:46:25-06:00Nashville boasted scores of women’s clubs, some of which are still active. “Nashville Clubwomen in the Progressive Era: More than the UDC” Dr. John [...]
