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New Acquisitions | Summer of 2020

This story also appears in our Summer 2020 Quarterly Newsletter. The Museum continually adds artifacts of significance to Tennessee history, art and culture to its collection. What follows are artifacts added to the collection prior to the publishing of our Summer 2020 Quarterly Newsletter. If you follow us on social media, you will note that this summer we also added new artifacts connected to Robert Churchwell, the first Black journalist hired by a major southern newspaper,... Read More
Posted by Mary Skinner at 9-23-20
Museum Collection Newsletter-Summer 2020

From the Summer Institute: Three Events That Defined Ida B. Wells' Fight for Social Justice

By Jennifer Watts As a member of the education team at the Tennessee State Museum, I get the opportunity each summer to work with teachers all over the state on professional development. We offer insight on Tennessee history and help teachers better engage with core curriculum. This year, as part of our summer institute, I presented a class on Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the journalist, Civil Rights pioneer and suffragist who began her career in Memphis. The class focused on three stories from Wel... Read More
Posted by Joseph Pagetta at 9-18-20
#WomanSuffrage civil rights Ida B Wells Women's History

Engaging Younger Audiences Online

This story also appears in our Summer 2020 Quarterly Newsletter. This spring, the Museum launched TSM Kids, a new portal on our website created to help school-aged children learn Tennessee history in a fun and engaging way, while building their literacy and critical thinking skills. All of the resources listed below can be accessed via the portal. Junior Curators Do you have a child who is naturally inquisitive and loves history or art? Then they might make great junior curators. Pa... Read More
Posted by Mary Skinner at 9-16-20
#TSMKids Newsletter-Summer 2020 Social Studies Practice 001

Book Excerpt: 'Voyage of the Adventure' by John Guider

Voyage of the Adventure: Retracing the Donelson Party’s Journey to the Founding of Nashville, out this week from Vanderbilt University Press, tells the story of how, in the winter of 1779, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee to lead a flotilla of settlers over one thousand river miles away to the area now known as Nashville. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson ... Read More
Posted by Joseph Pagetta at 9-11-20

About the 19th Amendment Woman Suffrage Bronze Bas-relief by Alan LeQuire

This story also appears in our Summer 2020 Quarterly Newsletter. by Mary Skinner When the 75th anniversary of women’s suffrage was celebrated across the nation in 1995, the pivotal role that Tennessee played in the passing of the 19th Amendment coincided with another important celebration — the Tennessee Bicentennial. While 1996 officially marked Tennessee’s bicentennial of becoming a U.S. state, several public events and projects concurred to commemorate both of thes... Read More
Posted by Mary Skinner at 9-6-20
#19th Amendment #tnwoman100 #WomanSuffrage Women's History

Meet Our Museum Store Artisans

This story also appears in our Summer 2020 Quarterly Newsletter. Many of our artisans have been sheltering in their studios creating merchandise for the Museum store. Discover a few of their stories and learn more about their products. Bybella – Handcrafted Artisan Jewelry Nashville native Diane Thomas is a silver smith and jewelry designer who creates beautiful hand-forged jewelry for a cause: sheltering and educating homeless and orphaned children and street survivors. &nbs... Read More
Posted by Mary Skinner at 9-2-20
Artisans Museum Store Newsletter Newsletter-Summer 2020

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