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3-11-22

Tennessee State Museum a Stop on Women’s Sports History Tour

This year, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX in 1972, Nashville Sites has released a driving tour focusing on women’s sports history across the Volunteer state. Funded and sponsored by the Metro Historical Commission Foundation, Nashville Sites's tour looks at women’s athletics both before and after the passage of Title IX, which prohibited sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives funding from the federal... Read More
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This Is War: World War I Battlefield Replica Keeps Tennessee Military Memory Alive

By Lisa Budreau, Ph.D. This article appears in the Winter 2022 Issue of the Tennessee State Museum Quarterly newsletter. As visitors enter the Military Branch of the Tennessee State Museum at War Memorial Building, a bronze plaque near the entrance serves as a reminder that without the dedicated efforts of state librarian and historian, John T. Moore, and his veteran friend, Captain George Wellington Beerworth, the Museum’s 20th century military collection mig... Read More
Posted by Melina Ludwig at 3-2-22
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