Events and News
31st Annual Nashville Conference on African-American History and Culture
Friday, February 10—8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Tennessee State University
Avon Williams Campus
10th and Charlotte, downtown
The Nashville Conference on African-American History and Culture returns for its 31st year on Friday, February 10, 2012. The conference program will celebrate the Centennial of Tennessee State University. For more information, visit www.nashville.gov/mhc/conference.asp
Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposium
Mark your calendar and plan to join the Metropolitan Historical Commission for the second Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposium on Saturday, February 18, 2012. The event will take place at Fisk University, in the Little Theater, located on Dr. D. B. Todd Boulevard, near Jackson Street.
The Little Theater was built as a Union Army barracks, and was one of the first structures used by Fisk University as it began after the Civil War. This most fitting place will host the event.
8:30 AM: Opening remarks will be made by Mayor Karl Dean, MHC Director Tim Walker, and Dr. Reavis Mitchell, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Fisk University.
9:00 AM: Tim Smith, formerly with Shiloh National Battlefield Park and now with U. T. Martin, will speak on the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson.
9:45 AM: Break
10:00 AM: Dr. Carole Bucy, professor at Volunteer State Community College and Davidson County Historian, will then speak on The Great Panic, a period of great turmoil in the city following the fall of the two forts protecting the approach to the city.
10:45 AM: Break
11:00 AM: The 1861 Project, a musical production of songs inspired by the Civil War, brought to us by Thomm Jutz. Learn more by visiting http://1861project.com.