http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sitemason Content Management System http://www.sitemason.com/ http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/rss/set/10 15 heritage@mtsu.edu (Jennifer Butt) "'We Are As Grand As We Want To Be' African American Mutual Aid Groups in Murfreesboro" Community Heritage Lecture Thursday, February 16th, 7:00 p.m. Bradley Academy 415 South Academy Street, Murfreesboro In celebration of Murfreesboro's Bicentennial "Our People" month, The Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County and Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center are partnering together to present "We Are As Grand As We Want To Be": African American Mutual Aid Groups in Murfreesboro. The free community heritage lecture on Thursday, February 16th at 7:00 p.m. will be held at Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center (http://bradleymuseum.com [http://bradleymuseum.com/]), 415 South Academy Street, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Leigh Ann Gardner, a Master of Arts student in the Public History program at Middle Tennessee State University and a graduate assistant at the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, will discuss her research on the Benevolent Society and Cemetery, Working Peoples Labor and Aid Association, the Sons and Daughters of Cyrene, and the Grand Courts of Calanthe. http://www.sitemason.com/files/iPpmOk/Benevolent%20Cemetery%20Rutherford%20Co.JPG/main.jpg http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/02/16/feb-16-african-american-mutual-aid-groups-in-murfreesboro-lecture.316182 http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/02/16/feb-16-african-american-mutual-aid-groups-in-murfreesboro-lecture.316182 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:00:00 CST Events War of 1812 Bicentennial Symposium "Tennessee, the Atlantic World, and the War of 1812" Saturday, March 17, 2012 Nashville Public Library Auditorium 615 Church Street, Nashville Sponsored by the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University, the Tennessee Historical Society [http://www.tennesseehistory.org], the Tennessee State Museum [http://www.tnmuseum.org], and Special Collections at the Nashville Public Library [http://www.library.nashville.org/] Friday, March 16, 2012 Exhibit Opening, "Becoming the Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812." Tennessee State Museum Saturday, March 17, 2012 Nashville Public Library Auditorium 9-9:45 Registration 9:45-10:00 Welcome Dr. Carroll Van West, MTSU Center for Historic Preservation Ann Toplovich, Tennessee Historical Society 10:00-10:45 "Indian Country in 1812: The Life and Times of the Southern Indians on the Eve of the War of 1812." Dr. Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi 10:45-11:30 "Andrew Jackson's Bolivar: Tennesseans Embrace Latin American Independence" Dr. Caitlin Fitz, Northwestern University 11:30-1:00 Lunch on your own 1:00-1:45 Keynote Address: "Why Is the War of 1812 Important" Dr. Donald Hickey, Wayne State College 1:45-2:30 "Tennessee and the War of 1812" Dr. Kristofer Ray, Austin Peay State University 2:30-3:30 Panel Discussion 3:30 Conclusion Speakers Dr. Don Hickey holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and is a professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska. A specialist in early American history and American military history, Hickey has taught at Wayne State since 1978, although he has held concurrent visiting appointments at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (1991-92) and the Naval War College (1995-96). He is the author of five books and more than fifty articles, including The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (1989), The War of 1812: A Short History (1995), and Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 (2006). Dr. Robbie Ethridge is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. In addition to writing several articles and book chapters on the ethnohistory of the Indians of the American South, she is the author of Creek Country: The Creek Country and Their World, 1796-1816, with the University of North Carolina Press (2003), and she is the co-editor, along with Charles Hudson, of the volume The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, published by the University Press of Mississippi (2002). She also co-edited with Thomas J. Pluckhahn Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians (2006) published by the University of Alabama Press. Her latest co-edited volume is Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (2009) co-edited with Sherri Shuck-Hall, published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her latest monograph is entitled From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 (2010) published by the University of North Carolina Press. She is currently working on a long-term project on the rise and fall of the Mississippian world. Dr. Caitlin Fitz (Ph.D., 2010, Yale University) is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. She is a historian of early America, in a broad and hemispheric sense. Her work explores early U.S. engagement with foreign communities and cultures, as well as the relationship between ordinary people and formal politics. Her current manuscript, Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions, reveals how the early nineteenth century Latin American independence movements shaped popular understandings of race, revolution, and republicanism within the United States. Fitz has also written about U.S. citizens in insurgent Brazil (The Americas, 2008), Iroquois communities during the U.S. revolution (Journal of the Early Republic, 2008), and antislavery activists in Tennessee (Civil War History, 2006). She has conducted archival research in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English, and she has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She received her Ph.D. in 2010 from Yale, where her dissertation received the George Washington Egleston Prize in American History. Dr. Kristofer Ray (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2003) is an assistant professor of history at Austin Peay State University and serves as the Senior Editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Dr. Ray's research interests lie in early North American identity formation, political culture and economic development. His most recent book, Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier, was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2007. http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/03/17/march-17-tennessees-war-of-1812-symposium.221021 http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/03/17/march-17-tennessees-war-of-1812-symposium.221021 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CDT Events heritage@mtsu.edu (Jennifer Butt) "Wish You Were Here: Historic Postcards of Murfreesboro" Exhibit Opening Tuesday, March 27th, 4:30 p.m. Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County 225 West College Street, Murfreesboro In celebration of Murfreesboro's Bicentennial, The Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County is pleased to present Wish You Were Here: Historic Postcards of Murfreesboro. Sara Beth Gideon, exhibit curator and graduate assistant at the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, will make remarks at the exhibit opening on March 27th at 4:30. The exhibit, developed from postcards donated by noted historian Ridley Wills II, will be on display at the Heritage Center through October 2012. http://www.sitemason.com/files/j4YqjK/Aerial%20View%20of%20Business%20Section.jpg/main.jpg http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/03/27/march-27-historic-postcards-of-murfreesboro-exhibit-opening.321168 http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/03/27/march-27-historic-postcards-of-murfreesboro-exhibit-opening.321168 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CDT Events margedavis@comcast.net (Marge Davis) Scenic Tennessee's 2011-2012 Photo Contest "Living Legacies: Capturing the Scenic Beauty of Tennessee's Civil War Heritage" Submission deadline: April 1, 2012 In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, Scenic Tennessee's 18th annual (now biennial) photo contest commemorates Tennessee's distinctive Civil War sites and landscapes. Scenic Tennessee, in partnership with the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, invites submissions to "Living Legacies: Capturing the Scenic Beauty of Tennessee's Civil War Heritage." Since 1989, Scenic Tennessee has worked to protect, honor and enhance all of Tennessee's scenic assets, including those that convey its history and heritage. The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area's mission is to tell the whole story of America's greatest challenge, 1860-1875, through historic sites across the state, such as farms, buildings, cemeteries and monuments. The Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University administers the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, which is a partnership unit of the National Park Service. This partnership-based effort preserves, enhances and interprets the legacy of the Civil War and its aftermath across the state. The "Living Legacies" photo contest has three goals: (1) To commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the American Civil War across the state of Tennessee. (2) To use photography to tell Tennessee's full Civil War story, by capturing its military, home front, occupation and emancipation landscapes. (3) To showcase the photographer's art in framing, interpreting and deepening our understanding of those places and times. The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area partners with the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development and the Tennessee Department of Transportation to implement the statewide Tennessee Civil War Trails marker and signage program. Contest entrants are encouraged to use the Trails marker program as a guide to find numerous subjects across the state, including historic landscapes, period buildings and architecture, monuments and final resting places. Go to www.civilwartrails.org [http://www.civilwartrails.org] to follow the Trail throughout the state. An online brochure outlining the categories and submission guidelines can be accessed at www.scenictennessee.org [http://www.scenictennessee.org]; click on Photo Contest. The contest ends April 1st, 2012, with the winning photographs exhibited at The Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County (www.hcmrc.org [http://www.hcmrc.org]) from June through August 2012. The winning photographs exhibit will then travel to other places across the state. For further information about the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, go to www.tncivilwar.org [http://www.tncivilwar.org]. http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/04/01/april-1-scenic-tennessees-photo-contest-deadline.197363 http://www.mtsuhistpres.org/calendar/2012/04/01/april-1-scenic-tennessees-photo-contest-deadline.197363 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CDT Events