Humanities in Action: Building a Better Future
Humanities in Action: Building a Better Future is a podcast about the work being done today to create a more empathetic and connected future. Through interviews and researched stories, we'll share Tennesseans' visions for the future and the programs, decisions, and choices they are making today to bring those futures to life.
Episodes
Welcome to the final episode of our special series, Curating Tennessee: 1776-2076. In this episode, Humanities Tennessee's Paul McCoy & Melissa Davis turn the tables on series host Caroline Carrico to talk about the digital exhibit she curated from the objects discussed in the past 11 episodes.
Curating Tennessee: 1776 - 2076 , the digital exhibit, is available now. We invite you to explore the questions these objects raise abo...
In this episode, which is part of our special series Curating Tennessee: 1776-2076, we're joined by Liza Blair, a curator and museum specialist at Chattanooga State Community College and the curator of Humanities Tennessee's upcoming exhibit What If? Exploring the Future of Crafting and Growing. The exhibit opens August 8, 2026, at the Museum and Cultural Center at 5ive Points in Cleveland, Tennessee.
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This episode is part of By th...
In our previous episode, Madeline Greene, the Curator of Collections and Education at the Museum & Cultural Center at Five Points in Cleveland, Tennessee, talked about ways Americans have taken care of each other. In this short bonus episode, you’ll hear about an artifact she thinks America’s Founders couldn’t have envisioned.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, a series of communit...
In this episode of our special series Curating Tennessee: 1776-2076, we're joined by Madeline Greene, the Curator of Collections and Education at the Museum & Cultural Center at Five Points in Cleveland, Tennessee.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Fede...
In our previous episode, Patrick Hollis, the executive director and curator at Mabry-Hazen House in Knoxville, Tennessee, talked about everyday objects that open discussions about the lived experiences of all the historic house’s past residents. In this short bonus episode, you’ll hear his ideas about what would flabbergast America’s revolutionaries.--
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250...
In this episode of our special series Curating Tennessee: 1776-2076, we're joined by Patrick Hollis, the Executive Director and Curator at Mabry-Hazen House in Knoxville, Tennessee.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Federation of State Humanities Councils a...
In our previous episode, Erin Medley and Aubrey Michaels from Red Clay State Park in Cleveland, Tennessee, discussed how they utilize their park’s landscape and programming to create a more perfect union. In this short bonus episode, you’ll hear them discuss a museum interactive America’s founding fathers couldn’t have imagined.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, a series of comm...
In this episode of our special series Curating Tennessee: 1776-2076, we're joined by Erin Medley, the Park Manager at Red Clay State Park in Cleveland, Tennessee, and Aubrey Michaels, one of the park’s interpretive rangers.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by th...
In our previous episode, you heard Tonya Staggs, the Executive Director of Historic Castalian Springs in Sumner County, Tennessee, share objects from their historic house museum that speak to the process of creating a more perfect union. In this short bonus episode, you'll hear her discuss an artifact she believes the founding fathers couldn't have envisioned.This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, a series...
This episode continues our special series Curating Tennessee, 1776-2076. In this episode, Tonya Staggs, the Executive Director of Historic Castalian Springs in Sumner County, Tennessee, shares ways in which their historic house museum Cragfont represents the process of creating a more perfect union.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils i...
In this short bonus episode, John Ashworth, the President of the Dunbar-Carver Museum Association in Brownsville, Tennessee, shares an artifact that he believes the Founding Fathers wouldn't have imagined.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250 is a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Federation of State ...
Welcome to the seventh episode of our special series Curating Tennessee: 1776-2076! We're speaking with John Ashworth, the President of the Dunbar-Carver Museum Association in Brownsville, Tennessee. You'll hear John discuss the museum's collection of Haywood-Fayette newsletters, the museum's ongoing oral history projects, and what he imagines they might collect from future organizations that form to move past partisan divides.
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In this short bonus episode, Rachel Helvering, the Executive Director of the James K. Polk Home & Museum in Columbia, Tennessee, shares an artifact that she thinks the Founding Fathers couldn't have envisioned.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250 is a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Federation ...
Welcome to the sixth episode of our special series Curating Tennessee: 1776-2076! We're speaking with Rachel Helvering, the Executive Director of the President James K. Polk Home and Museum in Columbia, Tennessee. You'll hear Rachel discuss a portrait that represents President Polk's ideas about creating a more perfect union, and we'll imagine what type of future artifact could show Polk's legacy in the future.
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In this bonus episode, Adam Velk speculates about artifacts that he thinks may have been inconceivable to some of America's Founding Fathers.
This episode is part of By the People: Conversations Beyond 250 is a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and...
For the fifth episode of our special series Curating Tennessee, 1776-2076, we're speaking with Adam Velk, the Museum Director of the Green-McAdoo Cultural Center in Clinton, Tennessee. You'll hear Adam talk about two artifacts related to school desegregation in Anderson County, discuss plans for a new exhibit about the history of school integration around the county, and imagine what future statistics around teacher hiring could be...
In this bonus episode, Wayne Dowdy shares an artifact that he believes would have been inconceivable to America's Founding Fathers. He also talks about the fragility and strength of democracy.
For the fourth episode of our special series Curating Tennessee, 1776-2076, we're speaking with Wayne Dowdy, the Senior Manager of the Memphis Public Libraries History Department. You'll hear about a document that speak to the ongoing process of creating a more perfect union, the importance of creating oral histories that speaks to our current moment, and what Wayne can imagine archiving in the future.
In this bonus episode, Tranae Chatman shares a category of artifacts from the Tennessee State Museum's collection that she thinks would have been inconceivable to the Founding Fathers. She also shares the types of artifacts she's collecting today for future curators of her museum.
In the third episode of our special series Curating Tennessee, 1776-2076, we're speaking with Tranae Chatman, the Curator of Social History at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. You'll hear about a group of artifacts that speak to the ongoing process of creating a more perfect union, the importance of collecting art that speaks to our current moment, and what we can imagine collecting in the future.
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