Women reflect on their mountain upbringing
In The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women, editor Kami Ahrens curates a collection of voices that subvert the pastoral image of mountain living. Ahrens will appear at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
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A true story of adventure and inspiration for middle-grade readers
Adapted for middle-grade readers from Hayley Arceneaux’s 2022 memoir of the same name, Wild Ride tells the story of her recovery from childhood cancer and her unexpected opportunity, at age 29, to join the first all-civilian mission to space.
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Drew Gilpin Faust recalls growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s
In Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust recalls her privileged Virginia childhood in the 1950s and her growing involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Faust will appear at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
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Historian Timothy S. Huebner discusses how a “culture of constitutionalism” shaped the Civil War era
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Liberty and Union, Rhodes College professor Timothy S. Huebner brings together an enormous body of scholarship on the secession crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction, compelling us to reconsider what we think we know about the era.
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50 Books / HT50, Part 2: 1978-1986
As Humanities Tennessee celebrates its 50th birthday this year, we’re marking the occasion by highlighting 50 notable Tennessee books that have appeared over the past five decades.
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In The Men Can’t Be Saved, a rascally antihero struggles to get out of his own way
In Ben Purkert’s debut novel, The Men Can’t Be Saved, a young copywriter lets success inflate his ego until he finds his life spinning out of control. Ben Purkert will discuss The Men Can’t Be Saved at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
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