PROGRAM: Three-week Master Local Historian pilot program offered by the Tennessee State Library and Archives in collaboration with the American Association of State and Local History and Humanities Tennessee
DATE: 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., Monday June 25, July 9 and 16, 2018
LOCATION: Tennessee State Library & Archives, 403 7th Ave. North Nashville, TN 37243
ADMISSION: FREE | Registration is required and limited to 20 participants
The Tennessee State Library and Archives, in collaboration with the American Association for State and Local History and Humanities Tennessee, invites you to participate in a new pilot program called MASTER LOCAL HISTORIANS. If you enjoy learning, thinking, discussing, reading, and writing about history then this program is for you!
Master Local Historians provides an opportunity to learn about the craft of the historian. What is historical thinking, and why does it matter? What sources are available to help advance your research? How do you care for artifacts and photographs in your own personal collection? With guidance from history professionals, Master Local Historians teaches how historians approach questions about the past and provides the tools to pursue a personally meaningful history project, such as community, buildings, church, or family history.
Tennessee is the first state to pilot the Master Local Historians program. Individuals who register for the course will participate in three, 3-hour sessions beginning June 25, 2018. Each session will take on a different topic with the goal of preparing you to begin your investigation of local history:
3:00-6:00 p.m., Monday, June 25: “The Power of Historical Thinking”
- Understand historical thinking
- Understand the relevance of good local history
- Learn how to evaluate interpretive products of local history
- Grasp the vocabulary, skills, and process of structuring a local history project
- Share information about local history projects on which you already may be working
- Instructors-Myers Brown, Archivist, Tennessee State Library & Archives and Dr. Erica Hayden, Trevecca Nazarene University
3:00-6:00 p.m., Monday, July 9: “Source and Resources”
- Learn about the research assets at online and brick-and-mortar libraries and archives, and meet key staff at each
- Learn how to search for secondary and primary sources at those sites
- Learn how to get started with genealogy and family history research
- Match a research strategy to a research question
- Differentiate secondary from primary sources Identify evidence in sources
- Evaluate conflicts among evidence, in primary resources
- Instructors-Myers Brown and Sara Horne, Archivists, Tennessee State Library & Archives
3:00-6:00 p.m., Monday, July 16: “Collections: Their Care and Meaning”
- Understand a public, curated collection Identify personal collections
- Gain an introductory understanding of collections care
- Understand that artifacts, costumes, correspondence, books, etc., are primary sources with meaning
- Instructors-Myers Brown, Archivist, and Carol Roberts, Conservator, Tennessee State Library & Archives
Sessions are interactive and discussion-based and provide a chance to not only learn from experts but float ideas, grapple with tricky questions, and learn the historian’s craft by doing.
If you are interested in participating in the Master Local Historians pilot, please contact Myers Brown at the Tennessee State Library & Archives. The pilot program is free, but registration is required by calling (615) 741-1883 or emailing ADP.TSLA@tn.gov. Participation limited to 20 individuals committed to all three sessions.
Master Local Historians is a new program from the American Association for State and Local History, supported by grant funding from Humanities Tennessee and operated in partnership with the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
The Tennessee State Library and Archives is a division of the Office of Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett
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