Students from University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ Visit Fort Negley

The University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ was offered for the second time during the spring 2018 semester. To chronicle some of the highlights of the course, several students authored blogs reflecting on site visits the class took during the semester. Over the next few weeks, these blogs will be published on the VU BreakThru webpage….

Posted by anderc8 on June 18, 2018 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Students from University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ Visit Tennessee State Archives

The University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ was offered for the second time during the spring 2018 semester. To chronicle some of the highlights of the course, several students authored blogs reflecting on site visits the class took during the semester. Over the next few weeks, these blogs will be published on the VU BreakThru webpage….

Posted by anderc8 on June 15, 2018 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Students from University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ Visit Fisk University

The University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ was offered for the second time during the spring 2018 semester. To chronicle some of the highlights of the course, several students authored blogs reflecting on site visits the class took during the semester. Over the next few weeks, these blogs will be published on the VU BreakThru webpage….

Posted by anderc8 on June 13, 2018 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Students from University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ Visit Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities

The University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ was offered for the second time during the spring 2018 semester. To chronicle some of the highlights of the course, several students authored blogs reflecting on site visits the class took during the semester. Over the next few weeks, these blogs will be published on the VU BreakThru webpage….

Posted by anderc8 on June 11, 2018 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Students from University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ Reflect on Visit to Nashville Public Library

The University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ was offered for the second time during the spring 2018 semester. To chronicle some of the highlights of the course, several students authored blogs reflecting on site visits the class took during the semester. Over the next few weeks, these blogs will be published on the VU BreakThru webpage….

Posted by anderc8 on June 7, 2018 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Re-Introducing ‘Historic Black Nashville’

Co-Written by Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Jane Landers and Professor of Law Daniel Sharfstein Following a successful launch of our University Course ‘Historic Black Nashville’ last year, we are eagerly looking forward to co-teaching the second iteration of the course this spring.  We look forward to building upon the research our students accomplished…

Posted by anderc8 on January 24, 2018 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Recapping the first offering of Historic Black Nashville

Written by Vanderbilt History Professor Jane Landers It was a true pleasure co-teaching the new University Course Historic Black Nashville with my colleague from the Law School Daniel Sharfstein last semester. We both got tremendous gratification from seeing our students engage with the varied materials available for exploring our city’s missing past.  As they put…

Posted by anderc8 on February 9, 2017 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Metro Archives Site Visit

In September, the students of Historic Black Nashville visited the Metro Archives at the Nashville Public Library in downtown Nashville to conduct immersive research by reviewing texts, newspapers and other documents from the 1800s. A sampling of student-penned blog posts can be found below. Kamala Varma Freshman Major undeclared  Many of the slave-related documents [at the Metro…

Posted by anderc8 on December 7, 2016 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Fort Negley Site Visit

In October, the students of Historic Black Nashville visited Fort Negley to learn about the social, political and military forces central to Nashville and Middle Tennessee during the Civil War. Two student-penned blog posts can be found below. Leoncia K. Gillespie Freshman Biology major While struggling to read through manuscripts and other primary documents is an example of analyzing tangible…

Posted by anderc8 on December 6, 2016 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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Hermitage Site Visit

In September, the students of Historic Black Nashville visited the Hermitage to gain a deeper understanding of the history of slavery on the plantation. A sampling of student-penned blog posts can be found below. Max Martineau Senior Economics & Public Policy major I think one of the really interesting things to think about is that although thousands…

Posted by anderc8 on October 25, 2016 in Historic Black Nashville, News

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