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What is Heritage Education
Heritage Education uses local culture, historic properties and sites to teach the required curricula of grades K-12. Below you will find some examples and available tools for Heritage Education in the Heritage Area.
Teaching With Primary Sources
Teaching with Primary Sources empowers students and educators to shape their own learning experiences by engaging the world through primary sources. Reaching across every discipline and learning level, TPS invites educators to use the Library of Congress Web site as a powerful tool to reach students of all ages.
Teaching with Primary Sources empowers students and educators to shape their own learning experiences by engaging the world through primary sources. Reaching across every discipline and learning level, TPS invites educators to use the Library of Congress Web site as a powerful tool to reach students of all ages.
The Heritage Education Network
The Heritage Education Network (THEN), a public service project of the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, went online in 1998. This site provides ideas, lesson plans, activities, sources of information, and links for heritage education.
The Heritage Education Network (THEN), a public service project of the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, went online in 1998. This site provides ideas, lesson plans, activities, sources of information, and links for heritage education.
Teachers and educators are welcome to use copies of the Heritage Area's Teachers Guides (you are required to credit the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area on usage):
"Free at Last" Traveling Exhibit Available to Tennessee Communities
An educational exhibit created by the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area is available to communities in Tennessee free of charge. Entitled “Free at Last! Emancipation and Reconstruction in Tennessee,” the 2-panel exhibit emphasizes the significance of emancipation as a result of the Civil War.
“Free at Last!” provides an introduction to the joys and challenges shared by African Americans in Tennessee during the aftermath of slavery. The exhibit calls attention to the agency of former slaves in bringing about their freedom. The Reconstruction years were crucial to the development of African American communities throughout Tennessee. Former slaves founded scores of schools and churches. “Free at Last” highlights some of the emancipation communities that are wonderfully preserved in our state.
The exhibit debuted in February 2007 at the 26th Annual Conference on African American History and Culture held at Tennessee State University in Nashville. The exhibit has since traveled to the Roy Bailey African American History Center in Lebanon, the Sam Davis Home in Smyrna, the Granville Museum in Jackson County, the McLemore House Museum in Franklin, Oaklands Historic House Museum in Murfreesboro, the Rutherford County Archives in Murfreesboro, the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center in Townsend, the Germantown Regional History and Genealogical Center, several churches in the Denmark and Mercer communities in West Tennessee, and the Discovery Museum of West Tennessee in Jackson. In addition, the exhibit has been on view at the Legacy of Stones River Symposium in Murfreesboro and the Civil War Preservation Trust Summer Teacher Institute in Chattanooga.
For more information about the exhibit or to schedule it for your community, please contact Antoinette van Zelm at (615) 217-8013.
An educational exhibit created by the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area is available to communities in Tennessee free of charge. Entitled “Free at Last! Emancipation and Reconstruction in Tennessee,” the 2-panel exhibit emphasizes the significance of emancipation as a result of the Civil War.
“Free at Last!” provides an introduction to the joys and challenges shared by African Americans in Tennessee during the aftermath of slavery. The exhibit calls attention to the agency of former slaves in bringing about their freedom. The Reconstruction years were crucial to the development of African American communities throughout Tennessee. Former slaves founded scores of schools and churches. “Free at Last” highlights some of the emancipation communities that are wonderfully preserved in our state.
The exhibit debuted in February 2007 at the 26th Annual Conference on African American History and Culture held at Tennessee State University in Nashville. The exhibit has since traveled to the Roy Bailey African American History Center in Lebanon, the Sam Davis Home in Smyrna, the Granville Museum in Jackson County, the McLemore House Museum in Franklin, Oaklands Historic House Museum in Murfreesboro, the Rutherford County Archives in Murfreesboro, the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center in Townsend, the Germantown Regional History and Genealogical Center, several churches in the Denmark and Mercer communities in West Tennessee, and the Discovery Museum of West Tennessee in Jackson. In addition, the exhibit has been on view at the Legacy of Stones River Symposium in Murfreesboro and the Civil War Preservation Trust Summer Teacher Institute in Chattanooga.
For more information about the exhibit or to schedule it for your community, please contact Antoinette van Zelm at (615) 217-8013.
