We the People of Tennessee: Telling Our Stories Digitally

FAIN: BC-50227-04

Humanities Tennessee (Nashville, TN 37206-3607)
Terry Davis (Project Director: May 2004 to June 2005)
Jane Walters (Project Director: June 2005 to June 2007)
Kathryn A. Stephenson (Project Director: June 2007 to October 2008)

To develop a model for a relational database available on the Internet for community history projects being done in the three-county rural Tennessee Overhill and Nashville's more urban Rutledge Hill neighborhood.

“We the People of Tennessee: Telling our Stories Digitally” will create a model for making the results of local history projects accessible through the World Wide Web. The project will involve an urban neighborhood and three-county rural area, but the technology of the two projects and the final product will be the same: an internet-accessible database containing files for data and narratives about places, people, organizations, art and artifacts, and historical events and groups of events, all related to each other, and tied to a map through Geographical Information Systems.