Davidson County historian Dr. Carole Bucy regularly presents a popular Nashville history lecture series entitled "Nashville 101," with additional 102 and 103 classes. Prior courses may be viewed using the links below to access the videos on the Metro Nashville YouTube channel.
Call us at 615-862-7970 or email [email protected] with questions about the series.
2022 Nashville 103 Lecture Series
"New Horizons for the Music City (1945-present)"
- Session 1: "New! New! New!: Nashvillians Become Suburbians with the Post-World War II Boom (1945-1954)"
- Session 2: "Wait No Longer: Integration of Public Schools (and Everything Else) (1954—present)"
- Session 3: "When Two Become One: The Creation of Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County (1957-1963)"
- Session 4: "AND then? Everyone Wants to Come to Nashville (1963—present)"
2019 Nashville 102 Lecture Series
"Beyond the Antebellum Past, Toward a Global Future (1865-2010)"
- Session 1: "Gilded Age Nashville - Becoming the Athens of the South (1865-1900)"
- Session 2: "Nashville - The Gateway to the South (1880-1918)"
- Session 3: "Nashville: 1900-1945"
- Session 4: "Nashville: 1920-1963"
2019 Nashville 101 Lecture Series
"From Mound Builders to Minie Balls: A Survey of Nashville History up to the Civil War"
- Session 1: "The Cumberland Frontier Before and After the Arrival of Europeans"
- Session 2: "A Frontier Town Comes of Age"
- Session 3: "Andrew Jackson's Nashville"
- Session 4: "Storm Clouds on the Horizon"