Posts by Nashville History On Tour

Dolly Parton gives royalties from Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ to Black community By Sudiksha KochiUSA TodayAugust 2, 2021 Dolly Parton has added another item to her long list of philanthropic acts: investing royalties from Whitney Houston’s rendition of “I Will Always Love You” to a local Black community in Nashville. In an…

Frederick Douglass Park, Anne Dallas Dudley Boulevard, the Ryman Auditorium’s Confederate Gallery. All three were in the news this summer — the first via a correction, the second a celebration and the third a contextualization. And local attorney and historian David Ewing had a hand in each. Ewing’s brand of public history is both accessible…

@thenashvilleiwishiknew Last year, the Scene’s writers anointed David Ewing “Best Historian.” This year, his Instagram account, @thenashvilleiwishiknew, gets our praise. Ewing’s collection of archival photographs, old newspaper clippings and found artifacts injects a bit of curiosity and thoughtfulness into a sometimes-mindless Instagram scroll. His posts are often timely, and he always seems to find a local angle…