Linda Wynn — the Tennessee Historical Commission’s assistant director for state programs — is a historian’s historian. Not only is her own work impeccable, she’s also responsible for a lot of the support work that makes being a historian in Tennessee possible. You want to put up a historical marker? Talk to Linda. You need someone to consult on a project you’re working on? Talk to Linda. Do you have a history class at a local university you need an instructor for? Talk to Linda. Come February, she’ll have been running the Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture for 45 years, which means she’s been instrumental in preserving Nashville’s history and vetting the research other historians are doing for nearly a fifth of the city’s existence. Through her work, she’s set the tenor for how Nashville history is done and made sure that it’s shared with everyone.
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Linda Wynn
Professor Linda Wynn
