- Are you registered to vote?

Do you have a plan to vote in our next election?

So our founders said, you know, America has a republic if it can keep it.

It is literally the responsibility of every citizen and every generation to learn about where we come from.

The founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, to understand what those mean, how they have changed over time, how Americans have fought for those ideals, how Americans have disagreed about what those ideals mean for our present moment in history, - Different tribal nations, different races, different religious groupings.

- My name is Amy Seaward.

I'm the director of the American Democracy Project here at Middle Tennessee State University.

So today's events were such a joy, we're so happy to partner with Nashville.

PBS, they brought with them the Ken Burns documentary, the American Revolution, and we had a panel of three historians connected to MTSU, who talked about what the revolution looked like in Tennessee, how indigenous Americans intersected with the American Revolution, and how enslaved people and free black people participated in the American Revolution.

And then we got to do even more.

We did a teacher workshop with our pre-professional teachers to share with them, again in partnership with the Sons of the American Revolution, as well as Nashville PBS, giving those teachers awesome resources - Here.

So this is your communication device.

This the drums, basically the, I'm absolutely a PBS kid.

I consider it a fundamental part of my love for education, you know, and the fact that that was always accessible to my family, even coming from a lower income bracket, it just means the world, you know, to kids like me to have that content.

You know, at the end of the day, having empathy and caring about other people's stories.

I, I, I think that's so important.

Requirements - For every man.

I've used PBS materials from the beginning as an educator and as a historian, because me standing in front of a class and talking about something is different than watching the audio visual experience that PBS can bring into my classroom.

I love PBSI love Nashville.

PBS.