Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Prostitution in Civil-War Nashville,” a look at sex workers and brothels in the city during a time of strife, with Brandon Hulette, epidemiologist and military historian at Vanderbilt University.
For all of the revelry found on its streets at night, today’s Nashville is tame in comparison to the Nashville of the early 1860s, where abundant sex workers and brothels catered to soldiers in a time of war.
Come learn about Nashville’s “fancy women,” infamous Smokey Row red-light district, and struggles to regulate prostitution and contain huge outbreaks of venereal disease from Professor Brandon Hulette, a military historian and epidemiologist who has extensively researched this chapter of the city’s history. As the city prepares to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Nashville next month, it’s the perfect talk to convey how thoroughly the Civil War changed the city.
Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.