Press Release - For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Georgia Ann Hudson
(334) 353-3312 or georgiaann.hudson@archives.alabama.gov
ARCHIVES ANNOUNCES 2023 FOOD FOR THOUGHT SCHEDULE
Montgomery, AL (01/11/2023) – The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) has announced the 2023 schedule for its popular Alabama history lunchtime lecture series, Food for Thought. Lectures are held on the third Thursday of every month at 12:00 pm CT. Programs are presented both in-person at the ADAH and online via the ADAH’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Visit archives.alabama.gov for the latest information about individual programs. Admission is always free. Food for Thought 2023 is sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
January 19 • Kathryn Braund
Traveling With William Bartram and Friends
February 16 • Fred Gray
Alabama v. King: The Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
March 16 • James C. Cobb
What Dr. King Didn’t Say about C. Vann Woodward’s The Strange Career of Jim Crow
April 20 • Victoria Ott
The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama
May 18 • Bob Beatty
Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East
June 15 • Maigen Sullivan
Invisible No More: Alabama’s LGBTQ+ History
July 20 • Todd Steury
Black Bears: The Past and Present of Alabama’s State Mammal
August 17 • Ed Southern
Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South
September 21 • Greg Waselkov
Discovering An Ancient Dugout Canoe Canal in South Alabama
October 19 • Sophia Bracy Harris
Finding My Own Way: A Journey to Wholeness Against the Odds
November 16 • Christopher Rein
Mobilizing the South: The 31st Infantry Division, Race, and World War II
December 21 • Haley Aaron
Spaces of Self: Diaries and Scrapbooks of Young Alabamians
The ADAH is the state’s government-records repository, a special-collections library and research facility, and home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown Montgomery, directly across Washington Avenue from the State Capitol. To learn more, visit archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364.
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