Alabama Archives Announces 2025 Food for Thought Schedule

01/06/25



Press Release - For Immediate Release

Media Contact: Mary Amelia Taylor
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ALABAMA ARCHIVES ANNOUNCES 2025 FOOD FOR THOUGHT SCHEDULE

Montgomery, AL (01/06/25) - The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) has announced the 2025 schedule for its 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 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 each program. Admission is always free. Food for Thought 2025 is sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Friends of the Alabama Archives. 

Mobile and Havana: Sisters Across the Gulf
January 16 • John Sledge

Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse
February 20 • Pia Marie Winters Jordan

Lafayette: The Nation’s Guest
March 20 • Edwin C. Bridges

From Civil War to Uncivil Conduct: The Many Controversies of Major Joseph H. Sloss
April 17 • Kayla Scott Gurner

Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America
May 15 • Burgin Mathews

Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Online Only)
June 19 • Isabela Morales

Southern Rivers: Restoring America’s Freshwater Biodiversity
July 17 • Scot Duncan

Alabama’s Mosquito Warrior: William C. Gorgas
August 21 • Carol R. Byerly

Reconstruction Showdown: The Battle for the University of Alabama, 1869-1871 
September 18 • Warren Rogers 

A Tiger Among Us: The Bennie Adkins Story
October 16 • Katie Lamar Jackson

Muscogee Creek History and the American South, 1750-1815
November 20 • Steven Peach

Stories Matter: Our Southern Souls
December 18 • Lyn Oldshue

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, across Washington Avenue from the State Capitol. To learn more, visit archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364. 

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