Learning Lunch
Of all the History Museum’s programs, Learning Lunch affords me the most consistent opportunity to remove myself from a busy work week, and learn something new about the city I call my home….”
This series allows guests to enjoy free presentations on a wide range of historical and cultural topics. Admission to Learning Lunch is free. Bring your lunch and enjoy complimentary beverages.
Each program begins at noon.
For more information about the Learning Lunch programs, contact Jennifer Theeck, Curator of Education at: 251-301-0270 or theeckj@historymuseumofmobile.com
2024 Learning Lunch Speakers & Topics
January 10
I’ve Got a Mardi Gras Secret
Steve Joynt, Journalist and Editor of Mobile Mask Magazine, featuring music from the Excelsior Band
February 21
"Countrymarks on the Forehead": African Faces and African Freedom in the Archives of Nineteenth-Century Slavery
Dr. Roseanne Adderley, Associate Professor at Tulane University
March 13
Madame LeVert
Paula Webb, Outreach and Communications Librarian at the University of South Alabama
April 10
The Shipwreck and Excavation of La Belle, a 17th-Century French Attempt to Colonize the New World
Dr. Amy Mitchell-Cook, Professor of History and Interim Dean of the University of West Florida
May 8
George B. Rogers: A Look at His Designs and the Clients Behind Them
Tom McGehee, Director of the Bellingrath Home, and Cart Blackwell, Curator of the Mobile Carnival Museum
June 12
Mules, Machines, and the Cotton South, 1850-1950
Dr. George B. Ellenberg, Professor of History and Provost Emeritus at the University of West Florida
July 10
Getting Out of the Mud: How Alabama Built Roads that “Started Somewhere and Ended Somewhere”
Dr. Martin T. Olliff, Professor of History and Director of the Wiregrass Archives at Troy University
August 14
The Colonial Spanish Slave Trade in the lower Mississippi Valley: History and Violence between 1763 and 1819
Dr. Christian Pinnen, Professor of History and Co-Director of African-American Studies at Mississippi College
September 11
Race and Masculinity in William Johnson’s Natchez
Dr. Timothy Buckner, Associate Professor of History at Troy University
October 9
Digging All Night and Fighting All Day: The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama
Paul Brueske, Author and Head Track and Field Coach at the University of South Alabama
November 13
Alabama in the Great War
Dr. Matthew Downs, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Mobile
December 11
Voyage of the Pelican Girls
Dr. Alison Henry, Biomedical Sciences Instructor at the University of South Alabama
Dates and topics are subject to change. Call (251) 301-0270 for more information.