Thu, Mar 12
|Jemison-Van De Graaff Mansion
Lecture Series
Join us for our second installment of this years Annual Lecture Series. This lecture will delve into fourteen founders of the State who helped shape its course.
Time & Place
Mar 12, 2020, 5:30 PM
Jemison-Van De Graaff Mansion, 1305 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA
Information
While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people who participated in those events. In Alabama Founders:Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State Herbert James Lewis provides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama’s status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state.
Herbert James Lewis is retired from the US Department of Justice and currently serves on the board of directors of the Alabama Historical Association. He is author of Clearing the Thickets: A History of Antebellum Alabama and Lost Capitals of Alabama. He has also published articles in the Alabama Review and Alabama Heritage.