Montgomery, AL (12/29/25) - The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) has announced the 2026 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 Archives and online via Facebook and YouTube. Visit archives.alabama.gov for the latest information about each program. Admission is always FREE. Food for Thought 2026 is sponsored the Friends of the Alabama Archives. 

The Proof is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money
January 15 • Kathryn Beasley

The Montgomery Bus Boycott: A Retrospective
February 19 • Richard Bailey, Mills Thornton, & Ed Bridges

You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks
March 19 • Thordis Simonsen

The Civil War Letters of Alabama’s Pickens Family
April 16 • Henry M. McKiven, Jr.

Family Lore, Local History, and True Crime on Sand Mountain
May 21 • Lesa Carnes Shaul

Colony, Alabama: The Story of an African American Settlement
June 18 • Ethel Alexander

“We Are All Co-Equal Heirs”: Milo B. Howard Jr. and the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial in Alabama
July 16 • Sophie Law

Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South
August 20 • Julia Brock

"The Bond of Long Peace": Alexander McGillivray, George Washington, & the Treaty of New York
September 17 • Alex Colvin

Polling Alabama: The AEA Capital Survey Research Center, 1996-2014
October 15 • Gerald Johnson

A History of Army Aviation in the Heart of the South
November 19 • Bryant Macfarlane

Images of a State: The Alabama Media Group Collection at the Department of Archives & History
December 17 • Meredith McDonough

The Alabama Archives 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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