Lectures and Events

The Filson Historical Society
1310 S. Third Street
Louisville, KY 40208
(502) 635-5083

The Henry D. Ormsby, III Seminar Series

The Blue Box: Five Lives in Letters

The 'Hard Dilemma' of Quaker Pacifists in the Ohio and Patomac Valleys in Civil War America

Book Launch: Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1863

Young Filsonians: Receptions and Viewing of the Garden at Oxmoor

Exhibit Tour: 20th Century African American Collections at the Filson

SAVE THE DATE!

National Issues, Local Struggles: The Civil Rights Movement in the Ohio Valley and Beyond

May 17, 18, 19, 2012 

FILSON FRIDAYS!

June 22 - "Treat Them as Wild Beasts": Civil War Bandits and Guerillas in the Ohio Valley Region - Mark Wetherington 

June 29 -  "A Government on Wheels": Kentucky's Confederate Government - Jim Holmberg

July 6 - Melville Otter Briney and Old Louisville - Jennie Cole, Associate Curator of Special Collections

July 13 - Rare Pamphlets: An Underutilized Asset in The Filson's Collections - Judith Partington, Kara Hennis, and Cassie Bratcher

July 20 - The Process of History: Cataloging the Bullitt Family Papers - Shirley Harmon

July 27 - Lucy Nichols and the Limits of Freedom in the Post-Civil War Ohio Valley - Glenn Crothers

August 3 - The Language of Buildings: An Introduction to The Filson's Architectural Collection - Sarah-Jane Poindexter

August 10 - Distillers and the 18th Amendment - Michael Veach

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