Guest Lecturer to Speak on Impact of Alabama 4-H at AU Library Sept. 11

A lecture on the impact of Alabama 4-H from a historical perspective will be Thursday, Sept. 11, at Auburn University’s Ralph Draughon Library.

Gabriel Rosenberg, a doctoral graduate student from Brown University, will speak on “The Seeds of Democracy: Nationalism, Citizenship, and Democratic Practice in Alabama 4-H, 1940-1948” at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives department on the ground floor of the library.

The lecture is part of the Centennial Year of Alabama 4-H. A reception for Rosenberg will follow his lecture.

Rosenberg completed part of his research for his dissertation at AU Libraries, studying the history of Alabama 4-H. His dissertation is “Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots of the Modern Rural, 1914-1948.” He is a graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa and Brown University, and has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and at Brown University.

The lecture is sponsored by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Auburn University Libraries and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities
in the College of Liberal Arts.

For more information,contact: Janet McCoy, Alabama 4-H state activities and events coordinator, (334) 844-7690, or Dwayne Cox, University Archivist at (334)844-1707.

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