Thinking South: Brown Bag Lunch Gathering with Grace Elizabeth Hale
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Join us for a conversation with Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia, and a historian of twentieth-century America and the regional culture of the U.S. South. Hale’s current project, “They Don’t Own Us: Harlan County, Kentucky, and the Past and Future of Working Class America,” tells the dramatic story of the first strike in US history to successfully adopt the tactics of the 1960s social movements and what it reveals about the forgotten history of labor’s fight to save the American Dream in the 1970s. Hale is a 2025–26 fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Bring lunch or a snack. Beverages provided.