MOBILE, Ala. – Mike Bunn, director of Historic Blakely State Park, will discuss Gulf Coast history as the guest lecturer for the University of Mobile’s 19th annual Hinson Lecture Series on Thursday, March 14.
The free event will begin at 7 p.m. in College Woods Auditorium on the University of Mobile campus.
Bunn is the author of “Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era.”
He is the author or co-author of several books on Gulf South history focusing on the colonial, early statehood, antebellum and Civil War periods. Bunn is editor of “Muscogiana,” the journal of the Muscogee County, Georgia, Genealogical Society, chair of the Baldwin County Historic Development Commission, and treasurer of the Friends of Old Moble.
Previously, Bunn was director the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, a bi-state agency operating in southeast Alabama and southwestern Georgia. H served as a curator with the Columbus, Georgia Museum and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s Museum of Mississippi. He has also worked with the Birmingham Historical Society and the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society.
The Billy G. Hinson Series was established by the University of Mobile College of Arts and Sciences to present academic programs dealing with major topics in American history. The series is named in honor of the late Dr. Billy G. Hinson, who taught history at UM for 32 years, chaired the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and was named Emeritus Professor of History in 2015 after his 2011 retirement. Hinson died Sept. 29, 2020.
For more information about the Hinson Lecture Series, contact Dr. Matthew Downs, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, at 251.442.2588 or mdowns@umobile.edu.
About the University of Mobile
The University of Mobile is a Christ-centered university with a vision of “Higher Education for a Higher Purpose,” founded to honor God by equipping students for their future professions in an environment where they are known. Located 10 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, on a campus of over 880 acres, the university offers associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in over 75 academic programs.The University of Mobile was founded in 1961 and is affiliated with the Alabama Baptist State Convention.
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