“Dr. Sullivan’s talk was an examination of primary sources ...” said Steve Murray, director, Alabama Department of Archives & History. “Those are basic concepts of historical inquiry, explored in this case through the story of Alabama’s LGBTQ+ community.”
Joe Hulse from central Alabama and his partner at the Cahaba River in 1912. The Invisible Histories Project recovered Hulse's diary which contained poems written by Hulse to several men he loved. IHP believes the diary is from the early 1900s.A presentation given by a group that researches the history of LGBTQ life in the South and sponsored by a state agency was part of a lecture series that is about “neither indoctrination nor politicization,” the agency’s director said Friday.
Steve Murray, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, was responding to criticism from two Republican state lawmakers of the Indivisible History Project’s presentation as part of the agency’s Food for Thought lecture series. “As its name suggests, the Food for Thought program is intended to connect specialists in a wide array of topics with members of the general public who are interested in learning about Alabama’s history. Not every program will be of interest to every Alabamian, but we strive to ensure that Alabamians will find somewhere in our offerings some historical content that is meaningful to them. Our aim is neither indoctrination nor politicization,” Murray said in a statement Friday to AL.com.
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