Louisville’s Gilded Age with author and historian Daniel Gifford

Daniel Gifford will discuss his discoveries from "Louisville’s Gilded Age found in his new book Benefactors of Posterity: The Founding Era of the Filson Historical Society 1884-1899." 

This critical exploration of historic touchstones, like Enid Yandell’s Daniel Boone statue, the Southern Exposition, and the tornado of 1890, revises our understanding of key moments in our regional history. In the middle of it all was the Filson Club (now the Filson Historical Society), whose multifaceted origin story provides a window into Louisville’s growth and the evolution of historical study at the dawn of a new century.

Daniel Gifford is a professor at the University of Louisville. Gifford's career spans both academia and public history, including several years with the Smithsonian Institution. His scholarship on American popular culture--including holidays, leisure activities, museums, and visual culture-- has been featured in numerous interviews and articles including the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, Slate Magazine, Time, and Smithsonian Magazine. 

A book signing will follow the event, with books available for purchase from Butler Books. 

Register at www.LFPL.org/Authors or call (502) 574-1644.