Drinking History: How Beverages Have Changed America
Tuesday, March 26
3:30 PM
Paley Library Lecture Hall
1210 Polett Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19122
What is American drink? Is it warmed-over traditional British beverages, such as tea and ale? Or is it versions of ethnic beverages brought by successive waves of immigrants—sangria, tequila, bubble tea? Or is it the fiercely marketed creations of America’s beverage industry—Kool-Aid, Snapple, Coors, Coca-Cola? Andrew F. Smith, author of the just released Drinking History: 15 Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages (Columbia University Press) will discuss how beverages have changed American history and how Americans have invented, adopted, modified, and commercialized tens of thousands of beverages. Involved in their creation and promotion were entrepreneurs and environmentalists, bartenders and bottlers, politicians and lobbyists, organized and unorganized criminals, German and Italian immigrants, advertisers and consumers, prohibitionists and medical professionals, and everyday Americans in love with their brew.
Upcoming Programs
| • | Thursday, March 28 at 2:30 PM in Paley Library Lecture Hall Join us for our Chat in the Stacks series of faculty conversations co-sponsored by the Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color explores a talk on African American Women in the Press |
| • | Thursday, April 11 at 3:00 PM in Paley Library Lecture Hall Join us for U.S. Immigration Reform: Current Questions and Debate. Featuring a panel of activists and experts including Blanca Pacheco, Jaya Ramji-Nogales an Associate Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and Jorge Salazar, moderated by Terry Halbert, professor of legal studies at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. |
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