Dr. Andrea Watkins will give a free public talk, “A Mild Institution?: Slavery in Antebellum Kentucky,” at noon, Friday, November 9 in the Science Lecture Hall at Thomas More College, 333 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills, Ky. Dr. Watkins is an assistant professor of history at Northern Kentucky University and co-author of Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War (2011). The presentation is sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and History Club. For further information, contact John Cimprich at 859-344-3394.