The Library of Virginia’s Carole Weinstein Author Series continues this summer with free talks from experts on regional culture and history.

Erica Abrams Locklear will discuss her book “Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People” at 6 p.m. on

Thursday, July 27. She will be followed by historian Kidada Williams, with her book, “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2. Both discussions will take place at the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St.

Mrs. Locklear is a professor of English and the Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. Her book focuses on the representation of foods consumed, implied moral judgments about those foods and how those judgments shape reader perceptions of those depicted. She also is the author of “Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appa- lachian Women’s Literacies.”

Ms. Williams, an associate professor of history at Wayne State University, is a writer and historian who studies what happened to African-American survivors of racist violence. Her book presents a re-examination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction-era South. Ms. Williams offers a revelatory and, in some cases, minute-by-minute record of nighttime raids and Ku Klux Klan strikes, discussing how the effects of these attacks would linger for generations to come, according to a Library of Virginia news release.

The Carole Weinstein Author Series supports the literary arts by bringing both new and well-known authors to the Library of Virginia. The series focuses on Virginia authors and subjects across all genres and is made possible through support from the Carole Weinstein Endow- ment for Virginia Authors.

For more information, visit www.lva.virginia.gov/public/weinstein.