Sylvia G. Stephens will discuss stories of human resilience told through quilts in a <a href='https://www.facebook.com/cmdcah/' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'>free, live broadcast from Pebble Hill</a> in Auburn. A fourth-generation quilter, Stephens was taught to sew by her mother as a young child using the family’s Singer treadle sewing machine. A graduate...
Shari L. Williams, a graduate assistant at the Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities will be joined by Dr. Terrance Vickerstaff, family historian and descendant of Major Harper and Betsy Scott. They will discuss Pebble Hill’s African-American family legacy through the story of Major Harper and Betsy Scott in...
2020 and the Future of Alabama History: Local Archives. <a href='https://www.alabamahistory.net/'>Co-sponsored by the Alabama Historical Association</a>. Featuring Felisha Anderson (Baldwin County Archives), Dr. Howard Robinson (Alabama State University Archives), and Marty Olliff (Wiregrass Archives at Troy University Dothan Campus). <a href='https://www.facebook.com/watch/AlabamaHistory/'>Link to watch</a>
Constitution Week Forum: Free Speech and the Inclusive Campus. Co-sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the <a href='https://auburn.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e8f813e1bfd52cbea154b18e7&id=5f1094a387&e=8bdd1a1bdd'>David Mathews Center for Civic Life</a>. Email <a href='mailto:hew0029@auburn.edu'>hew0029@auburn.edu</a> to register and receive a Zoom link.
Join Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and the Tuskegee History Center in their 'The Old Federal Road in Macon County' talk with Raven Christopher is Tuesday, September 22 at noon.
2020 and the Future of Alabama History: A Conversation with Frye Gaillard. <a href='https://www.alabamahistory.net/'>Co-sponsored by the Alabama Historical Association</a>. <a href='https://www.facebook.com/watch/AlabamaHistory/'>Link to Watch</a>
2020 and the Future of Alabama History: A Conversation with Richard Bailey Link to watch: https://www.facebook.com/watch/AlabamaHistory/
Book Talk: <i>The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War </i>by Ken Noe Link to Watch: https://www.facebook.com/cmdcah/
The Avalon Plantation Marker Story. Featuring Christine Sears, Drew Adan, Vaughn Bocchino, and Scotty Kirkland.
The Charles Oscar Harris Marker Story. Featuring Barbara Hilyer, Stephen Davis, Richard Bailey, and Scotty Kirkland.
The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities will offer a virtual holiday market at aub.ie/bbt. Attendees will learn about artists in the Black Belt region of Alabama and have an opportunity to purchase holiday gifts on the Black Belt Treasures website. Featured artists for the day will...
Three experts on the life, work, and research materials related to nineteenth-century American painter George Fuller will participate in an online panel discussion. Dr. Sarah Burnes, Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita at Indiana University Bloomington will discuss Fuller’s travels to the South in the 1850s. Dr. David Robb of Huntsville,...