CMD Center for the Arts and Humanities News

The public is invited to “When Cowards Shrink and Brave Men Die: Cowardice and Combat in the Confederate Army,” a talk by Dr. Lesley Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama, on Thursday, February 21 at 4:00 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill.

The public is invited to a book talk by Jessica Wilkerson, author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, on Wednesday, February 13 at 4 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill.

The public is invited to a book talk by Foster Dickson, author of Closed Ranks: The Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery, on Thursday, February 7 at 4 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill.

The public is invited to a book talk by Sam Hendrix, author of The Cary Legacy: Dr. Charles Allen Cary, Father of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn and in the South, on Tuesday, February 5 at 4 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill.

The public is invited to “Funny Talk: On the Nature of Dialect in the South and Elsewhere,” a talk by Dr. David Marlow, Breeden Eminent Visiting Scholar in the Arts & Humanities, on Wednesday, January 30 at 4 p.m. at Pebble Hill.

The public is invited to “Union Demobilization and the Meaning of Peace in the Wake of America’s Civil War,” a talk by Dr. Andrew Lang, author of In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War, on Thursday, January 31 at 4:00 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill.

The public is invited to a book talk by Joseph Bagley, author of The Politics of White Rights: Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama’s Schools, on Tuesday, January 29 at 4 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill.

Join us on Wednesday, January 23 from 10 a.m. to Noon at Pebble Hill for a free seminar on the early history of Alabama, with Dr. Jim Pate. Dr. Pate recently indexed and annotated Pickett’s History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period.