CMD Center for the Arts and Humanities News

The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University is the recipient of a $74,127 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the agency’s new Dialogues on the Experience of War grant program. The grant will fund six reading-discussion programs in communities across the state, as well as two semester-length courses offered in state correctional facilities.

The public is invited to a talk by Susan Abram, author of Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War: From Creation to Betrayal, on Wednesday, March 23 at 4 p.m. at Pebble Hill.  

The public is invited to a talk by Giovanna Summerfield, co-editor and contributor to Sicily and the Mediterranean: Migration, Exchange, Reinvention, on Tuesday, March 22 at 4 p.m. at Pebble Hill.  

The public is invited to “Landing Craft Infantry 449: Auburn’s Lt. Byron Yarbrough and the Battle for Iwo Jima," a talk by Dennis Blocker, on Thursday, March 31 at 4 p.m. at Pebble Hill.