Auburn professor to speak in Demopolis

Auburn University professor Kathryn Braund will speak on Creek Women and the War Thursday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. in Demopolis.

Brand, author of Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, will make her presentation at the Marengo County History and Archives Museum at 101 N. Walnut Avenue.

The event is sponsored by the Marengo County Historical Society.

Historians of the Creek War traditionally focus on battles and commanders and rarely, if ever, consider the impact of war on women and children. And yet the Creek civil war resulted in an invasion of a populous region which destroyed not only the lives of male warriors, but the homes and lives of women and their children. This talk will explore the impact of the war on Creek women, who lived through fierce battles, witnessed the capture and torture of family members, endured humiliating captivity, and, at war’s end, were left to rebuild their homes in a devastated country.

Kathryn Holland Braund is Hollifield Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. She is the author of Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685−1815, coeditor of Fields of Vision: Essays on the “Travels” of William Bartram and William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, and editor of Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812.

This lecture is a part of the Draughon Seminars in State and Local History, a series of lectures sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University

For more information about Draughon Seminars, please visit www.auburn.edu/cah. The series is funded by the Kelly Mosley Endowment in honor of Dr. Ralph B. Draughon, president of Auburn University from 1947 to 1965. Draughon was a historian with a deep commitment to both state history and public education.

For more information, contact 334-341-3439.