Auburn University Libraries will host Dr. Elijah Gaddis, College of Liberal Arts History Department, at the next Discover Auburn Lecture Series as he talks about his book, “Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things” (Cambridge University Press). The program will take place on November 2 at 3 p.m. in the Caroline Marshall Draughon auditorium on the ground floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library. The program will also be available remotely at: https://auburn.zoom.us/j/88100608152
“Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things” is about the material culture of racial terror lynching--the objects made, kept, and preserved from the thousands of African American people brutally tortured and killed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The writing of this book led to the discovery and uncovering of archives and objects rarely consulted by historians. Gaddis will be using this talk to share insights into how we might better understand the world of things and the difficult histories that surround us.
This event is open to the public.
