Of the Newyork Historical Society top of the articles in the joint publication. A civil war in 50. Objects they risks they discuss objects civil war technicality, includings will secret war codes. The new york Historical Society provided the video. So harold, weve been talking in the series about the power of objects being touchstones and historical event, being conduits to understanding the past. Its a thrill and extort a experience being historian in new york historian and working along these treasures and using them in my exhibitions. Lets talk about a second for the inspiration for this program a civil war in 50 objects. I can 50 objects tells such a sweeping . Story we so after cells that question often when we were whittling down the list and it was so much to choose from. I guess the way we did it as i recall, his first we discussed the medium of the object. We wanted, photographs paintings, objects, relics and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war. First year
Let me introduce our first guest. He is the director americas of the u. S. Monitor center in newport news, and im sure many of you have been there, if you have not, you need to go, its an amazing collection of material that they have there. Hes the author of 17 books, to that would be interesting to all of you is the csis virginia, sink before surrender, and the monitor voice, the core of the union first. He has received many awards, including the National Trust for president award for Historic Preservation and many others. His top today is the ship that save the nation, please welcome mr. Quarstein. Thank you. On march 8, 1862, there was a terrible day for the union. It turned the tide in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships. The cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray, people were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing this super weapon, as they would call
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So, a Flood Warning for the entire bay area as we get into a pretty strong fold front thats headed our way tonight with gusty winds. Ill detail the entire outlook for the week ahead coming up. Well, today is the first full day of Donald Trumps presidency. It was a historic and busy day and night for the trump family. It was both pomp and circumstance and getting right to work. People from across the country, including many here in the bay area, are in d. C. To protest today in todays womens march. As many as 200,000 people are expected to participate. Organizers say they want to tell the new administration that on day one, womens rights are human rights. Personally, ive been waiting for a place to plug in, in some universal way, in some national way. Some protests yesterday turned violent. Others celebrated and are looking forward to the new to the change President Trump is promising to bring. Hundreds of those witnessed his swearing in ceremony at the u. S. Capitol, capped off by thre
Commander in chief amid pomp and chaos. From coast to coast, the nations stark divide is on full display. Good evening and thank you for joining us, im ama dietz. Im eric thomas. And im dan ashley, live in washington, d. C. A lot is happening right here in this city on President Trumps first day. Let me catch you up on some of the latest headlines here in washington. In just the past couple of hours we got our first look at donald trump inside the oval office. He signed his First Executive order as president. An order for federal agencies to ease the burden of president obamas sweeping health care law. Were working to get more details on what that order actually means. It comes after congress voted for a full repeal act. Stay tuned for that. President trumps two cabinet nominees were sworn in, james mattis, and general kelly as Homeland Security secretary. Earlier today, the Senate Confirmed both nominations earlier in this day. A busy, busy day in washington. The parade is now over, t