You. The gift to me is to have the opportunity to moderate this panel. Artifacts of the civil war. Starring the scholars you see seated on the stage before you. Joan is professor of American History at Ohio State University and the author of first lady of the confederacy. And the struggle for human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War which was published last year. We will be talking a lot about things during the civil war area today and we will be using primary source analysis that was taken taken from her edited volume of essays also 2018 entitled war matters, material culture. For sale now. Or after this panel. This is the stewarthe is the author of more than 20 books on civil war topics and the last attack at gettysburg. Most recent book is fighting for atlanta tactics, terrain and trenches published by doing so you press in 2018. This is Jason Phillips the Eberly Family professor is the author of booming civil war how americans imagine the future which is publishe
Two big picture questions you listed about Historical Context and historical method. First we want you to ask the question, how do people in the civil war about era civil war era value things. Those meetings may be of the esx museum in Salem Massachusetts on a thing that is actually two things that came together some our job is to show you how we do our work. His name is Charles William merrill. A of a soldier in company the 19 massachusetts, which was in the third gate a Second Division second core of the we can use this of thet, which is a part compiled service record, these are available in the national archives. Tocan use the federal census learn, about Charles William merrill. Bibles reads, from your affectionate pass and affectionate pastor august 12, 1862. That is three days after he enlisted. From a letter charles wrote to his mother in february of 1863. Foster,when you see mr. Remember me to him. Hardly a day passes by without my thinking of him. That happened. This is a map t
On autobiography. The book examines the differences in writing styles between men and women in autobiographical works. This encore presentation is just under an hour. Cspan jill ker conway, author of when memory speaks reflections on autobiography, where did you get the idea for this . Guest well, i have been traveling around with my publicist from alfred knopf and giving readings from some of my earlier volumes and memoirs, and i started to explain to the audience before i read something about the genre, something about its history and where i thought my own work fitted in with it. And the audience would always get very interested and ask a lot of questions, and finally, my editor said one day, well, why dont you do a book about this . so i thought it was a wonderful idea and ii had to do a great deal of reading of 19th century memoirs that i hadnt read before in order to do the book, but i had great fun doing it. Cspan i have a copy of something youll. Guest mm. Cspan . Youll recogni
The appearance of integrity. But coolidge also prized respect for harding. Those people werent condemned yet, innocent until Proven Guilty and continuity for the people in market. So he kept the cabinet for a while. Eventually some people left. The secretary of the interior left. Coolidge did have an investigation. He named a Bipartisan Team to look into corruption in the harding administration. But he thought first of continuity when he became president in august of 1923. Who was the secretary of the treasury . That would be Andrew Mellon who was his and hardings before hoovers after. He is like bernanke though he was treasury secretary, it was said that three president s served under him. How did that relate to the mellon name that we know now, the mellon bank . Mellon was a very wealthy man and he made much of his money which he created an empire in pittsburgh in steel aluminum. He was also what we might call a venture capitalist. He would give a man money if a man had a good idea,