Georgia and her work to later organize unions. History, a in georgetown history professor talks about culture and society in the 1920s. So now, civil war fashion. Investigating the power of objects to be emblematic of Historic Events and to help us understand the past. As a historian at new york historical, i work alongside these treasures every day, and its my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. The inspiration for our program, civil war in 50 objects how do only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . As the cover shows, we managed tactile objects and images. The hardest thing to preserve the civil war in 50 objects the hardest thing to preserve are textiles. The objects we discussed today, some are extraordinary in terms of how they survived. Absolutely, and without further ado, lets get to our four things. We have some military buttons, a footlocker, a drum, and a uniform. Ery interesting in aggregate, they do tell the story of uniform, outfitting a civil war soldie
He also talks about the surprise chinese counterattack and intense combat at the battle of cho sin reservoir, where he was captured. Watch korean war oral histories tonight, beginning at 8 00 eastern on cspan3. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Every july, for the past 25 years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a civil war battle reenactment and living history village, depicting camp life. Next, we visit a union army surgeon and embalmer and talk to reenactors about medical practices during the war. During the very beginning of the war, like i said, maybe around 1860, when there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army, you know. Well, dr. Letterman in 1862 took, at antietam, took over the medical court. When he did that, he devised the whole thing around. Now he created an ambulance corps, where we could get the men in off the battlefield quicker and faster. He also went and had to test the surgeons to be armyqualified surgeons. Thats
But im sure youve heard me call every time period in North Carolina history tumultuous. But this is no exception. So todays lecture is called worth bagley, the Southern Confederate christ masculine messiah. And were actually going to dive more of the topic memory making. And so there are two types of memory and ill you may not be familiar with these terms yet. Go ahead, brian. The pause. So official memory and vernacular memory. Vernacular, i think, is that right . Okay. So what do you think official memory is. I dont expect you notes and it gets to be great. Yeah. So its accepted by the government. Very good. So you use the word the state. Its, its a state narrative, its the official narrow div of the story. Like theres an official story of america and you know 1776 the constitution and oftentimes these are used for consensus building and in order to do that you have to erase whats called a vernacular memory. And so the word vernacular is chosen reason. What do you think this is . We
All right. Well, welcome to another edition, a North Carolina history. So this lecture today actually well, with what were studying right now in the class, the turn of the 20th century in North Carolina, the tumultuous 1890, but im sure youve heard me call every time period in North Carolina history tumultuous. But this is no exception. So todays lecture is called worth bagley, the Southern Confederate christ masculine messiah. And were actually going to dive more of the topic memory making. And so there are two types of memory and ill you may not be familiar with these terms yet. Go ahead, brian. The pause. So official memory and vernacular memory. Vernacular, i think, is that right . Okay. So what do you think official memory is. I dont expect you notes and it gets to be great. Yeah. So its accepted by the government. Very good. So you use the word the state. Its, its a state narrative, its the official narrow div of the story. Like theres an official story of america and you know 17
Well, with what were studying right now in the class, the turn of the 20th century in North Carolina, the tumultuous 1890, but im sure youve heard me call every time period in North Carolina history tumultuous. But this is no exception. So todays lecture is called worth bagley, the Southern Confederate christ masculine messiah. And were actually going to dive more of the topic memory making. And so there are two types of memory and ill you may not be familiar with these terms yet. Go ahead, brian. The pause. So official memory and vernacular memory. Vernacular, i think, is that right . Okay. So what do you think official memory is. I dont expect you notes and it gets to be great. Yeah. So its accepted by the government. Very good. So you use the word the state. Its, its a state narrative, its the official narrow div of the story. Like theres an official story of america and you know 1776 the constitution and oftentimes these are used for consensus building and in order to do that you h