Slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. Weve already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women, and that is sexual violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those their lives, as you will recall, is the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, but sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here, we have with the we have an opportunity with the celia case the opportunity to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. So, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you
That means a lot that you are here with us. Especially raising money for such great causes. I want to think first of all the best bookstore in all the land, Harvard Bookstore. I want to thank my friend jeff for hosting this discussion. The panelists are all authors of some of the most important works ever written on race and the american experience. And i strongly, strongly encourage you to purchase their text and other work you are interested in from Harvard Bookstore its another independent booksellers. I also want to think of other hosts, the incredible Boston Review and the editors. All of us have been proud contributors to the rich intellectual condition curated by Boston Review. I just think it is really important that in this moments before our countrys more famous publications were willing to run pieces on police, prison abolition, racial and ethics of resistance and market violence, Boston Review really provided one of the major forms for these ideas to be debated with serious
Documents on out of mission, slavery and recruiting freeman freedom in the union. Army so now, i would like to turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. As a curator in the museum room, particularly the history museum, i am always struck by how art objects documents on display either Standing Firm larger historical narratives. So for those of you who missed last weeks program, lets talk for a moment about this book. A civil war in 50 objects. How did it come about and how effective do you think it is hot in the display talk about that narrative sweep in 50 objects . Well, it came about a second fast last week because louise meir asked me to undertake the project for this. It was a lucky day for me. You remember that we got to see, three times 50 objects before some conference tables in the Historical Society. I was a matter of taking representative objects which as you say stand in for big history of the civil war item by adam, personal story by personal s
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
1844, when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight, we are on location at ashland henry clays home in lexington, kentucky. For the next 90 minutes, we will explore the life and legacy of this man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. We are in henry clays parlor. Let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. Thanks for being with us. Glad to be here. Why henry clay . Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . I think a couple of counts. First of all, his famous counts, famous comment, i would rather be right than be president , still speaks to us. Its a clarion call to people across whatever were doing. Whether were in politics or Something Else, to do the right things. He also said, you know, that in a sense, that the politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country. I think that is still something we need to remember, as well. The man known as the great