material culture of the civil war and most especially clothing and that s the subject of a book she s working on right now clothing in the american civil war era one. i m very much looking forward to reading when it comes out. and we re gonna get a taste for scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material level at the level of material culture. how do people experience and negotiate the effects of war in their everyday lives how they wage war against one another both on and off the battlefield. what were the racial and gender dimensions of t
scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material level at the level of material culture. how do people experience and negotiate the effects of war in their everyday lives how they wage war against one another both on and off the battlefield. what were the racial and gender dimensions of that experience? how did women and men have to change in the midst of war? so as i began this research, i repeatedly encountered incidents related to clothing from the remark from the remarkable to the mundane. the more archival sources. i read the more clothing
being with us. thank you so much for having me. i m director of the virginia center for civil war studies. so our first speaker tonight and i ll just introduce each speaker in turn right before they speak. so our first speaker is dr. sarah jones wixel and she and her phd from the university of chicago. she s now the director of research and publications at the american historical association in washington dc. she s also an expert in the material culture of the civil war and most especially clothing and that s the subject of a book she s working on right now clothing in the american civil war era one. i m very much looking forward to reading when it comes out. and we re gonna get a taste for scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen re
scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material level at the level of material culture. how do people experience and negotiate the effects of war in their everyday lives how they wage war against one another both on and off the battlefield. what were the racial and gender dimensions of that experience? how did women and men have to change in the midst of war? so as i began this research, i repeatedly encountered incidents related to clothing from the remark from the remarkable to the mundane. the more archival sources. i read the more clothing
united states. east of chicago. have you been destroyed? mm. initially the plan to attack the u. s. l was code named trojan over time it evolved into pincher bush, lack of crankshaft, half moon, cold wheel, off tackle, and sherry, a december 19th, 1949 saw the adoption of the best known plan to wipe out the soviet mm. operation dropshot, date of attack. january the 1st 1957 the plan outlines the complete annihilation of the usa. so under the democratic guise of liberating the nations from communism. that those very nations would be wiped out along with communism. in the 1st phase of operation dropped shot in visits, dropping 300 nuclear and 250000 tons of conventional bombs on the side of the union . in 100 soviet cities were pre selected as targets. the 2nd phase, the ussr is attacked by 250 nato divisions. soviet thought so taken over by nato naval forces. the 3rd phase annihilating the u. s. i saw wiping it off the wild map to that in all new weapon types that to be deploy