Valerie paleo of the New York Historical society talk about artifacts featured in their joint publication, the civil war in 50 objects. In this program, they discuss objects related to soldiers, uniforms, and accoutrements. This conversation took place online at the New York Historical society provided the video. So now, civil war fashion. This series has been investigating the power of objects to be emblematic of historical events and to help us understand the passed as a historian, i work alongside these treasures every day. Its my great privilege to use them in exhibitions, as well. But harold, lets talk to the audience about what the inspiration for our program is, the civil war in 50 objects. How can only 50 objects still such a sweeping story . As the cover shows, weve managed to marry media, message, tactile objects, images, but probably as you describe this is fashion, i will get you for that one. The hardest thing is to preserve, and you know better than most, textiles. The ob
Freeman talks about her life in writing, she appeared in her monthly call in program in depth in september 2019. Joanne freeman, youre gonna hate this opening question. [laughter] trace the arc of our nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow. I wont use the word hate. [laughter] thats a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im gonna do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning straight to we could even go past the civil war you are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods i tend to focus on really more the early part of the earth and its the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republic beyond that there was a lot of open grounds theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the onation is, how it functions, the tone of the governme
Publication. Discussing objects relating to soldiers uniforms. This took place online and the New York Historical society provide d the video. So now, civil war fashion. And to help us understand the past as a historian at New York Historical, i work alongside these treasures every day and it is my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. But harold, lets tell our audience about the inspiration for our program, the book, civil war in 50 objects. How can only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . We used to ask ourselves that question often when we were whittling down the list and there was so much to choose from. The hardest things to preserve are textiles. Some are really extraordinary in terms of how they survived. Absolutely. We have a uniform. Some military buttons. Foot locker and a drum. Very interesting. Fashion, maybe, maybe not. But in aggregate, they tell the story of uniform courage outfitting the civil war soldier. Lets start with this uniform. So, surviving un
Uniforms and acute ma. So, civil war fashion. This series has been investigating the power of objects to be emblem mattic of historical events. I work alongside these treasures every day and it is my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. But, harold, lets tell the audience a bit about the inspiration for the program, the book civil war in 50 objects. How can only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . Well, as the cover shows, we managed to vary messages, tactile objects, images. Probably as you force us to describe this as civil war fashion ill get you for that later the hardest thing is to preserve the textiles. The objects were going to discuss today, some of them are really extraordinary in term of how theyve survived. Yeah, absolutely. And without further ado, lets get to our four things this evening. Right. We have uniform, military buttons, a foot locker, and a drum. Very interesting. Fashion . Maybe, maybe not. But an aggregate, they tell the story of uniform cou
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