The unrest after the countrys disputed president ial election as protests there enter a new phase with demonstrators giving hugs and kisses to troops who lowered their shields. Hello there midday here in moscow good afternoon from russia the muslims kevin oh youre watching r. T. International the weekend 1st this scandal over covert 19 testing is rocked the german state of bavaria some 900 travelers returning to the region tested positive but they were left to bolivias to that fact because the government failed to deliver the results heres our europe correspondent peter all of a picking up the story. Theres been a huge blunder in the german states if the varia with 844000 corona test a backlog 900. 00 of those still waiting for their results and known to have tested positive the man in charge of germanys largest state says hes sorry for the delay is due to example dot security like the entire State Government is sorry that these mistakes happened both the minister and also me personall
Values swim post sanctions on the heavy Police Crackdown in response to the unrest stuff in the countrys disputed president ial election as protester enter a new phase 2 with demonstrators giving hugs and kisses to troops who lowered their shield. Their 1 pm here and i was so good afternoon from russia my names kevin owen youre watching r. T. International broadcasting around the world this week and 1st this scandal over covert 19 testing has rocked the german state of the very a we can report some 900 travelers returning to the region tested positive but they were left to bolivia to that fact because the government failed to deliver the results heres our europe correspondent peter all of picking up the story. Theres been a huge blunder in the states if the very a with a. 44000. 00 corona test a backlog 900. 00 of those still waiting for their results and known to have tested positive the man in charge of germanys largest state says hes sorry for the delay is due to example dot secure
Of the Newyork Historical Society top of the articles in the joint publication. A civil war in 50. Objects they risks they discuss objects civil war technicality, includings will secret war codes. The new york Historical Society provided the video. So harold, weve been talking in the series about the power of objects being touchstones and historical event, being conduits to understanding the past. Its a thrill and extort a experience being historian in new york historian and working along these treasures and using them in my exhibitions. Lets talk about a second for the inspiration for this program a civil war in 50 objects. I can 50 objects tells such a sweeping . Story we so after cells that question often when we were whittling down the list and it was so much to choose from. I guess the way we did it as i recall, his first we discussed the medium of the object. We wanted, photographs paintings, objects, relics and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war. First year
Technology. This conversation took place on line due to the coronavirus pandemic and the New York Historical society provided the video. Harold, weve been talking in this series about the power of objects to be touchstones of historical events, to be con duties for understanding the past. Its a thrill and an extraordinary experience to be a historian at New York Historical where i work alongside these treasures and use them in my exhibitions. Lets talk for a second about the inspiration for this program, the book civil war in 50 objects. How can 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 way we did it, as i recall, is first we discussed the medium of the object, we wanted photographs, paintings, documents, relics, and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war. First the year leading up to it and then 1861, 2, 3, 4, 5. By the time we shifted through the
We used to ask ourselves that question. First we discussed the medium of the object. We wanted photographs, paintings, documents, relics, and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war, 1851 to 1865. By the time we sifted through the criteria, we thought we had 50 objects out there that met those requirements. It was truly an embarrassment and it was hard to whittle them down, for sure. [laughter] that is definitely true. Tonight we will be discussing two objects that are considered technology during the civil war. You can see the images of those. We have one from 1861 and a half model of the monitor of 1862. Lets consider the two part object. This is in the papers of Alexander Robert chisholm, bert born in 1834, died 1910. He was a stockbroker, a merchant, a railroad investor, and he died during the gilded age in new york city where he had grown up. Theis youth, he served on confederate side of the civil war. Can you tell us about his background . Carolina born in south ,