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Button at the bottom of your screen. Well get to questions after our conversation. To lets turn our attention some objects that help us describe the civil war. The history museum, objects do a lot of heavy lifting and standing in for a larger historical narrative be the conditions of the objects themselves. Lets talk about this book, the civil war in 50 objects. Tell us about it and how 50 objects can tell the complex story of the civil war. Its extraordinarily when we undertook this project 18 years ago, it was difficult to find just 50 objects although we think they tell the story of the war. As you tell the story of arts theobjects standing in story about race, militarization, soldier life, civilian life. Its also a story about connecting collecting and the New York Historical society as the trove of this cities lower from the revolutionary period to today. So i think its a double story. Lets start with her objects of the evening. Remarkably topic is aligned with current events. The
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The opportunity to speak with my good friend and colleague harold holzer. Button on the top of your screen we will get to his many questions as we can toward the end. Attention to some objects that help us describe. He civil war realm, art,m objects, and documents on display have the power to stand in for a larger historical about our but what book . How did this come about and how effective is it in conveying the truth of the civil war in 50 objects . History thatctile brings you closer to the lived experience of the civil war. That is what made it so exciting for me. If you are asking how it happened, it happened because of lori. They asked me if i would be interested in doing this kind of article for publication, and she in and i will put some of the objects i have in mind on a few tables in the Administrative Offices of the historical society. What i saw during that first we will be discussing these objects. One of them was a relic of Abraham Lincolns presidency that i had never he