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Federal troops and brutally attack thed the citys africanamerican residents. In the century and a half since the new york city draft riots, numerous psychological lahrs, popular scholars, popular books and articlesre their rated and examined the significant events that comprised the largest civil insurrection this u. S. Hisry and and most of these works have included illustrations of the violence that were published in its immediate aftermath in the ekly newspapers. None of these many studies or popular accounts have used these imagess much more than endorsement for or reiteration of their text. Certainly, they have not served as evidence to be value waited in their own evaluated in their own right. Illustrated newspapers covered the riots. The three American Pictorial weeklies dominated the coverage. They were supplemented by three brish pictorial papers and two french pubcationings. In all, some 80 engravings of varying size, detail and quality depicted the unprecedented events. When
We are advantage evangelists on behalf of the study of history. And one of our judges in a conversation today began talking about a High School Teacher he had had when he was 14 or 15 years old. And that teacher, and teachers of adolescents are the Unsung Heroes and heroines of our profession. Thats when you plant an abiding, lifelong affection and even addiction to history. One to have historical muses has been sadly, neglected in the American Academy the american university, for a generation. And one of the ideas of our founders, one of whom i will introduce to you in a moment was that something that the h. F. Guggenheim family could go to arrest could do to arrest this malady and reverse it, is support an annual prize for the best work of military history in english during the preceding year. Finish and that is why we are here this evening. History, as written by practitioners of it who have produced works that indicate enlightened research, who write gracefully, who have in the bac