The National Archives hosted the event in conjunction with their centennial exhibit, rightfully hers. American women and the vote. Tonights discussion is part of a series of programs related to our recently opened exhibit, rightfully herself. American women and the vote. Rightfully hers commemorates the anniversary and tells of womens struggles for Voting Rights towards equal citizenship, explores how women across the spectrum of race, ethnicity and class advanced the cause of suffrage and follows struggles for Voting Rights beyond 1920. The decadeslong fight for the vote in the 19th and early 20th century engaged large numbers of women in the political process. A critical part of that campaign was getting their message out to the nation and shifting Public Opinion to support their cause. Tonight well learn about the Suffrage Movement the communication machine and how it contributed to the movements success. To introduce our panelists id like to welcome nancy tate to the stage. Since 2
We have a panel called history in the headlines. Sure that we are plugged into these larger issues. It is a burning issue. Certainly the confederate statues. We have the roundtable of scholars from 2017, published in 2019. We wanted to address something that would the contemporary and crash. Discussed silent contemporary and fresh. We discussed silent sam, a statue at the university of north carolina, the board of overseers taking the position against removing it, more protest, and eventually the sale is a really interesting issue, money being donated for the removal. This happened at vanderbilt as well. You had a confederate memorial hall. They paid for the direction of the hall. When it was determined by the university to remove it nearly a century later, you pay the people who erected it, who named it, for that privilege. So now we have the irony of hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars being given to united daughters of the confederacy, which areeties promoting often a very pa
And this program, they to scouts hurt created before and after the war including paintings of Abraham Lincoln, the irish brigade, and battle scenes. This conversation took place on line and the New York Historic Society provided the video. We are continuing our conversation that argues that objects have the power to convey historical events and to help us understand the passed. This idea inspired your book, the civil war in 50 objects. This evening, we will be looking at five objects from the book and related exhibition grouped around the theme of the art of war. These works are all very different and have very different background stories. We have the return of the 69th irish regiment, a caricature of lincoln writing the emancipation proclamation, the lincoln family by carpenter, victors painting an episode of war, as well as some prison art. First, lets look at the relationship between war and art, harold. Did war stimulate art in america . Did our change the romantic image of war .
Is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our cities to her visits. This is a contested claim that we argue with the state of georgia about. Both have a good claim to make. Iny received their charter 1785. Uncs charter came later but unc was the first to open an already graduated a couple classes before georgia. They were founded at the same time, so when this area was selected as the site of the , there was no town or village here. There war few neighboring farms. There was an anglican chapel but there was no town to speak of. So on the day that they laid the cornerstone for the First University building, they also had an auction of town lots. So that they understood that if the university was going to succeed, there needed to be a town around it to support it to provide businesses, places for people to live. So the town of Chapel Hill University were born on the same day the university was chartered. The university was chartered in 1789. The ground broke
And he didnt and he didnt. Less move on to our next artistic work. This is an etching by ladelbert work in 1963. Were in the second year where of the civil war. Its getting difficult to circulate battlefield heroes or triumphs and thats for one practical reason, most of the abledbodied artists were fighting in the war as soldiers. So this is an interesting thing to concept as far as sculptural monuments, there were none done at the time of the civil war, no artistic works. Tell us about the artist who created this etching. Hes also an american borne in bulgaria. Unlike most of the germans that came to the United States after the revolutions of the 1840 failed, he was an racist, not antislavery man. He settled in baltimore. The surroundings and environment make the man in a way. He was a dentist by trade and was obviously a very gifted draftsman. And he made these series of antiunion pro confederate etchings throughout the civil war and published them secretly with a fake london copyrig