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As a curator in the Museum Room particularly the history museum, i am always struck by how art objects, documents on display have the power to stand in for larger historical narratives, convey so much more than what they are structurally defined by the object itself. For those of you who missed last Weeks Program lets talk about this book, the civil war and 50 objects. Well, it came about as i confessed last week because louise asked me to undertake the project for the historical society. Youll remember we got to see three times 50 objects already before us on some conference tables in the historical society, so it was a matter of picking representative objects, exciting objects, which as you say stand in for the big history of the civil War Item by item, personal story by personal story and it was remarkable at the end that we constructed the history of the war from the Abolitionist Movement to the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. It was fun to work with you on that project as
New-yorkUnited-statesGeorgiaWashingtonKentuckyDelawareWhitehouseDistrict-of-columbiaIllinoisMarylandLondonCity-ofHighlight the 16th president s Life Career and legacy. All right. As youll see in your Program Stacy prep. Mcdermott was scheduled to give the or give remarks about the hey Nicolet Dissertation Award and unfortunately stacy was unable to be with us today. So youre stuck with me again. So like again Michelle Crowell Chairperson of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Institute. So im what im going to read are stacys remarks slightly edited. As a Board Member of the Abraham Lincoln Institute. I am delighted to share the news of the 2019. Hey Nicolet Dissertation Award each year the Abraham Lincoln Institute in partnership with the Abraham Lincoln Association in springfield, illinois presents this award to a dissertation that breaks new ground in Lincoln Scholarship. We look for dissertations that offer fresh interpretive approaches to lincolns Life Career and Legacy Or Legacy that examines new evidence or that reevaluates old themes in exciting new ways. For dissertations this year drew exte
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