Origins of the Term Contraband often used for slaves in the civil war army. Thank you so much. As we reconvene, i wanted to share another thought with you and that is if you are starting to kind of put it together. When we began imagining a peoples contest, our exhibition, the Core Exhibition for the american civil war museum, one of things that the americans shared this narrative the way that people lived it, meaning that there would be difficult choices made and sometimes the people would change their mind, and it meant that this is not just a story about the military and not just a story about political action and not just a story about social consequence. People lived it all of those things, every single day for the years of the war. And so, fortunately enough again, the scholars who join us today, i hope that you are beginning to see the connectiveness, because at the end of the day, our work, the Museums Work is about helping people have usable history that they can walk into the
To kind of put it together. When we began imagining a peoples contest, our exhibition, the Core Exhibition for the american civil war museum, one of things that the americans shared this narrative the way that people lived it, meaning that there would be difficult choices made and sometimes the people would change their mind, and it meant that this is not just a story about the military and not just a story about political action and not just a story about social consequence. People lived it all of those things, every single day for the years of the war. And so, fortunately enough again, the scholars who join us today, i hope that you are beginning to see the connectiveness, because at the end of the day, our work, the Museums Work is about helping people have usable history that they can walk into their own worlds with the questions they have and find answers that are meaningful for making choices today. Now, next up, we have dr. Cassandra newby alexandra. Most of us in civil war stud
To kind of put it together. When we began imagining a peoples contest, our exhibition, the Core Exhibition for the american civil war museum, one of things that the americans shared this narrative the way that people lived it, meaning that there would be difficult choices made and sometimes the people would change their mind, and it meant that this is not just a story about the military and not just a story about political action and not just a story about social consequence. People lived it all of those things, every single day for the years of the war. And so, fortunately enough again, the scholars who join us today, i hope that you are beginning to see the connectiveness, because at the end of the day, our work, the Museums Work is about helping people have usable history that they can walk into their own worlds with the questions they have and find answers that are meaningful for making choices today. Now, next up, we have dr. Cassandra newby alexandra. Most of us in civil war stud
When we began imagining a peoples contest our Core Exhibition for the american civil War Museum, one of the things that we understood was that we had to create an experience for our visitors that shared this narrative with people loved it, meaning that there would be difficult choices made, and sometimes people would change their mind. It meant that this was just not a story about the military, not just a story about political action, or a story about social consequence. People lived all of those things every single day. Fourth years of the war. And so, the scholars that join us today, i hope you are beginning to see this connectedness. Because at the end of the day, the Museums Work is about helping people have usable history that they can walk into their own worlds with the questions that they have and financers that are meaningful for making choices today. Now, next up, we have dr. Can sandra newbie alexander. Now most of us in civil war studies, we absolutely got to take a deep bre
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