Gould shaw, one of the civil wars first africanamerican units. The work specifically commemorates the july 18th, 1863 storming of Fort Wagner in which onethird of the 51sts men or officers were killed or wounded. Tell it with pride seeks to shine a spotlight on the group. Good morning. Im sarah greenough, the senior curator of photographs here at the national gallery of art, and i am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augusta Saint God dins began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially he was going to take it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. If you look at some of the examples in the case behind you, youll see one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict Colonel Robert Gould Shaw on a horse. That kind of depiction is often referred to as the man on the mount. However, colonel Shaws Family objected to that. They shout such a depiction was too grand a way to show their son. He was, after all, only 25 years old when he was killed at the battle of Fort Wagner. They th
Task of going after gary. But i like to first thank carry, for inviting me and four will for accommodating all of my the and being so gracious. And to think id like to thank liz, who is my former adviser. And gary gallagher, who is a mentor of mine for not only having here at the conference, but also just for years and years of mentoring. But im going to talk about or i will begin with a battle that gary does not think is important. Because it is in North Carolina. The to be fair dont think many people think the battle of new bern is important. Or significant. So i dont think hes alone. Nor am i saying the western theater is more important in the eastern theater i just wanted to say that oh front and make we can change conversation a bit. So here i will begin. On the morning of March 14th 1862, general john gray foster had led burn side troops, to new bern North Carolina. Fosters troops opened fire, and brigadier general or an bryan branch, would incite men and looked at the strategic
The areas for battlefields, but his real passion. Is telling the story of the united States Colored troops, hes really made this a Passion Project has helped cofound a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd united States Color troops the unit that first encountered robert e. Lees army here in the eastern theater in the summer of 1864, and hes also done some work with this in massachusetts guys, that folks maybe have heard of who have done a little work in the Movie Glory who are those folks right stuart is is tireless in telling the story of the united States Color troops men who found the inspiration to fight for their own freedom and in very literal sense gave a new birth of freedom and new meaning to the civil war. So its my Delight And Pleasure to introduce my friend steward henderson. Thank you, chris. Good morning. Chris makes everything seem like it was such a long time, but i would tell you if you saw a picture of me then i looked 30 years younger. But im a living
Our featured Speaker Today is katherine jellison catherine. Is professor of history at Ohio University where she teaches courses on us womens and gender history. Shes published a number of books and authored of biography on Jacqueline Kennedy in the Blackwell Companion to first ladies. Shes a frequent frequently appears in print and on Television And Radio as a commentator on first lady is in the role in us politics and history and that is why she is here Today Katherine are you with us . Im here patrick. Thank you for the nice introduction. Excellent. How are you doing . And hows that . Athens is what right now raindrops are falling on my window, but at least not on my head, so i think im ready to go whenever you are. Terrific. Why never got a great presentation so im gonna pass the screen to you and take it over. Okay. Lets see. Here we go. I think oh. Yes. Um as patrick said i am a historian here at patricks alma mater. Ohio university and i was very pleased when patrick invited me
Photographs here at the national gallery of art and i am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augusta saint gardens began to work on this memorial in 1883 and initially he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself and if you look at some of the examples we have in the case behind you youll see that one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict Colonel Robert Gould Shaw on a horse that kind of depiction is often sort of referred to as the man on the mount. However, colonel Shaws Family objected to that. They thought such was too grand away. To show their young son. He was after all only 25 years old when he was killed at the battle of Fort Wagner and they thought that that kind of depiction was better reserved for generals and not a colonel like shaw moreover. Shaws family felt that it would be more appropriate to show him with his troops. So saying gods went back to the Drawing Board quite literally and came up with this conception with the idea of putting sha