Provided the video. Good evening everyone. It is my absolute delight and pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with my good friend and professional colleague harold. Feel free to use the question and answer button at the top of your screen and we will get to as many questions as we can towards the end. To let us turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. Lets see the cover of the book. Civil war and 50 objects. In the museum realm, particularly the history museum, the art, objects and documents on display have the power to stand in for a larger historical narrative and make so much more than what is structurally defining of that object in itself. Harold, about this book, how did this come about and how effective is it and conveying the narrative of the civil war in 50 objects . It is kind of a tactile history that brings you closer to the lived experience of the civil war. That is what made it so exciting for me, and if you are asking how it happened, i
School, we talk about issues of the 1950s at the monroe school. Kids begin to understand there is something really important about america that transpires right here. When the cspan city store was in the kansas state capital, we stopped by the Governors Mansion for a conversation with Sam Brownback about the history and politics in his state. While in topeka, we spoke with republican governor Sam Brownback inside cedarcrest Governors Mansion. Is there an era or event that interests or resonates with you . Governor brownback a lot of them do. Probably the period that is pre and right at statehood, the bleeding kansas era, is the one where kansas just had a large impact on the country and its trajectory at different points in time, but maybe no time larger than right then, so john brown comes right here, the fight over slavery, the kansas nebraska act passed, nebraska supposed to be a free state, kansas a slave state, maintain the balance of power, but in the Abolitionist Movement comes,
Bleeding kansas era, is the one where kansas just had a large impact on the country and its trajectory at different points in time, but maybe no time larger than right then, so john brown comes right here, the fight over slavery, the kansas nebraska act passed, nebraska supposed to be a free state, kansas a slave state, maintain the balance of power, but in the Abolitionist Movement comes, and says will not let kansas be a slave state, and they start sending people here from ohio and the northeast. They did not come in here to farm, that is what they did, they cannot hear to fight against slavery, so you have the battle of the civil wars, the battle of blackjack, from here come about 30 miles east, youve got these irregular battles between abolitionists, free stators, slave stators, 40 guys from generally missouri or another state that was proslavery at that time, and in the free stators fighting on the other side. It is the beginning of the civil war that happens here, which is great
Noel Ignatiev grew up in Philadelphia in the 1940s. He wrote in his memoir, Acceptable Men, that “from the time I was a youngster I knew I wanted to dedicate my life to revolution.” His parents had both been communists and he inherited the family business, traversing over his lifetime a variety of revolutionary groupings, from Stalinist to proto-anarchist. A man ahead of his time, he maintained a steady focus on the fight against racial oppression.
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