intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q&a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and that s great. of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. we re really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we don t get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether there s anyone out there at all. so please do keep those. some responses coming. we really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. so our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone who s attended
war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q&a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and that s great. of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. we re really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we don t get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether there s anyone out there at all. so please do keep those. some responses
intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
Negro soldier toca the film was directed by arguably the top director in hollywood at the time. In the film they covered africanamerican military service in this country from the 1770s to world war ii. There was no mention, no image of a single soldier or sailor. 10 of the union army. African made of 1 of the northern population. Highest awarded but not a single mention. Why . The story was indeed a lost story. There was active suppression of the story. When we talk about who suppress the story he will hear it was the lost cause. Theres a southern Propaganda Campaign but sought to make it appear that the war was not fought over slavery and a part of it was suppressing the africanamerican story. If it was the southerners and the lost cause, i do not think they could cap get out of that. Ar Department Film this is from our elite universities. A lost story. They were suppressing the story. It was won by a union, a team of persons of africanamerican descent. Theres a plus, not an or. Thats