Good evening everyone. On behalf of carmichaels bookstore welcome to tonights event of a can all take a moment to silence our folder would appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by kathy cassie chambers her book hill women she later went on to receive her degree from harvard law and now works with Domestic Violence survivors in kentucky. She lives in louisville with her husband. Please join me to give her a very warm welcome. [applause] thank you for being here and coming out in the rain it means so much to have people from all different phases and stages of my life. Also carmichaels please purchase books if you want to have these independent bookstores and they need your dollars to do that i would appreciate if you purchase your book i will be signing them at the signing table. So what i want to do tonight i will read excerpts of hill women and why i wrote the book and what inspired me to write it and to give you an overview of how the book came to be and into the world and after the
Good evening everyone. On behalf of carmichaels bookstore welcome to tonights event of a can all take a moment to silence our folder would appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by kathy cassie chambers her book hill women she later went on to receive her degree from harvard law and now works with Domestic Violence survivors in kentucky. She lives in louisville with her husband. Please join me to give her a very warm welcome. [applause] thank you for being here and coming out in the rain it means so much to have people from all different phases and stages of my life. Also carmichael please purchase books if you want to have these independent bookstores and they need your dollars to do that i would appreciate if you purchase your book i will be signing them at the signing table. So what i want to do tonight i will read excerpts of hill women and why i wrote the book and what inspired me to write it and to give you an overview of how the book came to be and into the world and after the i
You. The gift to me is to have the opportunity to moderate this panel. Artifacts of the civil war. Starring the scholars you see seated on the stage before you. Joan is professor of American History at Ohio State University and the author of first lady of the confederacy. And the struggle for human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War which was published last year. We will be talking a lot about things during the civil war area today and we will be using primary source analysis that was taken taken from her edited volume of essays also 2018 entitled war matters, material culture. For sale now. Or after this panel. This is the stewarthe is the author of more than 20 books on civil war topics and the last attack at gettysburg. Most recent book is fighting for atlanta tactics, terrain and trenches published by doing so you press in 2018. This is Jason Phillips the Eberly Family professor is the author of booming civil war how americans imagine the future which is publishe
Two big picture questions you listed about Historical Context and historical method. First we want you to ask the question, how do people in the civil war about era civil war era value things. Those meetings may be of the esx museum in Salem Massachusetts on a thing that is actually two things that came together some our job is to show you how we do our work. His name is Charles William merrill. A of a soldier in company the 19 massachusetts, which was in the third gate a Second Division second core of the we can use this of thet, which is a part compiled service record, these are available in the national archives. Tocan use the federal census learn, about Charles William merrill. Bibles reads, from your affectionate pass and affectionate pastor august 12, 1862. That is three days after he enlisted. From a letter charles wrote to his mother in february of 1863. Foster,when you see mr. Remember me to him. Hardly a day passes by without my thinking of him. That happened. This is a map t
Scholars you see. Joan crashinn is the author of first lady of the confederacy published by harvard, and pwar stuff, the struggle for american and Human Resources in the civil war published last year by Cambridge University press. Well talk a lot about things during the civil war era today, and well be using a primary source analysis thats taken from her edited volume of essays with unc press also 2018 titled war matters material culture in the civil war era. For sale now, or after this panel, rather. Next to joan is earl hess. He is the author of more than 20 books on civil war topics including pickets charge the last attack at gettysburg. The most recent is fighting for atlanta, tactics terrain in the civil war. Next is jason phillips, the professor of civil war studies at West Virginia university. He is the author of looming civil war how 19th century americans imagine the future published last year by Oxford University press, and die hard rebels. The confederate culture of invincea