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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 cultu...

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...

I mean do you read about him today i guess the first question id ask could he be elected president today . I think so. Thats really the challenge of the book, whether we can choose someone who is as principled as he is as president. He did not believe coolidge who was president from 23 to 29 that perception is reality which he thought principle is reality. The challenge for us is we just have to have someone who is good looking and speaks well and good salesman or someone who has good principles. I think we can. We deceive ourselves we need looks alone. Who did he put around himself . Very imp...

On autobiography. The book examines the differences in writing styles between men and women in autobiographical works. This encore presentation is just under an hour. Cspan jill ker conway, author of when memory speaks reflections on autobiography, where did you get the idea for this . Guest well, i have been traveling around with my publicist from alfred knopf and giving readings from some of my earlier volumes and memoirs, and i started to explain to the audience before i read something about the genre, something about its history and where i thought my own work fitted in with it. And the au...

The appearance of integrity. But coolidge also prized respect for harding. Those people werent condemned yet, innocent until Proven Guilty and continuity for the people in market. So he kept the cabinet for a while. Eventually some people left. The secretary of the interior left. Coolidge did have an investigation. He named a Bipartisan Team to look into corruption in the harding administration. But he thought first of continuity when he became president in august of 1923. Who was the secretary of the treasury . That would be Andrew Mellon who was his and hardings before hoovers after. He is l...