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and the experience of its crew aboard one of the first ironclads. this is about 50 minutes. >> i've got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be a part of what we're doing today. and david mendel has been a friend of the "uss monitor" for quite some time. and i'm so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand-new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i've got to admit i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mendel is a historian...

and then the armed version, which is called reaper. and all the different technologies about it. you see this all the time on the news, and i've had students now do dissertations about it, about what does it mean that these people are fighting in afghanistan and killing our enemies from air-conditioned, darkened trailers in las vegas? and how do they feel about it? and what do they say about it? and what is their reaction to it? one of my students who just finished his dissertation last summer was an air force fighter pilot, and he went in and did an anthropological study of these re...

spacious and comfortable. it looks as though you might as well have a gymnasium here and a beautiful galley here and the lovely ward room, which actually was pretty lovely. that's the one part of it that may be accurate, although not quite that big, and everybody enjoying a grand time below decks. looking again at the cross section, all these questions become very interesting when you start to open up and look inside this tin can and say what is going on in there. well, one thing that was the life below decks. very simplified geometric representation here was pretty intense and prett...

years about the monitor was the work that they've done here in the museum with children. and in what is now the monitor and pop culture gallery, a few years ago was basically full of children's art about the "monitor"" versus the "merrimack" battle. and it was just amazing to see how this ship which still speaks to me after i wrote a book about b. it ten years ago and clearly speaks to all the people here in this room still in different ways speaks to children who are learning about it. and you found in these images everything from -- some kids just drew sailing boats, didn't want to...

be on the deck up above. and keeler would describe lying in his bed looking up at the skylight. and the water would roll in and then roll out. and there would be fish swimming around in the skylight. it reminds you of something from jules vern's 20,000 leagues underneath the sea. it mentions the monitor in its first page. so very much a model for what later becomes a modern vision of a submarine home. again, the turret is of course the iconic picture of what the monitor was all about. there are many other interesting novel design features worthy of note and worthy of study. but the t...