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Valerie paleo of the New York Historical society talk about artifacts featured in their joint publication, the civil war in 50 objects. In this program, they discuss objects related to soldiers, uniforms, and accoutrements. This conversation took place online at the New York Historical society provided the video. So now, civil war fashion. This series has been investigating the power of objects to be emblematic of historical events and to help us understand the passed as a historian, i work alongside these treasures every day. Its my great privilege to use them in exhibitions, as well. But har...

Publication. Discussing objects relating to soldiers uniforms. This took place online and the New York Historical society provide d the video. So now, civil war fashion. And to help us understand the past as a historian at New York Historical, i work alongside these treasures every day and it is my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. But harold, lets tell our audience about the inspiration for our program, the book, civil war in 50 objects. How can only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . We used to ask ourselves that question often when we were whittling down the list and ...

Washington, d. C. , across Lafayette Square at the white house with the slavery and the president s neighborhood. As we begin tonights program please welcome the 15th rector of st. Johns church, reverend john fisher. [ applause ] welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that th...

An a ante bell um. Please welcome the 15th director of st. Johns church. Welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am thrilled to our friends at the White House Historical association asked you to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share history about this historic room, so i will share that this church was completed in 1816 not only did he decide this church, he was working on rebuilding the white house he belt the Decatur House, and if you go and sign the Decatur House, you look up, its a similar it was built as a greek cross, so an even four sides. Just ...

Such a sweeping story . Harold we have tack till objects, images, but probably as you force us to describe this in civil war fashion, ill get that later. The hardest thing is to preserve, you know better than most, for textiles and the objects were going to discuss today, some of them are really extraordinary and n terms of how they survived. Valerie absolutely. And without further ado, lets get to our four things this evening. We have a military button, and a drum. Very interesting, and fashion, maybe, maybe not. But in aggregate, they do tell the story of uniform courage, outfitting the civi...