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They said mr. President , what do you think, and he said, well, it reminds me of the story of the young woman who put on her stockings and she looked up and said, i think theres something in it. I dont know if they got this, you know, theres something in it, but they went to work immediately. They took that to be a yes. Yeah, thats a go, but its a good thing because the confederates are, you know, building this ship, so they rushed back to new york with a model, and they get to work on the actual ship. The image that sort of shows the launch of the monitor . Yeah. And its, you know, i feel a c...

Publication the civil war in 50 objects. In this program they discuss documents related to slavery, abolition and recruising freedman to the union army. So now i would like to turn our to some objects to help us describe the civil war. As a curator in the museum realm, particularly the history museum, i am always struck by how art objects, documents on display, have the power to stand in for larger historical narratives, than what they are structurally defined by in an object. For those of you who missed last weeks program, lets talk about this book. How did it come about and how effective do ...

Technology. This conversation took place on line due to the coronavirus pandemic and the New York Historical society provided the video. Harold, weve been talking in this series about the power of objects to be touchstones of historical events, to be con duties for understanding the past. Its a thrill and an extraordinary experience to be a historian at New York Historical where i work alongside these treasures and use them in my exhibitions. Lets talk for a second about the inspiration for this program, the book civil war in 50 objects. How can 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . We used ...

Itself. So, for those of you that missed last week program, lets talk about this book, the civil war and 50 objects. How effective do you think it is at conveying the narrative sweep of the civil war in only 50 objects . Well, it came about, as i confessed last week, because louise asked me to undertake the project for the Historical Society. It was a lucky day for me. And youll remember that we got to see, i dont know, three times 50 objects, arrayed before us on some conference tables in the Historical Society. So, it was a matter of picking representative objects, exciting objects, which, a...

Now recall, back in the cares act there was an extension of a federal supplement to Unemployment Insurance. So we put in place a 600 federal benefit on top of the state benefit. At the time there were concerns about whether that would lead to people on Unemployment Insurance getting more money than they would at work, and there was actually an amendment here on the house floor, on the senate floor regarding that. And although it did not pass, i think pretty much every republican supported it with that concern. In fact, thats whats happened. If you look at whats happened over the past couple of...