Description - The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer
The perfect successor to Viking's runaway bestseller, The History of the World in 100 Objects--an all-star cast of historians commenting on the fifty objects that tell the story of the Civil War, from one of the country's premier history museums.
The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War
From a soldier's diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown's pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War.
Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New-York Historical Society's acclaimed collection. A daguerreotype of an elderly, dignified ex-slave; a soldier's footlocker still packed with its contents; Grant's handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox-the stories these objects tell are rich, poignant, sometimes painful, and always fascinating. They illuminate the conflict from all perspectives-Union and Confederate, military and civilian, black and white, male and female-and give readers a deeply human sense of the war.
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