The Civil War in 50 Objects
The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom 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 obj…
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Weitere Autoren: New-York Historical Society / Foner, Eric
- ISBN: 978-0-14-312814-4
- EAN: 9780143128144
- Produktnummer: 17085711
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Über den Autor
Harold Holzer has written or edited more than forty books on Lincoln and the Civil War era. He is currently a senior vice president at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society. He lives in New York City. The New-York Historical Society is the oldest museum in New York City, and one of the country's pre-eminent cultural institutions.
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