The Civil War in 50 Objects

Author:   Harold Holzer ,  New-York Historical Society ,  Eric Foner ,  Professor of History Eric Foner (Columbia University)
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
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9780143128144


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   05 May 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Harold Holzer ,  New-York Historical Society ,  Eric Foner ,  Professor of History Eric Foner (Columbia University)
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   Penguin USA
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9780143128144


ISBN 10:   0143128140
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   05 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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In his new book, The Civil War in 50 Objects, Harold Holzer uses pictures of a fascinating menagerie of Civil War-related items to distill what historian Eric Foner calls in his introduction a conflict that permanently affected the future course of the development of the United States. Holzer handles the task with ease, showcasing the era through such artifacts as a pair of slave s shackles sized for the wrists of a child and a copy, signed by Abraham Lincoln, of the manuscript for the 13th Amendment.. The Washington Post Packaged in an unusually high-quality edition, this book is the next best thing to viewing the artifacts in person or, given Holzer s thorough explanation of the history of each object, it might be even better. The Seattle Times Holzer's essays educate and entertain, folding in noteworthy asides . Holzer pieces [the objects] together to create a compelling story of the people who lived during the bloodiest war in American history a war that jumped the boundaries of the battlefield to spark a race riot on July 10, 1863. The Chicago Tribune The Civil War in 50 Objects is a collection of deeply researched essays by the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. Mr. Holzer examines war-era artifacts culled from the collection at the New-York Historical Society, where he is a Roger Hertog Fellow, to get at a deeper truth about the single most defining event in American history. New York Observer Holzer, working through the archives of the New-York Historical Society, unearths treasures, if sometimes grim ones. Holzer s choice of objects is spot-on, and the anecdotes they occasion are even more so, particularly when he turns to little-commemorated episodes such as the valiant charge of 14 New York dragoons against a much larger Confederate force (it did not end well for the dragoons) and the effect of the Union blockade on school primers in the South. A valuable addition to the popular literature of the Civil War, well-conceived and packaged. Kirkus In his new book, The Civil War in 50 Objects, Harold Holzer uses pictures of a fascinating menagerie of Civil War-related items to distill what historian Eric Foner calls in his introduction a conflict that permanently affected the future course of the development of the United States. Holzer handles the task with ease, showcasing the era through such artifacts as a pair of slave s shackles sized for the wrists of a child and a copy, signed by Abraham Lincoln, of the manuscript for the 13th Amendment.. The Washington Post Packaged in an unusually high-quality edition, this book is the next best thing to viewing the artifacts in person or, given Holzer s thorough explanation of the history of each object, it might be even better. The Seattle Times Holzer's essays educate and entertain, folding in noteworthy asides . Holzer pieces [the objects] together to create a compelling story of the people who lived during the bloodiest war in American history a war that jumped the boundaries of the battlefield to spark a race riot on July 10, 1863. The Chicago Tribune The Civil War in 50 Objects is a collection of deeply researched essays by the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. Mr. Holzer examines war-era artifacts culled from the collection at the New-York Historical Society, where he is a Roger Hertog Fellow, to get at a deeper truth about the single most defining event in American history. New York Observer Holzer, working through the archives of the New-York Historical Society, unearths treasures, if sometimes grim ones. Holzer s choice of objects is spot-on, and the anecdotes they occasion are even more so, particularly when he turns to little-commemorated episodes such as the valiant charge of 14 New York dragoons against a much larger Confederate force (it did not end well for the dragoons) and the effect of the Union blockade on school primers in the South. A valuable addition to the popular literature of the Civil War, well-conceived and packaged. Kirkus In his new book, The Civil War in 50 Objects, Harold Holzer uses pictures of a fascinating menagerie of Civil War-related items to distill what historian Eric Foner calls in his introduction a conflict that 'permanently affected the future course of the development of the United States. Holzer handles the task with ease, showcasing the era through such artifacts as a pair of slave's shackles sized for the wrists of a child and a copy, signed by Abraham Lincoln, of the manuscript for the 13th Amendment.. -- The Washington Post Packaged in an unusually high-quality edition, this book is the next best thing to viewing the artifacts in person or, given Holzer's thorough explanation of the history of each object, it might be even better. -- The Seattle Times Holzer's essays educate and entertain, folding in noteworthy asides.... Holzer pieces [the objects] together to create a compelling story of the people who lived during the bloodiest war in American history -- a war that jumped the boundaries of the battlefield to spark a race riot on July 10, 1863. -- The Chicago Tribune The Civil War in 50 Objects is a collection of deeply researched essays by the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. Mr. Holzer examines war-era artifacts culled from the collection at the New-York Historical Society, where he is a Roger Hertog Fellow, to get at a deeper truth about the single most defining event in American history. -- New York Observer Holzer, working through the archives of the New-York Historical Society, unearths treasures, if sometimes grim ones. Holzer's choice of objects is spot-on, and the anecdotes they occasion are even more so, particularly when he turns to little-commemorated episodes such as the valiant charge of 14 New York dragoons against a much larger Confederate force (it did not end well for the dragoons) and the effect of the Union blockade on school primers in the South. A valuable addition to the popular literature of the Civil War, well-conceived and packaged. -- Kirkus


In his new book, The Civil War in 50 Objects, Harold Holzer uses pictures of a fascinating menagerie of Civil War-related items to distill what historian Eric Foner calls in his introduction a conflict that permanently affected the future course of the development of the United States. Holzer handles the task with ease, showcasing the era through such artifacts as a pair of slave s shackles sized for the wrists of a child and a copy, signed by Abraham Lincoln, of the manuscript for the 13th Amendment.. The Washington Post Packaged in an unusually high-quality edition, this book is the next best thing to viewing the artifacts in person or, given Holzer s thorough explanation of the history of each object, it might be even better. The Seattle Times Holzer's essays educate and entertain, folding in noteworthy asides . Holzer pieces [the objects] together to create a compelling story of the people who lived during the bloodiest war in American history a war that jumped the boundaries of the battlefield to spark a race riot on July 10, 1863. The Chicago Tribune The Civil War in 50 Objects is a collection of deeply researched essays by the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. Mr. Holzer examines war-era artifacts culled from the collection at the New-York Historical Society, where he is a Roger Hertog Fellow, to get at a deeper truth about the single most defining event in American history. New York Observer Holzer, working through the archives of the New-York Historical Society, unearths treasures, if sometimes grim ones. Holzer s choice of objects is spot-on, and the anecdotes they occasion are even more so, particularly when he turns to little-commemorated episodes such as the valiant charge of 14 New York dragoons against a much larger Confederate force (it did not end well for the dragoons) and the effect of the Union blockade on school primers in the South. A valuable addition to the popular literature of the Civil War, well-conceived and packaged. Kirkus


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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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