Object of History Podcast The Mortal & Everlasting Life of Frederic Augustus James, Now Available
The Object of History podcast Season 3, Episode 7, The Mortal & Everlasting Life of Frederic Augustus James: Enduring Life behind the Deadline of a Civil War POW Camp focuses on the prisoner-of-war experience of James and other Civil War prisoners like him. In this episode, the MHS Director of the Library, Elaine Heavey, introduces James’s diary and letters held by the MHS, historian and author of Living by Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons, Evan Kutzler, explains more about the prisoner of war experience, and the MHS Curator of Art & Artifacts Emerita, Anne Bentley, who describes a few objects in the MHS collection created by prisoners of war or taken from prisons during the Civil War.
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