Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Broschiertes Buch

Between Home and the Front

Civil War Letters of the Walters Family

Herausgeber: Paone, Thomas J; National Postal Museum

Beschreibung

Between Home and the Front offers not only a unique first-person account from those that experienced the Civil War but an annotation in meticulous detail to provide valuable historical context for the events, people, and material culture described in the letters.

Autor

Lynn Heidelbaugh, curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, specializes in the history of the US Postal Service. She has published essays and created several exhibitions about military mail, including "Letters Home" in Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection, and the exhibition My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I, for which she received a Smithsonian Secretary's Award for Research in 2018. Thomas Paone curates the lighter-than-air collection, including balloons, blimps, and airships, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Paone's research focuses on ballooning in the Civil War, as well as the use of airships and blimps in America. He is coauthor of Milestones of Flight: The Epic of Aviation with the National Air and Space Museum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780253062970
• ISBN-10: 0253062977
• Artikelnr.: 62645920