ISSUED: 19 April 2021
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — Shepherd University’s George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War (GTMC) will present “Material Witness: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Artifacts and Narrating the Past” as a Facebook livestream on Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m.
The discussion will explore how everyday objects inform an understanding of the past and in what ways scholars can engage material culture to write and present meaningful narratives for public audiences.
Dr. James J. Broomall, GTMC director, will moderate a discussion among museum professionals in which they interrogate the use of objects in American social and cultural history. Panelists include Heidi Campbell-Shoaf, director and chief curator, DAR Museum; Chris Graham, curator of exhibitions, American Civil War Museum; Katherine Egner Gruber, special exhibitions curator, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; and Tyler Putnam, gallery interpretation manger, Museum of the American Revolution.
As with all the GTMC livestream programs, the video will appear on the main Facebook page and be will uploaded to YouTube for later reviewing.
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