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The History Hour, Episode Eight: Saving the Union and Ending the Civil War─At the Battlefield and Ballot Box

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Program date: July 9, 2020
New-York Historical’s Chief Historian Valerie Paley and historian Harold Holzer discuss items from Holzer’s book and New-York Historical's accompanying exhibition, The Civil War in 50 Objects. This final episode in the series features the following objects: the Projection of the November 1864 Election, the Terms of Surrender, and framed leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier.