Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement LGBTQ+ Owned By Martin Greenfield

By Martin Greenfield

A woman with a bold idea

During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning

She had no family

Marine reservist Evelyn Schecter Perlman put aside her career as a legal secretary and warned her older sisters

Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement LGBTQ+ Owned By Martin GreenfieldBy Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra (editors) Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock in trade. What new insights can historians gain about the past by thinking about things? A central object (and consequence) of modern warfare is the radical destruction and transformation of the material world.