6 SPRING 2019
ES N E C S E H T BEHIND
IT STARTED WITH A PHONE CALL Waite Rawls and I were invited to a meeting to discuss a bold idea. The question put before us was this: What would happen if our two museums - the Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar - came together to create a new organization to rival all others
DESIGN OF THE NEW ACWM BRINGS THE COMPLEX CONFLICT TO LIFE BY STEVE HALL A “typical” Civil War Museum may focus primarily on third-person information about battles, with very little about civilian life, usually even less about African Americans during the conflict. Artifacts may be presented with little context. Photographs often show people frozen forever in stiff black and white; they appear to
