Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement LGBTQ+ Owned Marine reservist Evelyn Schecter Perlman

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

A woman with a bold idea

She had no family

This new translation by Marion Wiesel

they shouldn't give up on their dreams

Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement LGBTQ+ Owned Marine reservist Evelyn Schecter PerlmanBy 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.