On this episode of Our American Stories Marshall Field's favorite gift wasn't the one that caused his name to be forever associated with Chicago's premiere museum or even his massive chain of department stores he built after years of trial error and fire--but a small library bearing his name in the small town of Conway Massacussets--the hometown he left in search of prosperity Hillsdale professor Kelly Scott Franklin tells the story of how one of America's foremost literary figures was a volunteer on both sides of our nation's Civil War Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate Time Codes
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