Objects of Memory: Washington and Material Culture

As part of the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolutionan, the founding of the United States, and Mass 250, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series.

Consider how Americans understand the material culture of Washington and the Revolution, including art and clothing, featuring Zara Anishanslin, author of The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution and Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware and Erica E. Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston