Teen and Adult Program: Remembering the American Revolution: An Exhibition

Speaker:  Heidi Campbell-Shoaf, Director/Chief Curator, DAR Museum

 12 pm --1 pm

Free, Pre-registration encouraged due to limited seating

PG Assembly

Register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuesday-talk-remembering-the-american-revolution-an-exhibition-tickets-18635123155

How do you express the concept of memory? How does memory shape our understanding of history and the country? Interpreting a concept with three dimensional objects can be challenging; examining historical expressions of that concept requires looking at things in a different light.  The American Revolution has a definite presence in our culture, due in large part to the actions and activities of the three generations that followed the creation of the United States. Learn how objects, things that were saved and things that were created new, played and continued to play an influential role in how we, as a culture, identify with the Revolution. Discover how the objects on display in Remembering the American Revolution 1776-1890 came together at the DAR Museum, and why particular items were chosen for the exhibition.

Speaker Bio: Heidi Campbell-Shoaf is Director/Chief Curator at DAR Museum in Washington, DC. She holds an MA in History and Public History from Kent State University where her studies focused on 19th century American social history and women’s history. Her museum background includes work in traditional gallery-based institutions as well as living history and historic house museums. Prior coming to the DAR Museum she was executive director of the Historical Society of Frederick County in Maryland and worked for the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, as well as the Office of the Historian General at the NSDAR.

In addition to her museum work, Heidi is an adjunct professor at Hood College teaching history and museum studies courses, and she provides museum consultant services to a number of organizations and institutions.

 

DAR Museum’s free programming is made possible by the generosity of DAR members and donors.

(*Program is related to our current exhibition Remembering the American Revolution 1776-1890.)

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