How does memory and collecting shape our understanding of the American Revolution? DAR Museum will explore this topic at our upcoming symposium, Evidence of Commemoration, focusing on the material culture and memory of the American Revolution. This symposium explores in more depth DAR Museum’s 2015-16 exhibit, Remembering the American Revolution 1776-1890, which examines how several generations of 19th century Americans preserved the memory of the American Revolution through war mementos they saved and consumer goods they purchased.  

Speakers:

Seth Bruggeman, Temple University - Looking in the Mirror: Learning to See Memory in the American Past

R. Scott Stephenson, Museum of the American Revolution - The Other Home of Washington: Recreating the General’s Revolutionary War Field Headquarters

Diane Shaw, Lafayette College Special Collections - On Tour with the 'Nation's Guest': Lafayette's Return to America, 1824-25

Don Hagist, Independent researcher and author - The Revolution’s Last Men

Tyler Rudd Putman, University of Delaware - Warship, Wreck, Relic: The Three Lives of HMS Augusta

8:00am-4:00pm

$80

Registration deadline: February 24 Register here