April 2024
Lecture – An English Lord in America: Lord Fairfax and George Washington in Revolutionary Virginia
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, played an influential role throughout the life of George Washington. Having been introduced to Washington shortly after settling in Belvoir, Va., in 1747, Fairfax became Washington’s first employer when he hired the sixteen-year-old Virginian to survey his lands west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Although a professed Loyalist throughout the American Revolution, Fairfax was quiet about his sentiments and remained a close friend of Washington until Fairfax’s death in 1781. In this lecture,…
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Lecture—A Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the marquis de Lafayette. For over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic as a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist and abolitionist. As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in an Austrian prison. After his release, Lafayette…
Find out more »Dupont-Kalorama Museum Consortium Walk Weekend
Join us and six of our partner museums in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., that will be open free of charge for this annual festival featuring special exhibitions and activities. Participating museums are Anderson House, Dumbarton House, The Phillips Collection, The President Wilson House, The National Museum of American Jewish Military History, The O Museum in the Mansion and Dupont Underground. For additional information, visit www.DKMuseums.com. Advanced registration for Walk Weekend tickets is encouraged, but not required. For…
Find out more »Dupont-Kalorama Museum Consortium Walk Weekend
Join us and six of our partner museums in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., that will be open free of charge for this annual festival featuring special exhibitions and activities. Participating museums are Anderson House, Dumbarton House, The Phillips Collection, The President Wilson House, The National Museum of American Jewish Military History, The O Museum in the Mansion and Dupont Underground. For additional information, visit www.DKMuseums.com. Advanced registration for Walk Weekend tickets is encouraged, but not required. For…
Find out more »Author’s Talk—The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807
To Blacks, Britain’s Emancipation Revolution rang out louder than the Declaration of Independence. Drawing from his recent book, historian Theodore Corbett traces the emerging path of freedom for Africans and African Americans in the late-eighteenth century by discussing major social shifts and political events in Great Britain and her American colonies—the Great Awakening, Lord Dunmore’s proclamation and the American Revolution—to demonstrate how they all led to Parliament’s abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807. Registration is…
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