Name: Objects of Memory: Washington and Material Culture
Location: National Park Event Location

To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series. All events take place at the Cambridge Public Library, and will also be livestreamed.
Consider how Americans understand the material culture of Washington and the Revolution, including art and clothing, featuring: 
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<li>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</li>
<li>Horace Ballard, author of Superfine: George Washington and the Free and Enslaved Men Who Dressed Him (forthcoming) and the Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums</li>
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This speaker series is made possible through the generous support of America's National Parks, a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. It is presented in partnership by the National Park Service/Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, History Cambridge, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Historical Commission, and Cambridge MA250.

Objects of Memory: Washington and Material Culture

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site preserves a remarkable Georgian house whose occupants shaped our nation. It was a site of colonial enslavement and community activism, George Washington’s first long-term headquarters of the American Revolution, and the place where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his canon of 19th-century American literature.

Yellow three-story mansion with symmetrical facade. Steps and large lawn in foreground. Framed by br

Front Facade

Fun for All Ages

View of a study with a round center table cluttered with books and writing implements.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Study

A staircase with white balusters and green carpet. A bust of Washington sits at the turn of stairs.

Front Hall

mansion highlighted by the changing colors of fall

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Longfellow Family Garden

large crowd on the east lawn listening to singers perfom

Summer Festival Concert

Winter at Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters

Hours for the visitor center and house at Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site vary by season.  The grounds are open year-round, dawn to dusk.
In the summer, the site is open Friday to Monday.
During the winter season, the house is closed to the public, with tours available by appointment only.

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