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Rooms for Lafayette

Memories and Memorials to the Last Men of the Revolution…

Paul Wayland Bartlett, Lafayette Monument

Making Time for Suffragists at the Lucy Burns Museum

Birding Never Goes Out of Style

Rethinking the Lotus Bowl at Auction

An Un-Valentine to the Archdiocese of Hartford

A Un-Valentine to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford:  Sacred Heart High School can stand proud of its almost 100-year history contributing to the welfare of individuals and society. Its closure--and the closure of Catholic grammar schools and high schools across the country, already devastating but sped up by the economic pressures of the pandemic—was not a surprise…

The Spirit of 1776/1917: Town and Gown Go to War

Auckland Museum has long been in the business of initiating, supporting and disseminating original research on a range of contemporary and historical topics. Facilitating the deep interrogation of an issue from multiple perspectives and providing a platform for discussion are core functions for the museum to deliver. It is our hope that greater understanding and inspiration will come from well-informed debate and illuminating little-known facts…

A Digital Reading of the Sengbe Pieh Portrait In the Covid-19 Era

Book | Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World

Some monuments are about war. And some wars are about monuments. A recent memorial melee was the Unite the Right rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. You remember, the one where Donald Trump saw “very fine people on both sides”. Laura A Macaluso was less sanguine. The “hideous” spectacle of white supremacists marching around Confederate-era statues led her to issue a call for essays about “monument culture”…

Susan Brown Chase’s Georgetown Scene Paintings

The C&O Canal and Georgetown have been the subject of more than a century of photography, including numerous black and white glass plate negatives from the 19th century and colorful images taken by Carol M. Highsmith at the end of the 20th century. In between these two sets of photographs located at the Library of Congress…