Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/21/2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall
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Zara Anishanslin PosterDomesticating Revolution: Patriot Women, Military Men, and the Material Culture of Bringing Battle Home
American Patriots during and after the Revolution used material culture–from musket ball necklaces to wallpaper–first to wage, and then to come to terms with waging, the war. Americans made and used objects to “domesticate” the war in multiple senses: to bring battle into the home, to make something public and communal private and intimate, to produce and consume goods related to the Revolution in the American marketplace, and, eventually, to tame memories of a violent Patriot past. During the war itself, Americans–in particular, women and children–brought objects into their home that recognized the role of violence in crafting revolution. Peace declared, American use of objects to remember revolution changed. Postwar goods differed from their wartime counterparts in their celebration of a war largely devoid of, rather than memorialized for, its violence.
