Recent and Upcoming Events

“Contrasting Styles: George and Martha Washington vs. Their Enslaved People,” Girl Scout Day, New York Society Library, New York, NY, November 9, 2024

“Finding Black Founders in Iconic Early American Portraits,” Art at Noon, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, October 16, 2024

“Domesticating Revolution: The Material Culture of Homespun Violence in the American Revolution,” Bennion Workshop Public Keynote Address, Utah State University, June 24, 2024

“Threads of History: Martha Washington and the Lives of 18th-Century Women,” Revolutionary Spaces, Boston, Old South Meeting House, May 7, 2024

“Founding Mother: Elizabeth Willing Powel,” Daughters of the American Revolution, Independence Hall Chapter, Philadelphia, April 20, 2024

“Founding Era Women,” NEH Funded Early American History Teachers’ Institute, George Washington University and The Gilder Lehrman Center for American History, July, 2023

“Tipsy History,” Women in Philadelphia, The Library Company of Philadelphia, March 10, 2023

The History of Value in Nineteenth-Century North America, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 14 to 15, 2023

“Portrait of a Woman in Silk: London Designer Anna Maria Garthwaite,” for the “Everyday Technologies” Series at Jane Austen & Co., April 18, 2023