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Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures in American Art

McEvoy Auditorium, American Art Museum 8th and F Streets, NW, Washington

The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents three afternoons of lectures delivered by its research fellows. This event is open to the public, and no reservations are required. The talks will be available through a simultaneous webcast. Wednesday, May 3 2:00 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. Moderator: William H. Truettner, Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian American Art Museum Emily Thames, Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow, Florida State University “Rendering Reform, Rendering Empire: Jose Campeche as Draftsman in Late Eighteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico” Jennifer Chuong, Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University “Bedeviling the Stamp Act: Materiality and Protest in Revolutionary America” Patricia Johnston, Terra Foundation Senior Fellow […]

Anne Sarah Rubin — “Confederate Hunger: Food and Famine in the Civil War South”

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, UMBC 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore

Historians know that over the course of the American Civil War, the Confederacy essentially starved to death, a result of the Union blockade, the breakdown of slavery on the home front, and not enough food being grown. What we don’t know, however, is what that felt like for ordinary people on the most intimate and individual scale. This lecture will explore the ways that the war affected what people ate and how food choices became symbols of nationalism, resistance, and survival. This project looks at food and hunger from the perspectives of white Southern civilians, African Americans, and Confederate soldiers. […]