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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints DC: George Washington and the Civil War
LOCATION:Penn Social
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 30% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nProfs and Pints DC presents: “George Washington and the C
 ivil War\,” on how all sides of a nation-dividing conflict enlisted a long
 -dead founding father\, with Anne Sarah Rubin\, a professor of history at 
 the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County who specializes in the study
  of nationalism and memory during the American Civil War.\n\nAdvance ticke
 ts: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at [https://event
 s.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-george-washington-civil-war .]\n
 \nGeorge Washington died in December 1799\, more than sixty years before t
 he American Civil War began. Yet in 1860 he seemed to be everywhere\, embr
 aced by abolitionists and slaveholders\, Unionists and Confederates alike 
 as a mythical symbol of their own righteousness. All drew on the image and
  iconography of George Washington and the American Revolution to claim leg
 itimacy for their respective sides.\n\nGain insight into how our nation’s 
 history and memory has long been weaponized to support disparate causes wi
 th Anne Sarah Rubin\, an author of two books on the Civil War who has give
 n great talks in Baltimore on the war’s impact on that city.\n\nDr. Rubin 
 will describe how memories—both actual and cultural—of Washington and the 
 revolution diverged in ways that reflected divisions over slavery. Slaveho
 lders and abolitionists each laid claim to the parts of the past that they
  could use and discarded the rest.\n\nThe memory of the Founders and the R
 evolution was malleable. Homages to their wisdom and the republican experi
 ment they created could be read as conservative. Calls for greater equalit
 y could be read in the Revolution’s spirit. Washington was portrayed as a 
 benevolent master in one popular engraving and as an emancipator in anothe
 r.\n\nEach side used images\, songs\, and stories to make their case. When
  the war broke out\, Confederates eagerly seized upon popular songs like “
 Yankee Doodle” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” and rewrote them to serve th
 eir own ends\, calling Union soldiers “Hessians” or “Tories” and praising 
 the Stars and Bars as the better flag.\n\nWith the end of the war and the 
 assassination of Abraham Lincoln\, Northerners united the two presidents i
 n death\, even proposing that Lincoln be buried at Mount Vernon. That pres
 idential home itself became a symbol of sectional reconciliation. (Doors: 
 $17\, or $15 with student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk begins 30
  minutes later.)\n\nImage: A Stephen James Ferris print published in 1865 
 after Lincoln’s assassination (Library of Congress).
URL:https://www.meetup.com/profs-and-pints-meetup/events/315628247/
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