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SUMMARY:Virtual Parlor: George Washington’s Legacy as a Military Commander\, from the Morris-Jumel Mansion to the Present
DESCRIPTION:Examine George Washington’s legacy as a military commander\, taking off from his use of the Morris-Jumel Mansion as a military Headquarters. \n\n\n\n\nGeorge Washington was born in 1732\, but his legacy has long outlived his mortal years. Among many things\, Washington was a military man\, beginning his career as a British militia officer\, fighting alongside Roger Morris in the French and Indian War. Later\, when he assumed his role as General of the Continental Army\, he took over Morris’s summer estate in Harlem Heights as his headquarters in the Fall of 1776. Starting from this pivotal point in time\, Dr. Sarah Purcell will join the Mansion for a Virtual Parlor Chat tracing the legacy of Washington as a military leader through the present day. \nAbout the Speaker: \nSarah Purcell\, L.F. Parker Professor of History\, graduated from Grinnell with a B.A. in history in 1992. She went on to earn an A.M. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1997) from Brown University. She joined the faculty of Grinnell in 2000 after teaching at Central Michigan University. Ms. Purcell’s research interests include: the Early National\, Antebellum\, and Civil War periods; popular culture and political culture; gender history; and military history. She is author of Sealed with Blood: War\, Sacrifice\, and Memory in Revolutionary America\, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press\, and Eyewitness History: The Early American Republic. She is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Battles in North America\, 1517-1915 (which won a 2000 Best of Reference award from the New York Public Library) and Critical Lives: The Life and Work of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her latest book\, Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era\, was published in April 2022 by UNC Press.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/virtual-parlor-chat-george-washington/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:History,Lecture,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:MJM Virtual Parlor Chat: Food\, Hunger\, Scarcity and General Washington’s Continental Army
DESCRIPTION:What did the soldiers of the Continental Army eat to fuel their fight for independence? What about the officers or General George Washington? Food insecurity was a monumental challenge faced by all those involved in the American Revolution. John Ota\, a bestselling and award winning author of books such as “The Kitchen” (2021 Taste Canada Awards finalist and a 2021 Paris Gourmand Cookbook finalist) and the newly released book “The Dining Room” joins the Mansion to discuss what these rations would have looked like for throughout the ranks. Ota’s deep research into the foodways of the Revolution will offer a detailed and thoughful lecture on the true circumstances of the Military encampment and headquarters menus – including what would have been eaten by soldiers and Generals alike when stationed at the MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION. \nFrom soldier’s rations to George Washington’s war time birthday celebrations\, learn about the culinary history of the American Revolution. \nThis is a virtual event;link will be emailed upon registration.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/mjm-virtual-parlor-chat-food-hunger-scarcity-and-general-washingtons-continental-army/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Virtual Parlor Chat: Trapped Between Armies: New York Women in the Neutral Zone
DESCRIPTION:The American Revolution was largely fought in the backyards of civilians\, especially in New York. After the British took control of New York City in the fall of 1776\, with the Americans retreating north of the Croton River\, the area in between became known as the Neutral Ground or Neutral Zone. \n\n\nFor eight long years\, this area\, which included all of Philipse Manor\, saw unprecedented levels of military battles and skirmishes\, vigilante violence\, and “foraging” for military supplies from the very civilians the armies were purporting to liberate from the enemy. Women were often caught in the middle\, as they struggled to maintain households with men joining armies\, tried to protect themselves and their children from military and vigilante violence including sexual violence\, and to protect their properties and foodstuffs from barn burnings\, cattle rustlers\, and marauding “foragers.” Some had strong political views on the conflict. Others simply tried to survive. \nThis talk will examine the lives of women in the Neutral Zone more broadly as well as specific stories of individual women including Mary Philipse Morris and Elizabeth Williams Rutgers Philipse\, Ann Fisher Miller\, Grace Isaacs Babcock\, and Black Loyalists such as Eleanor Fleming and Lydia Tompkins. \n\n\n 
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/virtual-parlor-chat-women-neutral-zone/
LOCATION:Online Event
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