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Historian Zara Anishanslin discusses her new book that highlights three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty. The American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Drawing from her new book, Dr. Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy—Robert Edge Pine, Prince Demah, and Patience Wright—and who boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence.
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Zara Anishanslin is an associate professor of history and art history at the University of Delaware, who specializes in material culture. She is the author of the award-winning Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2016) and has served as a historical consultant for the television programs, including the Travel Channel’s Myteries at the Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Hamilton: The Exhibition. Since 2023, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society.
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Historian Zara Anishanslin discusses her new book that highlights three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty. The American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Drawing from her new book, Dr. Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy—Robert Edge Pine, Prince Demah, and Patience Wright—and who boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence.
About the Speaker
Zara Anishanslin is an associate professor of history and art history at the University of Delaware, who specializes in material culture. She is the author of the award-winning Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2016) and has served as a historical consultant for the television programs, including the Travel Channel’s Myteries at the Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Hamilton: The Exhibition. Since 2023, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society.
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