BGuthrie Photos: Reynolds Center & Washington College -- James M. McPherson ("Alexander Gardner’s Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road")

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Description of Pictures: Author James M. McPherson on Alexander Gardner’s
Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road
The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures event features an eminent writer, thinker, historian, or artist who speaks about a single, powerful image and explores its meaning. The series director is historian and essayist Adam Goodheart, who is director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.

The following is from http://washingtoncollegenews.blogspot.com/2010/04/american-pictures-series-at-smithsonian.html

American Pictures Series at Smithsonian Features Civil War Historian James M. McPherson

CHESTERTOWN, MD – On Saturday, April 10, Civil War historian James McPherson will kick off the 2010 “American Pictures” series with a discussion of Alexander Gardner’s stirring 1862 photograph “Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road, Antietam,” one of the first pictures to bring the shocking realities of war before the eyes of the American public.

A joint program of Washington College, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the “American Pictures” series offers a highly original approach to the visual arts, pairing great works of art with leading figures of American culture. This spring's all-star line-up features a trio of Pulitzer Prize-winners: McPherson, cartoonist/author Jules Feiffer (who appears on April 17), and cultural historian David Hackett Fischer, who will appear on Saturday, May 1. Each speaker chooses a single powerful image and investigates its meanings, revealing how artworks reflect American identity and inspire creativity in many different fields. The series director is historian and essayist Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the college's C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.

James McPherson is America’s leading historian of the Civil War. He won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, which was a New York Times bestseller and is widely acclaimed as the best single-volume history of the Civil War ever published. The success of Battle Cry of Freedom helped launch an unprecedented national renaissance of interest in the Civil War. McPherson served as an historical consultant on two PBS documentaries, Ken Burns’s The Civil War and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, and on the 1993 film Gettysburg. In 1991, the United States Senate appointed him to the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, which determined major battle sites, evaluated their conditions, and recommended strategies for preservation.

McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History, Emeritus at Princeton University. In 2007, he received the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime contributions to the field of military history. In addition to Battle Cry of Freedom, he is the author of several other important books on the Civil War, including For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, all published by Oxford University Press.

All "American Pictures" events take place at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, located at 8th and F Streets, N.W., in Washington, D.C. McPherson’s talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the museums’ Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Tickets are available in the G Street lobby, beginning at 3:30 p.m. No reservations are necessary for the general public.

Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Washington College may reserve tickets to this and the other American Pictures events on a first-come, first-served basis. The Starr Center is also running free buses from Chestertown to Washington for each talk. For details, please call 410-810-7165 or e-mail lkitz2@washcoll.edu. For more information on the American Pictures series, visit starrcenter.washcoll.edu.

About the Sponsors

Founded in 1782 under the personal patronage of its namesake, Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, upholds a tradition of excellence and innovation in the liberal arts. The American Pictures series is a project of the college’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and its Department of Art and Art History.

The National Portrait Gallery tells the stories of America through the individuals—poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists—who have built our national culture. It is where the arts keep us in the company of remarkable Americans.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation’s first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character and imagination of the American people from the colonial period to today.

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- Goodheart, Adam appears on:
  - 2023_DC_Goodheart_230917 Politics & Prose -- Adam Goodheart ("The Last Island") w/Wil Haygood
  - 2017_DC_NHC_CWMon_171023 National History Center -- Congressional Briefing on the History of Civil War Monuments @ Rayburn House Office Bldg
  - 2011_DC_NBF_Goodheart_110925 Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Adam Goodheart
  - 2012_DC_Rosin_120911 Sixth & I -- Hanna Rosin ("The End of Man") w/David Plotz
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Goodheart_120610 CWT Annual Conference (2012) in Richmond, VA -- Adam Goodheart talk
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Breakfast_120610 CWT Annual Conference (2012) in Richmond, VA -- Closing Breakfast
  - 2012_DC_SIPG_Tour_120407 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Tour: Adam Goodheart Civil War tour for Washington College
  - 2012_DC_Horwitz_120407 Reynolds Center & Washington College -- Tony Horwitz ("Midnight Rising")
  - 2012_DC_Goodheart_120118 Natl Archives -- Adam Goodheart ("1861: The Civil War Awakening")
  - 2011_DC_Goodheart_110423 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Adam Goodheart ("1861: The Civil War Awakening")
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- Kennedy, Frances appears on:
  - 2010_DC_Fischer_100501 Reynolds Center & Washington College -- David Hackett Fischer ("Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware")
- McPherson, James appears on:
  - 2015_DC_MasurMcP_150513 Politics & Prose -- Louis Masur ("Lincoln's Last Speech") and James McPherson ("War That Forged A Nation")
  - 2013_PA_Dedication_Prep_131119 PA -- Gettysburg Natl Battlefield -- Event: Dedication Day Ceremony -- Everything except the ceremony
  - 2013_PA_Dedication_Cer_131119 PA -- Gettysburg Natl Battlefield -- Event: Dedication Day Ceremony -- Ceremony
  - 2013_DC_Freedom_Natl_130124 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
  - 2012_DC_McPherson_121002 Natl Archives -- James McPherson ("War on the Waters")
  - 2012_MD_Antietam150_S5_120916 MD -- Antietam Natl Battlefield -- Event: 150th Anniversary -- James McPherson and Edwin Bearss
  - 2009_DC_LOC_Lincoln_090304 Library of Congress -- Event: Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium (presentations)
  - 2008_DC_McPherson_081111 Smithsonian Associates -- James McPherson ("Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief")
  - 2008_DC_McPherson_081020 Politics & Prose -- James McPherson ("Tried By War")
  - 2004_MD_Lincoln_Speakers_040327 Abraham Lincoln 2004 Symposium @ National Archives II -- Speakers
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- Symonds, Craig appears on:
  - 2016_DC_Lincoln_Matters_160218 Natl Archives -- Panel -- "Why Lincoln Still Matters" (w/Harold Holzer, Martha Hodges, Craig Symonds, and Lucas Morel)
  - 2016_DC_Holzer_160114 DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Event: Harold Holzer ("A Just and Generous Nation")
  - 2015_DC_Holzer_150214 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Harold Holzer ("Lincoln and the Power of the Press")
  - 2014_DC_Holzer_141023 Natl Archives -- Harold Holzer ("Lincoln and the Power of the Press")
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Boat_120922 CWT Grand Review (2012) in Williamsburg, VA -- Monitor/CSS Virginia boat ride tour
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Mariner_120922 CWT Grand Review (2012) in Williamsburg, VA -- Mariner's Museum
  - 2011_DC_CWAS_S2_110423 Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (3 of 9) -- Speaker: Craig Symonds
  - 2011_DC_CWAS_Etc_110423 Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (1 of 9) -- All except presentations
  - 2011_DC_NYTCW_110410 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds ("New York Times: Complete Civil War")
  - 2011_DC_WPC_Misc_110211 DC -- Willard Hotel -- Washington Peace Conference -- Miscellaneous
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