BGuthrie Photos: USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Matthew Costello (American Sepulcher: George Washington's Tomb in the US Capitol)

USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Matthew Costello (American Sepulcher: George Washington's Tomb in the US Capitol):

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Description of Pictures: American Sepulcher: George Washington’s Tomb will explore the history of the empty tomb beneath the Capitol Rotunda reveals how American hero worship evolved and transformed during the first half of the nineteenth century. Federalists attempted to fuse European hero worship traditions with American republicanism, using Washington’s tomb to further their political agenda and power. Democratic-Republicans charged that this form of veneration smacked of regality and decadence, branding it antithetical to the ideals of the American Revolution. The story of the tomb is a testament to George Washington’s significance to a young nation, but its emptiness speaks volumes about the rejection of Old World traditions and the political contentiousness of our national past.

Costello is the Senior Historian at the White House Historical Association. For the past year Costello has been working on the Bibliography for the Washington Papers at the University of Virginia. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed his PhD and MA in History at Marquette University.na State University. He is the author of 14 books and numerous articles and essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction, including 7 books relating to Lincoln. With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (1997) won the Lincoln Prize, Second Place, Lincoln’s Last Months (2004) received the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award, Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency (2007) was awarded the Henry Adams Prize by the Society for History in the Federal Government, and Lincoln and the Border States (2011) was the co-winner of the Lincoln Prize.

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- Costello, Matthew appears on:
  - 2023_DC_USGA_Decatur_230429 DC -- U.S. Grant Association Annual Meeting (2023) -- Tour of Decatur House
  - 2023_DC_USGA_Lunch_230429 DC -- U.S. Grant Association Annual Meeting (2023) -- Saturday Lunch
  - 2023_DC_WHHA_Mourning_230223 White House Historical Association -- Panel ("Mourning the Presidents") w/Michael Beschloss, Matthew Costello, Lindsay Chervinsky, and Sharron Wilkins Conard
  - 2023_DC_WHHA_TVPres_230124 White House Historical Association -- Panel ("White House History: The Televised Presidency") w/Frank Sesno, Kelly O’Donnell, Mike McCurry, and Dr. Martha Kumar
  - 2022_DC_WHHA_Book_Fair_221202 White House Historical Association -- Holiday Book Fair
  - 2018_DC_ThorntonO_181130 USCHS & University of Aberdeen -- Imagining the Capitol: The Enlightened Life of William Thornton @ Octagon
  - 2017_DC_DCHist_P06_171104 44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 06: A Complicated Path Toward 1968: History, Corruption, Trauma, and Protest in 19th-century Washington, D.C.
- diGiacomantonio, Chuck appears on:
  - 2020_DC_Bordewich_200310 Library of Congress Kluge Center -- Author Salon: Fergus Bordewich ("Congress at War")
  - 2020_DC_Highland_200205 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Sara Bon-Harper and Jennifer Stacy ("New History at James Monroe’s Highland")
  - 2020_DC_Thank_You_200123 USCHS -- Volunteer and Partner Appreciation Event @ Altria
  - 2020_DC_Fink_200115 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Matthew P. Fink ("The Unlikely Reformer: Carter Glass and Financial Regulation")
  - 2019_DC_Bowling_191211 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Ken Bowling ("Hunting for the Bill of Rights: The Historian Detective”) @ National Churchill Library
  - 2019_DC_Pollock_191023 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Lee Pollock ("Winston in Washington") @ National Churchill Library
  - 2019_DC_Truth_191023 USCHS -- "Truth is the Only Client" screening and panel discussion
  - 2019_DC_Levey_191002 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Bob Levey ("Larry Felder, Candidate")
  - 2019_DC_diGiacomantonio_190925 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: William C. diGiacomantonio ("The Insurgent Delegate")
  - 2019_DC_Calhoun_190918 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Charles W. Calhoun ("The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant")
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- Ritchie, Donald appears on:
  - 2019_DC_Reidy_190227 Natl Archives -- Joseph P. Reidy ("Illusions of Emancipation")
  - 2017_DC_NHC_CWMon_171023 National History Center -- Congressional Briefing on the History of Civil War Monuments @ Rayburn House Office Bldg
  - 2016_DC_Inouye_160419 Library of Congress -- Event: Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson @ Second Inouye Lecture
  - 2009_DC_NA75_090617 Natl Archives -- Panel -- 75 Years: The Natl Archives from a Community Perspective
  - 2008_DC_NAFDR_080313 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932
  - 2005_DC_NAWPC_050317 Natl Archives -- Donald Ritchie ("Reporting from Washington: Washington Press Corps") w/Helen Thomas
  - 2005_DC_NAAC_050302 Natl Archives -- Panel -- American Congress
  - 2005_DC_NPC_BookFair_051117 NPC -- 28th Annual Book Fair & Authors' Night (2005)
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