Nothing Caricatured: Early Reenactments of the American Revolution

Join us for the first talk in our America 250 lecture series, Creating and Commemorating Our Nation, which will run through the summer and early fall of 2026, welcoming Dr. Maeve Kane of SUNY Albany! This talk is free and open to the public and will be held in the Alice's third floor ballroom. Refreshments will be served.

In 1844 Ga:hano Caroline Parker, Wolf clan Seneca, created a suit of Haudenosaunee women’s clothes that she intended to typify “the most ancient customs and history” of the Six Nations; in doing so she made a powerful political statement about the lasting importance of the Treaty of Canandaigua and her nation’s enduring sovereignty. That same year, Black veterans and sons of veterans of the American Revolution marched in Philadelphia wearing Revolutionary-era militia uniforms to protest their impending disenfranchisement. In rural New York, elderly white veteran Nicholas Veeder donned his militia uniform a…