March 30: Washington in American Memory Speaker Series
Mon March 30, 2026
6-7:30 pm
Washington Remembered, Washington Forgotten: Washington and Slavery
Monday, March 30, 2026
6:00-7:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library Lecture Hall (449 Broadway, Lower Level 2)
Explore how Americans have remembered and forgotten Washington’s involvement with slavery over the past 250 years with Kelli Racine Barnes, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Independence National Historical Park; John Garrison Marks, author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory and Director of the Public History Research Lab at the American Association for State and Local History; and Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tufts University Center for the Humanities.
This speaker series is made possible through the generous support of Eastern National, a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. It is presented in partnership by the National Park Service/Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, History Cambridge, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Historical Commission, and Cambridge MA250.
