What Goes around Comes Around: Objects, Architecture, and Memory in America
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Many of the buildings and objects that fill our daily lives deliberately invoke earlier styles. In the United States, one form that has been revisited over and over again is the “colonial” style, with “colonial” serving as a catch-all phrase for the material culture associated with the settlement of North America by Europeans and the societies that these settlers built in the 17th and 18th centuries. This course interrogates the history and motivations for the United States' many colonial revivals and the role these played in shaping American museums and their collections. Students will contribute research, writing, and object selection toward the 2025 Homewood Museum exhibition "If Walls Could Talk" which will explore the many lives of Homewood House, a National Historic Landmark, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of JHU and the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence.
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