# Charles Willson Peale

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Freedom, 8 Cents at a Time – the Story of Moses Williams

Before photography, when portrait painting remained expensive but technology was changing how people saw the world, silhouettes – the shadow-like images created from projections and paper – were having a moment. A craze, in fact. Affordable, reproducible, and surprisingly faithful, silhouettes serv…

Freedom, 8 Cents at a Time – the Story of Moses Williams

Before photography, when portrait painting remained expensive but technology was changing how people saw the world, silhouettes – the shadow-like images created from projections and paper – were having a moment. A craze, in fact. Affordable, reproducible, and surprisingly faithful, silhouettes serv…

Nathanael Greene and La Fayette, Partners in Freedom. With Salina B. Baker.

In this unique episode, we engage in a conversation with Salina B. Baker, an accomplished author of historical fiction, who has received multiple awards for her work. Additionally, she is a historian specializing in the American Revolution and Victorian America. She has just released an outstanding…

The Fiery Arch: Celebrating the Treaty of Paris

It was meant to be a spectacle. And it was. But not in the way intended. In this episode, author and historian Eliga Gould tells the incredible story of Charles Willson Peale's Triumphal Arch, built to celebrate the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the American Revolution and establishe…

The Fiery Arch: Celebrating the Treaty of Paris

It was meant to be a spectacle. And it was. But not in the way intended. In this episode, author and historian Eliga Gould tells the incredible story of Charles Willson Peale's Triumphal Arch, built to celebrate the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the American Revolution and establishe…

Episode 1: Five Major Moments in the History of Exhibiting American Art

Welcome to Breaking the Frame, a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. Before getting to our interviews this season, hosts Emily Casey and Ruthie Dibble set the table in this episode by discussing…

3.10: Charles Willson Peale and William Hill Brown: the Curator and the Novelist of America’s Crucial Years

Send us Fan Mail “Culture.”  It’s a word that means something different depending on who you ask; to some, it means an element that is “popular” and can serve as a common frame of reference for a large group of people.  To others, “culture” refers to how an individual lives their life based on a sp…

Art as Political Expression in the American Revolution - Dr. Zara Anishanslin

Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by historian Dr. Zara Anishanslin to uncover the overlooked world of non-elite painters—women, nonwhite men, and others who used their brushes to make bold political statements. While elite artists shaped the iconic images of the Revolution that…

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