Events

Upcoming: In-Person Events

• July 2026
  • July 13: Harvard Book Store. Book Talk (in conversation with Michelle Finamore). Cambridge, MA
  • July 18: Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. “Costuming the Revolution.” Philadelphia, PA.
  • July 19: Historic Rock Ford, “Buff & Blue: How George Washington Fashioned the Revolution.” Lancaster, PA.
  • July 27: Bookshop Santa Cruz. Book Talk (in conversation with B. Modern). Santa Cruz, CA.

• September 2026
  • Sept 10: American Antiquarian Society Suitable: the Surprising History of the Plain Black Suit Worcester, MA
  • Sept 15: Charles River Museum Mill Talk: The Secret History of Suits – How Industry Fashioned Modern Menswear. Waltham, MA.

Virtual Events

• August 20, 6:30-7:45pm: Smithsonian: “A Suitable Style: The Revolutionary History of Men’s Suits“

Classes

• Sept 15, 22, 29 (1:00-2:00pm ET) 92nd St Y: American Sartorial: Masculinity, Power, and the Rise of the Black Suit

Past Events

• May 2026
  • May 5: Massachusetts Historical Society “Black Dandies & the Birth of American Minstrelsy: Masculine Fashion, Transatlantic Caricature & Racial Performance, 1828–1836” (paper workshop). Boston, MA.
  • May 30: 2026 Mount Vernon Symposium: Becoming American. “The Sartorial Revolution: George Washington and the Fashioning of Modern Men.” Mount Vernon, VA.
• June 2026
  • June 1: Costume Society of America Annual Symposium. “Costuming the Revolution: When Good Costume Design Means Bad Fashion History.” Charlotte, NC.
  • June 5: American Philosophical Society: America’s 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies. “Plain Ordinary Men: the Founding Fathers and the Un-Fashioning of America.” Philadelphia, PA.
  • June 9: DAR Museum Tuesday Talk (virtual)
  • June 13: Historic New England: Dressing for the American Revolution. “Costuming the Revolution.” (livestreamed) Eustis Estate, Milton, MA