MONUMENT
MONUMENT
Thing4Things by Zara Anishanslin and Joanna Cohen
S1 · E2
Jun 19, 2025
37:40
Episode notes

The strange tale of a tail leads us into the history and art behind the revolutionary toppling of a king.

The expert guest for “MONUMENT” was Wendy Bellion.

Bellion is Associate Dean for the Humanities and the Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American Art History at the University of Delaware. Bellion's scholarship takes an interdisciplinary approach to American visual and material culture, focusing on the late colonial and early national United States and exploring American art within the cultural geographies of the British Atlantic world and early modern Americas. Her books include: Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment (2019) and  ... 

Keywords
Material Culture
Eighteenth Century
George Washington
USA 250
America 250
American Revolution
Things
Objects
American History
Revolutionary War
Revolutionary Era
Atlantic World
Things Happen
Stuff Matters
Not Stuffy
Metalwork
Thing4Things
Thing for Things
King George III
King George