The Department of Art, Art History & Design is pleased to announce that Hannah B. Higgins, professor of art history and director of the IDEAS program in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, will be this year’s featured speaker.
The United States is arguably unique in the world among nations for its love of the flag. Public school students begin each day by reciting a Pledge of Allegiance to it. Major public events are routinely begun by singing a hymn written for it, the Star Spangled Banner. During times of social upheaval, its use is closely regulated. This lecture offers a history of the American Flag as viewed through the lens of the arts in four chapters: its origins, its emerging status in the 19th Century and the rise of the flag protection movement, its legal status in the Vietnam era, and its iconic function today.
Free and open to the public.
Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.