Elizabeth Anne Fenn is an American historian. Her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History. She serves as the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill chair in Western American History at University of Colorado-Boulder.
Elizabeth A. Fenn
Society of the Cincinnati
The Society of the Cincinnati is a fraternal, hereditary society founded in 1783 to commemorate the American Revolutionary War that saw the creation of the United States. Membership is largely restricted to descendants of military officers who served in the Continental Army.
Portrait of General George Washington, President General of the Society of the Cincinnati, by Edward Savage, 1790 (Harvard Art Museums).
Cincinnatus Abandons the Plow to Dictate Laws to Rome, by Juan Antonio Ribera, (Museo del Prado).
The Verplanck House (present-day Mount Gulian), Fishkill, New York, Steuben's headquarters, where the Society was instituted May 13, 1783.
Insignia of the Society, c. 1783.