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Fighting for Freedom received generous support, guidance, wisdom, and encouragement from countless colleagues, donors, friends, family, and strangers. The curators would like to express their deepest gratitude to all of those individuals for helping to make this work possible. We express our appreciation to the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and University of the South, Sewanee, for their support and encouragement of this project over the years. The curators would like to thank Pamela Wright, President General, Susan Metzger, Curator General, and the Wright Administration for their unwavering support for this exhibition. Additionally, we would like to thank the DAR Museum staff, the Middle Tennessee State University Center for Historic Preservation, and Dr. Carroll Van West.

We would like to thank the following individuals and institutions for lending to the exhibition: American Folk Art Museum, Tennessee State Museum, Battle of Franklin Trust, Historic New Orleans Collection, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, George Washington Foundation, Mount Vernon Ladies Association, Charleston Museum, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Luzerne County Historical Society, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Bayou Bend, Menokin Foundation, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Foundation, Kentucky Historical Society, the University of the South, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Historic Charleston Foundation, Robell Awake, Dana Shoaf, and private lenders.

We would also like to thank the following institutions and individuals who helped bring this exhibition to their museums: Sara Arnold, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Gibbes Museum of Art; Lydia Blackmore, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Historic New Orleans Collection; Ashley Howell, Executive Director, Richard White, Chief Curator, Candice Candeto, Senior Curator of Fine Art at the Tennessee State Museum; Nick Powers, Curator of Collections, at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.

Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Heidi Campbell-Shoaf; Jonathan Prown, Executive Director, Chipstone Foundation; Folayemi Wilson, Associate Dean of Access and Equity, Penn State University; Jason Young, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan; Aleia M. Brown, Associate Professor of History, East Carolina University; Andrew Winters, University of North Carolina Press; Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Auctions, Andrew and Lauren Brunk, John and Stephanie Case (Case Auctions, Inc.), Leland Little Auctions; Rachel Elwes, Daniel K. Ackermann, Susan Stein, Ted Boscana, Dana Hand Evans, Annabeth Dooley, Brandy Culp, and Dionah Bryant.