On Saturday, I had the honor of receiving the 2026 New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati 2026 History Prize for Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution. It was a beautiful event in one of Washington’s most historic and legendary buildings. I wanted to share a few photos.
As discussed earlier, the Society of the Cincinnati is named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, who became Roman Consul and later dictator of Rome when it was threatened. However, when Rome was saved, he relinquished all of his powers to return to his farm. That is why the motto of the society is Omnia reliquit servare rempublicam (“He relinquished everything to serve the Republic”).
The full name of the society is the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. It was founded in 1783 near the close of the American Revolutionary War by officers of the Continental Army. With the disbanding of the Army looming after the war, General Henry Knox and the officers pledged to keep the society going through their sons. It is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States.
It has thirteen individual societies in the United States as well as one in France, which perpetuate “the remembrance of this vast event” of the American independence, “to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature,” and “to render permanent the cordial affection subsisting among the officers” of the Continental Army who served in the Revolutionary War.
George Washington was the first President General of the Society. After he died in 1799, Alexander Hamilton became the second president. When Hamilton was killed in his famous duel, he was succeeded by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
The General Society is headquartered (and the award dinner will be held at) the historic Anderson House in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Society has an impressive educational program teaching young people about our history and values.
I wanted to thank the Society for this honor, and I was thrilled to visit this historical gem in the middle of Washington. You can take tours, which I strongly recommend.
Here are a few photos from the event:
Congratulations on your most recent award! Well deserved. Thank you too, for the rare glimpse into this storied organization.
Congratulations. Thank for the report and the great photos.
Congratulations on your most recent award! Well deserved. Thank you too, for the rare glimpse into this storied organization.
Congratulations, Professor, on your award, and as others have said, thank you so very much for sharing your images. A truly amazing “facility.”
However, I would have greatly appreciated some captions along with the images so I could have better understood what I was looking at.
Congratulations on the price you received–you certainly deserve it! Thank you for sharing the beautiful photos, too!
Yes, a member took me on a tour of the building many years ago and I concur it is well worth the time.
It a good thing they didn’t have TEMU back then!
Congratulations for receiving this great honor from the New Jersey Society of the Society of the Cincinnati. I also thank you for highlighting the fine work done by the Society of the Cincinnati in helping promote the story of the American Revolution. I am a member of the Massachusetts Society, proudly representing my ancestor who was an officer in the Revolutionary army and who was killed at the Battle of Saratoga. And as a resident of the DC area, I concur that a visit to Anderson House in DC–the national headquarters of the Society–is well worth a visit! The research library there is the most comprehensive library on the Revolution anywhere.
Kudos JT.
When you retire, you should go into photography full time
Thanks for this tour
Thank you Professor for this. A great reminder of our History and what is not taught in the overwhelming libeal hives of History revised where only the mistakes of our History are taught with the morality of the 21st Century and not as life was lived in the 17th, 18th Centuries and sometimes as far back as the 1st Century. If one were to go into a History class today one might think Slavery was the product of White colonists when an honest look will take us back to before History was even recorded.
The General Society is headquartered at the historic Donald J Trump Anderson House.
The bookshelf in the building contains the book, “How to Feed the Need for Attention,” by Allen Pasch.
Is that you?
If you want to start something, let’s meet at the corner of Trump Street and Trump Avenue at Trump o’clock.
aw, are you on daylight savings time?
Looks like Clock struck “Score!
Congratulations, professor. Looks amazing.
Congratulations on your prize and thank you for sharing the photos.