Skip Moskey

Background

About Skip Moskey

I am an independent scholar who researches and writes primarily about notable Americans of the long nineteenth century who were connected to the history of art, architecture, or politics in Washington, D.C. I write, publish, and give public lectures about my research when the opportunity arises. Some of my subjects have included: Author Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson and her husband Larz Anderson (collector and bon vivant), Elizabeth Coles Kilgour Anderson (prolific letter writer and observer of Washington society), Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (Henry Adams's private secretary and Director of the Boston Public Library) Edward Hamlin Everett (19th c. industrialist whose home is one of the best examples of neoclassical architecture in Washington) S. Dillon Ripley (Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution), Woodrow Wilson. My Recent work includes editing the Letters of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Anderson to her Son Larz Anderson 1882-1916; and the co-authoring an article on the Isabel and Larz Anderson collection, “From Zuni to Dupont Circle: Isabel and Larz Anderson’s Native American Collection” published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide in 2023. I've lectured at the Boston Athenaeum, Belgian Council of State, Victorian Society in America, American Library in Paris, Rochambeau Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Paris), The Society of the Cincinnati, and Woodrow Wilson House. I hold a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University and am a member of The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of D.C, Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, and Alliance Française of Washington.