# Lafayette in America

Join author Ryan L. Cole for a discussion of the Marquis de Lafayette and the bicentennial of his Grand Tour of America. Cole’s new book “The Last Adieu” details the tour and how Americans two hundred years ago remembered the American Revolution and imagined their nation’s future. Kluge Center Director Kevin Butterfield will interview Cole on Lafayette’s tour and, joined by Charles Schwam of the American Friends of Lafayette, will discuss the bicentennial observances of this important national event.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2026
- Runtime: 54 min
- By: Butterfield, Kevin
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-11644/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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