Educational Events

Join Mount Vernon's K12 staff to learn more about The George Washington Teacher Institute Summer Residential and Fellowship Programs. These sessions are also a great opportunity to ask staff directly about how to submit a top-scoring application. We hope to see you at one of the sessions!

Register: December 2

Register: January 6

George Washington’s Mount Vernon presents a FREE onsite & virtual program to thank K-12 teachers. Join us to reflect on the life and legacies of Hercules Posey, an enslaved cook for George Washington during the 1780s and '90s who sought and gained his freedom from Mount Vernon in 1797. 

Registration opens on November 25, 2024.

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Hear from historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, author of The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It. 

This is a panoramic, persuasive and inspiring new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand.

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.

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Join Mount Vernon's K12 staff to learn more about The George Washington Teacher Institute Summer Residential and Fellowship Programs. These sessions are also a great opportunity to ask staff directly about how to submit a top-scoring application. We hope to see you at one of the sessions!

Register: December 2

Register: January 6

Hear from historian Jane E. Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson.

Despite the key part he played in the country's founding, few Americans today have heard of John Dickinson. Jane E. Calvert's fascinating, authoritative, and accessible biography, the first complete account of Dickinson's life and work, restores him to a place of prominence in the nation's formative years.

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.

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Hear from historian William Haldeman, author of Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership that Transformed America.

This new book tells the stories of a selected group of US presidents and the inspired leadership characteristics they demonstrated during times of national crisis that set them apart and transformed America — qualities of judgment and ingenuity, dedication and courage, and confidence and optimism. 

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.

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Hear from historian Joyce E. Chaplin, author of The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution.

This new book tells the surprising story of Benjamin Franklin’s most famous invention―and a new take on the Founding Father we thought we knew.

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.

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