Library Events & Programs

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Matthieu Haroux’s research project, Rochambeau and the American War of Independence (1780-1783). Haroux is writing a new biography of the Comte de Rochambeau with am emphasis on the relationships he built during the American Revolution.

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Bring your lunch and join Amanda Isaac, Associate Curator, and Kathrin Breitt Brown, Historic Costumer, in a discussion of how the study and reproduction of garments in the Mount Vernon collection informs what we know about the wearers and makers. In studying several Martha Washington gowns, bodices, and remnants of bodices, they have been able to draw conclusions about Martha Washington’s physicality. 

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The George Washington Presidential Library opened its doors in 2013 and in so doing, launched an ambitious research fellowship program where scholars carry out important work which they share with broad audiences. The Library is a stimulating environment for creative scholarship which encourages a confluence of new ideas and powerful connections, while delivering our mission to educate the widest public audience about the life, leadership, and legacy of the Father of Our Country. 

To celebrate the Library’s ten-year anniversary, the 2024 George Washington Symposium will showcase the ongoing work of its talented research fellows.

The George Washington Presidential Library opened its doors in 2013 and in so doing, launched an ambitious research fellowship program where scholars carry out important work which they share with broad audiences. The Library is a stimulating environment for creative scholarship which encourages a confluence of new ideas and powerful connections, while delivering our mission to educate the widest public audience about the life, leadership, and legacy of the Father of Our Country. 

To celebrate the Library’s ten-year anniversary, the 2024 George Washington Symposium will showcase the ongoing work of its talented research fellows.

Join us for lunch and compelling discussion with historian Alan Pell Crawford, who will discuss his new book, This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South.  This groundbreaking history shows how the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists and patriots were, in fact, America's first civil war.

This event is part of the Washington Library's new Lunch at the Library series. A boxed lunch (including sandwich or salad, fruit, pasta, cookie, chips, and drink) will be provided.

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Hear from historians David Head and Timothy C. Hemmis, editors of A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation. 

The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints. This new book provides interesting stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s.

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

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Bring your lunch and learn more about George Washington's world, the Washington Presidential Library’s important map collection, and the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) web portal in our ARGO Brown Bag lunch series.

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Join us for lunch and a compelling discussion with historian Eli Merritt, who will discuss his latest book, Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution. Merritt's book takes a look into the politics of the Continental Congress during the war and the obstacles to achieving independence in the 1770s and 1780s.

This event is part of the Washington Library's Lunch at the Library series. A boxed lunch (including sandwich or salad, fruit, pasta, cookie, chips, and drink) will be provided.

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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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Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Sandra Moats' research project, Global at the Founding: US Consuls and the Development of American Diplomacy. This project explores the role U.S. consuls played from the 18th century to the mid 20th century for American diplomacy. Moats is working on a book project that is focused on American politics, diplomacy, and governance in the decades surrounding Washington’s presidency.

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Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Ross Nedervelt's research project, Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Ross is continuing his research on the importance of the British Atlantic Islands for the security of Britain and America in the 18th century.

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