Please join us for lunch and compelling discussion with one of our fellows, as they present their findings and their research at the George Washington Presidential Library.
Upcoming Events
Brown Bag Lunch: Summer Spies, Soldiers, and Servants
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Ramin Ganeshram's research project, Summer Spies, Soldiers, and Servants: African Americans in Washington's Revolutionary New York.
Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Ganeshram is researching how enslaved and free communities of color covertly and overtly influenced and affected Washington’s actions as commander of the Continental Army during the summer of 1776 while occupying Manhattan Island.
Brown Bag Lunch: The Visible State
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Ethan Gonzales's research project, The Visible State: U.S. Diplomatic Agents and Information Strategies in Europe and the Federal Territories, 1789-1800.
Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Gonzales is researching early American state’s efforts to manage and control information across Europe and in the Northwest and Southwest federal territories during Washington and Adams administrations.
Brown Bag Lunch: The Founders’ President
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Julian Davis Mortenson's research project, The Founders’ President.
Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Mortenson is researching presidential power at the American founding.
Lunch at the Library: Inside Alexandria's Beautiful Historic Homes
Join us for lunch and a compelling discussion with Robert F. Weinhagen, author of Old Town Style: Inside Alexandria's Most Beautiful Historic Homes.
In this book, Weinhagen celebrates one of America's most beautiful historic towns and the passionate stewards preserving its legacy.
This event is part of the Washington Library's Lunch at the Library series. Lunch will be provided.
Lunch at the Library: Seed Money
Join Mount Vernon experts Dr. Holly Gruntner (Landscape Historian), Rebecca Baird (Archivist), and Amanda Isaac (Chief Curator of Fine and Decorative Arts) as they share how a tree cultivated by George Washington in the 1780s sparked both the idea for a fundraising project to help save the property in the 1860s and the creation of a unique object in Mount Vernon’s collections.
This event is part of the Washington Library's Lunch at the Library series. Lunch will be provided.
