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: George Washington Entrepreneur Interns
Bring your lunch and learn about the research projects of the 2026 George Washington Entrepreneur Interns.
Lunch at the Library: Reimagining George Washington's Landscapes in the Nineteenth Century
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.
Brown Bag Lunch: The Curriculum War and Evangelical Secularism
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Zachary W. Deibel's research project, The American Revolutionary Curriculum War, and Ben Wright's research project, Evangelical Secularism: How Southern Baptists Created the Separation of Church and State.
Brown Bag Lunch: Mason Family Imperialism and Washington's Use of Intelligence
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow David Armstrong's research project, Family Imperialism: The Mason Family of Virginia and the Expansion of the American Empire, 1787-1861, and, David Priess's research project, Presidential Power, Intelligence, and Restraint: How George Washington Chose Not to Use Intelligence.
Brown Bag Lunch: Engaging with the French Revolution in the United States
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Emilie Mitran's research project, Engaging with the French Revolution in the United States: A Reflection on Politics, Diplomacy, and Regional Cultures (1780s–1989).
Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Mitran is researching how Americans perceived the French Revolution in the late 1780s, as they observed the growing popular discontent in France and its impact on the Early Republic.
