Author Interviews

Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson is a best-selling author and former Washington Post journalist. His book The British are Coming won the 2020 George Washington Prize.

2020 George Washington Prize Finalist Richard Bell discusses his book Stolen: Five Free Boys Stolen into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.

This Q&A with author Warren Bingham explores the remarkable and challenging 1791 tour that President Washington made through the Southern states.

Nick Bunker, author of Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity, discusses Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia just over 50 years before America's Declaration of Independence.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow, author of best-selling biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, discusses the relationship between the two founding fathers.

2020 George Washington Prize Finalist Matthew R. Costello discusses his book The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President.

2020 George Washington Prize Finalist Douglas Egerton discusses his book Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America.

Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history.

2020 George Washington Prize Finalist Richard Godbeer discusses his book World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family’s Journey through the American Revolution.

The author of George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon discusses Washington's discerning eye for design.

Dr. James Kirby Martin is a nationally recognized scholar on the Revolutionary War period and is the author of Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered.

David L. Preston discusses his book Braddock's Defeat, an account of Major-General Edward Braddock's 1755 campaign and the fateful Battle of the Monongahela, in which George Washington participated.

Meet Mount Vernon's Research Historian Mary V. Thompson and read interviews with the historian about her most recent books.