Educational Events

Mount Vernon invites neurodivergent individuals and their families to join us for a sensory-friendly morning and tour.

Mount Vernon welcomes homeschooling families to discover the 18th century by learning about George Washington and the British Empire in the summer and fall of 1774.

Join Education staff and K-12 teachers from across the DMV to explore the many connections between STEAM and the history of George Washington's Mount Vernon.

Teachers who register must be planning to teach in a formal K-12 school environment in the greater Washington D.C. area for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year.

Hear from historian Michael D. Hattem, author of The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History.  In this new book, Dr. Hattem examines the surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries.

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

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Mount Vernon invites neurodivergent individuals and their families to join us for a sensory-friendly morning and tour.

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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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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