Open 365 days a year, Mount Vernon is located just 15 miles south of Washington DC.
From the mansion to lush gardens and grounds, intriguing museum galleries, immersive programs, and the distillery and gristmill. Spend the day with us!
Discover what made Washington "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association has been maintaining the Mount Vernon Estate since they acquired it from the Washington family in 1858.
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The Washington Library is open to all researchers and scholars, by appointment only.
Joseph J. Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history and is the author of 11 books. Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation and his in-depth chronicle of the life of our first president, His Excellency: George Washington, was a New York Times bestseller.
Ellis discusses his book The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution.
Martin Di Caro, host of the History As It Happens podcast, travels to Mount Vernon inside the Washington Library with special guests Joseph Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the founding era, and historian Doug Bradburn, Mount Vernon’s president and chief executive.
For part two of the History As It Happens podcast, host Martin Di Caro talks to Joseph Ellis and Doug Bradburn about the challenge of presenting a balanced portrait of Washington’s legacy during the ongoing national reckoning over race.
