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John Jay is Here to Stay
In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with former Washington Library research fellow Dr. Jonathan Den Hartog to discuss his research on John Jay.
Jonathan Den Hartog is associate professor of history at the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, MN. In 2012-13, he was the Garwood Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His first book is Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation (2015). Den Hartog’s current research centers on the thought and politics of the founding father John Jay.
Joseph Stoltz is a historian and the Deputy Director of Leadership Programs at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. He is also the author of A Bloodless Victory: The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory.
