Library Events & Programs

Ford Evening Book Talk: Sailing Upwind

Hear from retired U. S. Navy admiral and chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board Sandy Winnefeld, author of Sailing Upwind: Leadership and Risk from TopGun to the Situation Room. 

Admiral Winnefeld offers useful reflections regarding how he accepted and managed risk along the way, as well as a concise description of the qualities one must develop to become a successful leader.

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed. This event will be followed by a reception.

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Brown Bag Lunch featuring Library Fellow Sarah Donovan

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Sarah Donovan's research project, Transplanted Whiteboys and Sons of Paxton: Patterns of Extralegal Violence in the British Atlantic World.

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Brown Bag: John Mitchell’s A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America

Bring your lunch and learn more about George Washington's world, the Washington Presidential Library’s important map collection, and the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) web portal in our new ARGO Brown Bag lunch series.

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Lunch at the Library: For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle

Join us for lunch and compelling discussion with award-winning author John A. Ragosta, who will discuss his new book For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle. 

This event is part of the Washington Library's new Lunch at the Library series. A boxed lunch (including sandwich or salad, fruit, pasta, cookie, chips, and drink) will be provided.

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Ford Evening Book Talk: Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic

Hear from Princeton University professor Michael A. Blaakman, author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic. 

Dr. Blaakman uncovers the wave of land speculation that swept the United States in the first guarter-century after its founding. This mania was unprecedented in intensity and scale and is the story of ambition, corruption, capitalism, and statecraft that stretched across millions of acres from Maine to the Mississippi and Georgia to the Great Lakes.

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

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Ford Evening Book Talk: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

Hear from Distinguished Professor David Waldstreicher, author of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journey Through American Slavery and Independence. 

Dr. Waldstreicher's new book is the most deeply researched biography of the poet. This is a paradigm-shattering account of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution.

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Lunch at the Library: A Peale in Paris, Recovering a National Treasure

Join us for lunch and compelling discussion with Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Carol Soltis, who will discuss her work to authenticate and document Charles Willson Peale’s painting Washington at Princeton, now in the collection of the Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to France. 

This event is part of the Washington Library's new Lunch at the Library series. A boxed lunch (including sandwich or salad, fruit, pasta, cookie, chips, and drink) will be provided.

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Ford Evening Book Talk: The Tory's Wife

Hear from George Mason University Professor Cynthia A. Kierner, author of The Tory's Wife: A Woman and her Family in Revolutionary America. 

Dr. Kierner's new book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. After the war, she did with a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature when she fought to reclaim her family’s lost property.

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Lunch at the Library: Such a Woman, The Life of Madame Octavia Walton LeVert

Join us for lunch and compelling discussion with librarian and author Paula Lenor Webb, who will discuss her new book, Such a Woman: The Life of Madame Octavia Walton LeVert. 

This event is part of the Washington Library's new Lunch at the Library series. A boxed lunch (including sandwich or salad, fruit, pasta, cookie, chips, and drink) will be provided.

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Ford Evening Book Talk: Unfriendly to Liberty

Hear from historian Christopher F. Minty, author of Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City. 

Minty's new book explores the origins of loyalism in New York City between 1768 and 1776, and revises our understanding of the coming of the American Revolution.

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

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Ford Evening Book Talk: How the Best Did It, Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents

Hear from historian Talmage Boston, author of How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from our Top Presidents. 

Talmage Boston's new book is an accessible and insightful explanation of how the most important leadership traits from America’s eight greatest presidents can be implemented by today’s leaders. It is a discerning examination of what can be learned from some of our most effective leaders who have held—and wielded—ultimate power at the highest level.

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

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