Library Events & Programs

Ford Evening Book Talk: Women in George Washington's World

Women in George Washington's World is a stunning new collection of essays about women who were closely connected to the Father of Our Country, including some who had a tremendous amount of influence on him. This book includes the work of leading historians and is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about women in early America, as well as people in the General's personal orbit.

Hear from a panel of scholars at our free book talk and submit your questions. 

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Ford Evening Book Talk and Official Book Launch: Edward J. Larson

Please join us for the official book launch of Edward J. Larson’s new book, American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation 1765-1795. This is a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding.

This wise and balanced account explores the dramatic lives and revealing words of both free and enslaved Americans who sought either to preserve or erase the pervasive tension between liberty and bondage in the Revolutionary era.  This is the story of liberty and slavery in Revolutionary America, delivered with sensibility and nuance.

Hear from the author at our free book talk and submit your questions. This event will be followed by a book signing.

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Ford Evening Book Talk: The Permanent Resident

Philip Levy’s new book, The Permanent Resident: Excavations and Explorations of George Washington’s Life is an archaeological biography of the Father of Our Country which uncovers the physical remains of the major sites he lived at or visited--from his childhood home near Fredericksburg to Barbados and Mount Vernon--while also narrating their many, and shifting, afterlives in American popular memory.

Hear from the author at our free book talk and submit your questions. This event will be followed by a book signing.

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