Please join us for lunch and compelling discussion with one of our fellows, as they present their findings and their research at the George Washington Presidential Library.
Upcoming Events
Brown Bag Lunch: Revolution, War, and the Forging of a Vigorous Government
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Dillon L. Streifeneder's research project, Revolution, War, and the Forging of a Vigorous Government. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Streifeneder is continuing his research on day-to-day experiences of governance and efforts to develop institutional structures needed to wage war.
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Brown Bag Lunch: The Post-Revolutionary Virginia Plantation Economy
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Steven Krug's research project, “An Entire Revolution in Fortune”: Wealth, Risk, and Crisis in the Post-Revolutionary Virginia Plantation Economy.
Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Krug is researching how Virginia planters construed the altered economic landscape of the new, post-Revolutionary world and how risk and uncertainty influenced their business mindset.
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Lunch at the Library: The Two Georges
Join us for lunch and a captivating discussion with Library of Congress editors, Susan Reyburn and Zach Klitzman, who will discuss their new book and exhibition catalog, The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution.
In this visually compelling publication, Reyburn and Klitzman explore the parallel lives of General George Washington and King George III.
This event is part of the Washington Library's Lunch at the Library series. Lunch will be provided.
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Lunch at the Library: Taste and the Antique
Join us for lunch and a compelling discussion with Adriano Aymonino, editor of Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900.
In this revised and amplified edition of the book, Aymonino and his co-editor, Eloisa Dodero, significantly update and expand this 1981 classic of art history.
This event is part of the Washington Library's Lunch at the Library series. Lunch will be provided.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Relating to the Republic
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow David Marsich's research project, Relating to the Republic: Representative-Constituent Relationships in the Early United States, 1794-1844. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Marsich is researching accounts about Congressmen in office and as candidates along with writings that suggest how people thought about representation more broadly.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Horatio Gates and the Pursuit of a Republican Revolution
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Kieran J. O'Keefe's research project, Horatio Gates and the Pursuit of a Republican Revolution. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, O'Keefe is working on his biography of Horatio Gate which aims to take a fresh look at Gate's life and contributions to American independence.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Determined to be American
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Cody E. Nager's research project, Determined to be American: Regulating Migration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Nager is conducting research on migration politics during the Washington Administration.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Henry Laurens
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Greg Brooking's research project, Henry Laurens: A Southern Founder. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Brooking is researching the personal and public life of
Henry Laurens.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Negotiating the Endless Mountains
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Ryan P. Langton's research project, Negotiating the Endless Mountains: Networked Diplomacy along the Eighteenth-Century Trans-Appalachian Frontier. At the George Washington Presidential Library, Gordon is drawing upon the library's manuscript and map collections to chart the personal networks that shaped cross-cultural diplomacy around the Ohio Valley during and after the Seven Years' War.
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Brown Bag Lunch: America’s Birth Certificate
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Richard Bell's research project, America’s Birth Certificate: The Declaration of Independence.
Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Bell is continuing research for his upcoming book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World which reframes America's War of Independence as a transformative international event.
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Lunch at the Library: Protestant Relics in Early America
Join us for lunch and a compelling discussion with Jamie L. Brummitt, author of Protestant Relics in Early America. In this book Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivated a lively relic culture centered around collecting supernatural memory objects associated with dead Christian leaders, family members, and friends.
This event is part of the Washington Library's Lunch at the Library series. Lunch will be provided.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Science and Commerce in Early America
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Laura Clerx's research project, Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Clerx is researching the meeting of scientific knowledge and early republic economic realities in the papers of the 1785 Potomac Navigation Company founded by Washington.
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