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: The Lynching of Enslaved People in the American South
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Kelly Houston Jones's research project, Tangled Wrath: The Lynching of Enslaved People in the American South. This talk explores the history of vigilante violence against enslaved people, with special attention to communities in eighteenth-century Virginia and North Carolina.
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Lunch at the Library: Marquis de Lafayette Returns
To mark the 200th anniversary of Lafayette's historic visit to Mount Vernon, join us for lunch and compelling discussion with historian Elizabeth Reese, who will discuss her new book, Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America's National Capital Region. This event will also serve as a launch for the Washington Library’s exciting new French Digitization effort.
This event is part of the Washington Library's Lunch at the Library series. A buffet lunch will be provided. Participants will have the opportunity to attend a post-lunch reenactment of Lafayette's historic visit to the Old Tomb, followed by a special wreath laying ceremony at Washington's Tomb.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Generational Impact of Enslavement
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Sherri Burr's research project, Generational Impact: An Economic Comparison of Mount Vernon's Enslaved Population Who Received Freedom in 1800 with Those Who Remained Enslaved until 1863. This project compares the lives of the enslaved people who were owned and then freed by George Washington to the enslaved people who belonged to the Custis Dower Estate.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Rochambeau and the American War of Independence (1780-1783)
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Matthieu Haroux’s research project, Rochambeau and the American War of Independence (1780-1783). Haroux is writing a new biography of the Comte de Rochambeau with am emphasis on the relationships he built during the American Revolution.
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Brown Bag Lunch: The Study and Reproduction of 18th-Century Garments
Bring your lunch and join Amanda Isaac, Associate Curator, and Kathrin Breitt Brown, Historic Costumer, in a discussion of how the study and reproduction of garments in the Mount Vernon collection informs what we know about the wearers and makers. In studying several Martha Washington gowns, bodices, and remnants of bodices, they have been able to draw conclusions about Martha Washington’s physicality. In reproducing George Washington’s assumed inaugural coat, insights into the conditions under which the suit was made and its maker give insight into the weeks leading up to Washington departure for his presidency
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Lunch at the Library: America's Revolutionary War in the South
Join us for lunch and compelling discussion with historian Alan Pell Crawford, who will discuss his new book, This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South. This groundbreaking history shows how the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists and patriots were, in fact, America's first civil war.
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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Brown Bag Lunch: The Atlantic Neptune and the Northern Survey
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 ARGO Brown Bag lunch series.
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Lunch at the Library: Disunion Among Ourselves
Join us for lunch and a compelling discussion with historian Eli Merritt, who will discuss his latest book, Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution. Merritt's book takes a look into the politics of the Continental Congress during the war and the obstacles to achieving independence in the 1770s and 1780s.
This event is part of the Washington Library's 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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Brown Bag Lunch: US Consuls & the Development of American Diplomacy
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Sandra Moats' research project, Global at the Founding: US Consuls and the Development of American Diplomacy. This project explores the role U.S. consuls played from the 18th century to the mid 20th century for American diplomacy. Moats is working on a book project that is focused on American politics, diplomacy, and governance in the decades surrounding Washington’s presidency.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands
Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Ross Nedervelt's research project, Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Ross is continuing his research on the importance of the British Atlantic Islands for the security of Britain and America in the 18th century.