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Attendees should park in Mount Vernon visitor parking lots and enter the library campus via the pedestrian gate near the 4-way stop.
Open 365 days a year, Mount Vernon is located just 15 miles south of Washington DC.
From the mansion to lush gardens and grounds, intriguing museum galleries, immersive programs, and the distillery and gristmill. Spend the day with us!
Discover what made Washington "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association has been maintaining the Mount Vernon Estate since they acquired it from the Washington family in 1858.
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The Washington Library is open to all researchers and scholars, by appointment only.
On July 22, 2014 at the Rubenstein Leadership Hall in the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Trenton Cole Jones, a member of the Library’s inaugural class of fellows, will discuss the results of his research topic, "Deprived of Liberty: Enemy Prisoners and the Culture War in Revolutionary America, 1775-1783"
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Trenton Cole Jones, Ph.D.
Jones received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 2014. He is a cultural historian of public violence in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, and is studying the culture of war in revolutionary America by analyzing how revolutionary Americans addressed the problems of capturing and confining enemy prisoners of war.
Amanda and Greg Gregory Family Fellowship.
Attendees should park in Mount Vernon visitor parking lots and enter the library campus via the pedestrian gate near the 4-way stop.