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Thomas Pinckney, U. S. Government, 1796 April 12. New York Public Library

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Ethan Gonzales's research project, The Visible State: U.S. Diplomatic Agents and Information Strategies in Europe and the Federal Territories, 1789-1800

Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Gonzales is researching early American state’s efforts to manage and control information across Europe and in the Northwest and Southwest federal territories during Washington and Adams administrations

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Ethan Gonzales is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Virginia. He is interested in the ways in which the federal government mobilized information to advance national interests in the North American interior and in Europe during the 1790s. 

His research will be published in a forthcoming article in the Journal of the Early Republic titled, “Thomas Jefferson’s Information War and the Early American State in Europe, 1784-1793.” 

Originally from southeast Michigan, Gonzales served as a sergeant in the active-duty Army before pursuing a career in academia.