The George Washington Presidential Library invites you to join us for our monthly Ford Evening Book Talk, which features authors and historians discussing their latest books about George Washington and our nation’s Founding era. Lectures are free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase.
Mount Vernon has enjoyed a very special relationship with the Ford Motor Company dating back more than 90 years. We are grateful for their generous support and we applaud their abiding respect for American heritage.
Upcoming Events
Ford Evening Book Talk: George Washington, Citizenship, and the Jewish Community in America
Hear from historians Adam Jortner, Lincoln Mullen, and John G. Turner about George Washington, citizenship, and the Jewish community in America.
Adam Jortner is the author of A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom. Lincoln Mullen and John G. Turner are co-authors of the podcast Antisemitism, U.S.A.
Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: The Painter's Fire
Hear from historian Zara Anishanslin, author of The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution.
Told through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty, this book tells an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution.
Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
Hear from historian Kostya Kennedy, author of The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America.
One of America’s most famous founding events: Paul Revere’s heroic ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the story Americans have heard since childhood but hardly understood.
Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.
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Ford Evening Book Talk: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Hear from historian Joseph J. Ellis, author of The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding, a daring and important work that ultimately reckons with the two great failures of America’s founding: the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal.
Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions and have their books signed.
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Special offer from the Mount Vernon Inn Restaurant
Consider dining with us at the Mount Vernon Inn before these events. Once you register, print your tickets and bring them to the Inn on the evening of the Book Talk to receive 10% off your entire check or a free appetizer with purchase of two entrees.
Call 703-799-6800 to make a reservation.