Aug 29, 2024
This is the second conversation in a two-part series recorded inside the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.
John Adams' one-term presidency was sandwiched between towering figures of the American past. He succeeded the living legend George Washington and was succeeded by Thomas Jefferson, and Adams'...
Aug 27, 2024
This is the first conversation of a two-part series recorded at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans visit Mount Vernon annually. Relatively few people see the inside of the George Washington Library. Its new executive director is historian Lindsay Chervinsky,...
Aug 22, 2024
This month marked 50 years since Richard Nixon resigned the presidency for the crimes of Watergate. The endless fascination with the break-in and the cover-up has obscured what may be more important in Nixon’s legacy as Americans demand a more restrained foreign policy today: his contribution to the...
Aug 20, 2024
The selections of Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz as vice presidential running mates received non-stop media attention this summer, but will either choice really matter come November? Does anyone vote for vice president? John Adams once called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever...
Aug 15, 2024
This is the sixth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, Election of 2000, was published on July 11.
If you believe American society has never been as politically polarized as it is now, you may not be familiar with the late 1790s. Federalists and...