Readings About Washington for the Political Campaign Season

Yale University Professor Dr. Joanne Freeman, Mount Vernon’s 2007 Gay Hart Gaines Visiting Fellow of American History, recently delivered a three-lecture series at Mount Vernon aimed at providing a better understanding of Washington as a political leader - timely reading for this political campaign season!

Learning to Think Nationally: Realities and Challenges of Washington’s World discusses how Americans thought about their nation during the 1770s and 1780s and examines some of the challenges that different types of Americans faced as a new nation slowly began to take shape.

Washington as President: I Walk on Untrodden Ground looks at Washington’s presidency and the difficulties of being America’s first president.

George Washington, Politician explores an often-overlooked aspect of Washington’s life and career: Washington the politician in his retirement years - when, as Freeman asserts, he revealed himself to be “a real Republican-hating, Jefferson-distrusting, angry, threatened Federalist.”

You may download PDF-format transcripts of Dr. Freeman’s lectures below:
learning-to-think-nationally
washington-as-president
george-washington-politician

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