Acclaimed historians Lindsay Chervinsky and Edward Larson explore the figure at the center of their most recent books, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution and Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership in an online program. Chervinsky and Larson discuss the legacy of George Washington, one of the most revered figures of the founding era, and the origins of the government he helped to create. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
- Lindsay Chervinsky is a White House Historian at the White House Historical Association. She has published articles in the Law and History Review, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and several edited volumes on the presidency and Early America. Her book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution was published by Harvard University Press.
- Edward Larson is the Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law and University Professor of History at Pepperdine University. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and author of the new book Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership. He is also the author of The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, and Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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