Which is her base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joined you in your home, were trying out this new mode of communications that is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As all of you know we were founded in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age in such a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house, but also in Education Mission to teach and to tell the stories of the white house and its history going back to 7092 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. Creating education materials and content is a a core part of our mission, and thats what we do everyday through the wonderful, wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we h
Pleasure to put on my constitutional reading glasses you can tell i am not actually outside because i have to put them on before i do the introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of introducing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution c
In your home, we are trying out this new mode of communications. But its perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As all of you know, we were founded in 1961 i first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age in such a short bit of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to get nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the standard of the white house but also an education mission, to teach at to tell the stories of the white house and its history going back to 1792 when George Washington who we are talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. Creating educational materials and content is a core part of her mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the cater house and around the country, and our online social media content and website content. And this is an
Introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law in University History professor at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution center. Edward thank you so much for having me back, even if only virtually. Jeffrey it is just great. I a
She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of introducing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. And edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair in law at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington, the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution center. Thank you so much for having me back, even if only virtually. It is just great. I am so eager to learn from both of you and with both of you in a spirit of louis brandeis. Come, let us reason together. Let the learning begin. Let us begin with you, because you have this powerful pair