History As It Happens host Martin Di Caro visits the George Washington Presidential Library’s new executive director Lindsay Chervinsky to talk about her vision for this historically vital institution. 

This is part of a two-episode special series of History As It Happens recorded at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.

EPISODE ONE - The future of Mount Vernon’s presidential library

“When you walk into the reading room here, it is impossible not to be inspired. Marble busts of America’s founding fathers gaze down into a sunlit room with long wooden tables surrounded by rows of books.”

In this episode of History As It Happens, Executive Director Lindsay Chervinsky shares her vision for the institution. “I think there is a broader research contribution we can make beyond research in the 18th century,” she says.

EPISODE TWO - President Adams, reconsidered
Coming Thursday, August 29

“John Adams served one crisis-packed term, lost his re-election bid in 1800 to another towering figure, Thomas Jefferson, and was the last Federalist president.”

In this episode of History As It Happens, Ms. Chervinsky discusses her new book “Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic.” 

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