Conversations at the Washington Library is the premier podcast about George Washington and his Early American world.
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episode 169: 169. Re-investigating an Early American Murder with Jessica Lowe
Season 5 of Conversations at the Washington Library is just around the corner. Until then, we're happy to bring you Jim Ambuske's recent live stream chat with Dr. Jessica Lowe of the University of Virginia School of Law. Long-time fans of the...
episode 170: 170. Forging a Founding Partnership with Edward J. Larson
Season 5 of the podcast drops in a few weeks. In the meantime, we're pleased to offer you Library Executive Director Kevin Butterfield’s recent live stream conversation with Edward J. Larson. Larson is the author of many books, including the subject...
episode 171: 171. Reinterpreting Mary Ball Washington with Karin Wulf, Martha Saxton, Craig Shirley, and Charlene Boyer Lewis
On today's show, we bring you the audio from our annual Martha Washington Lecture. This year's topic was Mary Ball Washington, George's mother, and the recent work by historians to rethink what we know about her life. Dr. Karin Wulf, executive...
episode 172: 172. Exploring White Women as Slave Owners in the American South with Stephanie Jones-Rogers
It’s easy to think of slave holding as a male profession. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and countless other men are often the names that come to mind when we think about early Americans who held other people in bondage. But...
episode 173: 173. Tracing the History of the Syphax Family with Steve Hammond and Brenda Parker
The has deep historic ties to Mount Vernon and other sites of enslavement in Virginia. In 1821, Charles Syphax, an enslaved man at in Northern Virginia, married Maria Carter, the daughter of a woman enslaved at Mount Vernon. Charles was the...
episode 174: 174. (Recast) Tracing the Rise and Fall of Light-Horse Harry Lee with Ryan Cole
This episode originally aired in September 2019. You may know him as Robert E. Lee’s father, but was so much more. Born into a Virginia dynasty, the man who would become one of ’s protégés came of age with the American Revolution itself. Lee...