Conversations at the Washington Library is the premier podcast about George Washington and his Early American world. Join us for talks with scholars, digital humanists, librarians, and other guests about Washington's era and the way we tell stories about the past.
Former hosts and co-hosts of Conversations include Dr. Jim Ambuske, Dr. Kevin Butterfield, Dr. Joseph Stoltz, Dr. Douglas Bradburn, and Jeanette Patrick.
Host, Producer, Historian, Author
Jim Ambuske, Ph.D., is Historian and Senior Producer at R2 Studios, the podcast division of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He formerly led the Center for Digital History at the Washington Library. A historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic World, Ambuske graduated from the University of Virginia in 2016. He is a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA Law, Ambuske co-directed the 1828 Catalogue Project and the Scottish Court of Session Project. He is currently at work on a book about emigration from Scotland in the era of the American Revolution.