Episodes

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Scott Miller, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia and a former Washington Library research fellow, to discuss his latest findings regarding the economy of the early American Republic. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Mount Vernon's Vice President of Education Allison Wickens sits down with Valerie Shull, a 23-year veteran teacher of the Douglas School District in Box Elder, South Dakota and current Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings educator for the Rapid City Area Schools in Rapid City, South Dakota. In their conversation, they discuss Shull's time at Mount Vernon as a teacher fellow as well as her main research project, connecting the Lakota Values with George Washington. For more info...

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Associate Professor of History at the University of Northwestern St. Paul and former Washington Library research fellow Dr. Jonathan Den Hartog to discuss his findings on John Jay. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Dr. Dana Stefanelli to discuss his role as one of the editors for the Papers of George Washington Project. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Allison Wickens, Vice President of Education at George Washington's Mount Vernon. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Sam Murphy, Manager of Historic Trades at George Washington's Mount Vernon. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Jeremy Ray, Manager of History Interpretation at George Washington's Mount Vernon. For more information check our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Mount Vernon character interpreter Brenda Parker to discuss the challenges of portraying and articulating the past in a modern setting. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Hamilton musical U.S. tour cast members Sabrina Sloan (Angelica Schuyler) and Nicholas Christopher (Aaron Burr). For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Gordon Wood sits down with Dr. Douglas Bradburn, the President and C.E.O. of George Washington's Mount Vernon, to discuss Dr. Wood's fifty-three year career as a historian of early America. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Gordon Wood sits down with Dr. Douglas Bradburn, the President and C.E.O. of George Washington's Mount Vernon, to discuss Dr. Wood's new book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Douglas Bradburn, the President and C.E.O. of George Washington's Mount Vernon, sits down with author Russell Shorto to discuss his monumental new book, Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom. For more information check out our website www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Mount Vernon's President and C.E.O. Douglas Bradburn sits down with scholar Kevin J. Hayes to discuss his new book, George Washington: A Life in Books. For more information check out our website www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Washington Library research fellow Dr. Mark Edward Lender to discuss the Conway Cabal and the challenge to General Washington's leadership position. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Washington Library research fellow Iris de Rode to discuss the relationship between George Washington and François Jean de Chastellux. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Washington Library research fellow Dr. Elisa Vargas to discuss the early diplomatic relationship between Spain and the United States, focusing on the work of Diego María de Gardoqui, Spain’s First Diplomatic Envoy to the United States. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Mount Vernon President and C.E.O. Doug Bradburn sits down with the Senior Vice President of Visitor Engagement Rob Shenk to discuss the challenges and opportunities of public history in the age of New Media, focusing on Mount Vernon's newly renovated Revolutionary War Theater. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Matt Briney, the Vice President of New Media at George Washington's Mount Vernon, and Joseph Cortina, the founding partner of Cortina Productions, to discuss the new interactive experience, Be Washington: It's Your Turn To Lead. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Washington Library research fellow Dr. Lawrence B.A. Hatter to discuss his topic, Negotiating Independence: American Overseas Merchant Communities in the Age of Revolution. For more information check out our website www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Douglas Bradburn, the President and C.E.O. of George Washington's Mount Vernon, sits down with Dr. Jon Kukla to discuss his book, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Washington Library research fellow Dr. Charlene Boyer Lewis to discuss her topic, The Traitor’s Wife: Peggy Arnold and Revolutionary America. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Stoltz sits down with Dr. Larrie Ferreiro to discuss his book, Brothers At Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

Dr. Edward Gray is Professor of History at Florida State University where he teaches a range of courses in U.S. history, Native American history, and the history of the Pacific in the age of Captain James Cook. He was named a Top Young Historian by History News Network and was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in Japan in 2014. In this episode he discusses his book "Tom Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United States."---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/messageSupport t...

Dr. Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has written numerous books on colonial North America, the American Revolution, and the early Republic. Dr. Taylor has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History, most recently for "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832," which was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the George Washington Prize. In this episode he discusses his book "American R...