Sara Georgini

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Series Editor, The Papers of John Adams

Dr. Sara Georgini is series editor for The Papers of John Adams, part of the Adams Papers editorial project based at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where she has worked on nearly 20 volumes of the edition. She is the author of Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford, 2019) and the forthcoming Our Library in Paris (Oxford, 2025), as well as editor of The Oxford Handbook of Family History and Genealogy.

March 25, 2024

The First Year

After the first presidential inauguration in 1789, George Washington faced the daunting prospect of starting a presidency from scratch. Every action he took would set a precedent. Ramin Ganeshram, Dr. Sara Georgini, Dr. Sand…