The George Washington Presidential Library @GWBooks
The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. We advance knowledge about Washington and his Early American World. IG: gwbooks mountvernon.org/library Mount Vernon, Virginia Joined October 2010-
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What a powerful start to the 2026 Women’s Leadership Summit! Last night, guests gathered for the Annual Martha Washington Lecture featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. We’re just getting started. #WomensLeadershipSummit2026
Ford Evening Book Talk: Richard Brookhiser on John Trumbull
Brown Bag Lunch featuring Library Fellow Lucy Smith
Brown Bag Lunch: The Montrésor Map of 1766/1775
Ford Evening Book Talk: Revolutionary Things
Ford Evening Book Talk: How the Best Did It, Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
In 1793, a charming stranger arrived in America to rally support for the French cause. As his popularity soared, Washington faced a new crisis that would pit him between two mighty European nations. Learn more in "Inventing the Presidency": bit.ly/3V3yrsf
Brown Bag Lunch: The Hutchins Map of 1778
Autochrome photo of the Lower Garden, 1910-1920. An Autochrome is the result of an additive color process with colors composed of minute grains of potato starch dyed orange, green, and blue-violet. View all three examples here: bit.ly/3xjbdVW
In this exclusive bonus episode of Inventing the Presidency, archaeologists reveal the latest discoveries unearthed at @MountVernon, including the rare find of 18th-century cherries and new information about the enslaved community. Listen: bit.ly/3QAeF5k
Applications open for special travel fellowship to attend or present at an AMERICA2026 conference in Toulouse, France, this November:
Alice Richards, the MVLA Vice Regent for Maine and later Regent, wrote this memoir the day after an historic visit to Mount Vernon by dignitaries from France and Britain on April 29, 1917. Learn more about Mount Vernon during WW1 here: bit.ly/3PGcah
Ford Evening Book Talk: Unfriendly to Liberty
A land-speculation venture, the Dismal Swamp Company was founded in 1763 to drain, tame, and make profitable the Great Dismal Swamp, stretching hundreds of thousands of acres between VA and NC. Learn more at the Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington: bit.ly/3J3u35H
Brown Bag Lunch featuring Library Fellow Edward P. Green
Ford Evening Book Talk: The Tory's Wife
This Mansion floor plan is from a series of measured drawings done by staff in the 1930s. The documentation created in the current Mansion revitalization efforts will be added to previous work done to aid future generations of Mount Vernon caretakers.
Brown Bag Lunch featuring Library Fellow John Phibbs
This map from the Richard H. Brown Collection uses color to make an argument about British claims to North America in 1755. Take a closer look on ARGO, a multi-institutional map platform: bit.ly/3Um3CPJ
Lantern slide image of the upper garden, 1930s: Lantern slides are transparent photographs made on glass and viewed with the aid of a “magic lantern,” the predecessor of the slide projector. Tints of color are applied to the black-and-white image to create a "color" photo.
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