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presidential historians

Lindsay Chervinsky named Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

John Fea   |  May 24, 2024

I knew her before she was famous! We overlapped briefly as fellows at the George Washington Presidential Library. Congrats, Lindsay! Well-deserved. Here is the press release from Mount Vernon: MOUNT VERNON, Va., May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association is proud […]

American historian Sean Wilentz on Marco Rubio’s “fake populism”

John Fea   |  August 15, 2022

Distinguished Princeton historian Sean Wilentz was recently part of a group of historians (and others) that Joe Biden invited to the White House to discuss the fate of American democracy. Marco Rubio called the group “elitists” and “snobs” working against […]

Watch Trump defend his presidency to presidential historians

John Fea   |  May 4, 2022

Watch Princeton historian Julian Zelizer convene a meeting with Trump and other presidential historians to discuss his legacy. (HT to Rick Perlstein for bringing this to my attention). We covered this story here. Trump comes at the 14:00 minute mark. […]