Channel Title: George Washington's Mount Vernon Channel Description: Go behind the scenes at George Washington's beautiful and historic Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia. Learn about how the estate is preserved by experts to resemble the year 1799, and how the grounds are as much a reflection of Washington himself. <video> Ford Evening Book Talk: David Brooks, How to Know a Person Description: Hear from historian David Brooks, author of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. This talk, co-hosted by the George Washington's Presidential Library and More Perfect, will be a discussion between Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky and David Brooks about the role of civility, honest conversations, and listening in politics. </video> <video> Reconstructing the Inaugural Suit 🪡 Description: On January 19, join Mount Vernon's historic costumer, Kathrin Breitt Brown, and Colonial Williamsburg's master tailor, Mark Hutter, for a special presentation about how they recreated George Washington's inaugural suit. Learn more about this program: https://bit.ly/40k4NAD </video> <video> Mozart’s Sonata in C 🎶 Description: Listen to Mozart’s Sonata in C played on the reproduction of Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis's harpsichord. Learn more about the harpsichord: https://bit.ly/40ln8OK </video> <video> 🧥 See George Washington’s Inaugural Suit Coat Description: For a limited time, get an in-person look at George Washington’s suit coat that he wore to his first inauguration in New York. On Jan. 18 and 19, chat with Adam Erby, The Martha Washington Chief Curator, and Amanda Isaac, Curator of the Fine and Decorative Arts Collection, about the suit and other presidential items: https://bit.ly/4gTBmMI </video> <video> George Washington's Original Inaugural Suit Coat Description: What did George Washington wear when he was inaugurated as the first president of the United States? 🇺🇸 In April of 1789, Washington wore this suit coat to his inauguration in New York. For a limited time, this coat is on display in our museum. Don't miss this opportunity to witness a piece of history in person. Learn more about the suit coat: https://bit.ly/40kE4nw </video> <video> Season’s greetings from Don the fifer! 🎶 Description: </video> <video> Brown Bag Lunch: Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands Description: Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Ross Nedervelt's research project, Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Ross is continuing his research on the importance of the British Atlantic Islands for the security of Britain and America in the 18th century. </video> <video> Ford Evening Book Talk: Penman of the Founding Description: Hear from historian Jane E. Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson. Despite the key part he played in the country's founding, few Americans today have heard of John Dickinson. Jane E. Calvert's fascinating, authoritative, and accessible biography, the first complete account of Dickinson's life and work, restores him to a place of prominence in the nation's formative years. </video> <video> Watch how a rose head nail is made. 🔨 Description: </video> <video> Brown Bag Lunch: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850 Description: Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Laura Clerx's research project, Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850. She is exploring the relationship between scientific and economic activity in the lives of early Americans seeking to expand national markets into the North American continent’s interior. She argues that changes to economic practice in the early republic which transformed early national Americans’ relationship to property in land and material goods and laid the groundwork for an increasingly capitalist society, also shaped the way that they studied and understood the scientific properties of the natural world. At Mount Vernon, she is researching the meeting of scientific knowledge and early republic economic realities in the papers of the 1785 Potomac Navigation Company founded by Washington. </video> <video> Enjoying a holiday carriage ride! 🔔 🌲 Description: </video> <video> Brown Bag Lunch: Wine and Slavery in the United States Description: Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Whitney Nell Stewart's research project, Bitter Vines: Wine and Slavery in the United States. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Stewart is continuing her research on the importance of the relationship between wine and slavery in the early United States, looking particularly at viticulture and vinification at Mount Vernon. </video> <video> #OnThisDay, in 2019, the United States Space Force was formed. 🚀 Description: </video> <video> Learn more about the Small Room: https://bit.ly/3Den8Y4 Description: </video> <video> Learn more about the Yellow Room: https://bit.ly/3VyYEPA Description: </video>

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Go behind the scenes at George Washington's beautiful and historic Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia. Learn about how the estate is preserved by experts to resemble the year 1799, and how the grounds are as much a reflection of Washington himself.

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