‘Inheriting the Revolution: The Modern Legacy of 1776’ at FAU
鶹ƷƵ’s Department of History in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents “Inheriting the Revolution: The Modern Legacy of 1776,” on Thursday, March 19 at 4 p.m. at the Lifelong Learning Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. The lecture will be presented by Lindsay Chervinsky, Ph.D., executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon in Virginia. Tickets are $25 at or by calling 561-297-6124.
In this lecture, Chervinsky will consider how the founders conceptualized politics, government institutions and political culture, and their expectations for the nation. She will then explore how society has evolved or remained the same.
Previously, Chervinsky was a historian at the White House Historical Association. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, as well as the Kundrun Open Rank Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. She has received fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Society of the Cincinnati, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, and the National Library for the Study of George Washington.
One of Chervinsky’s books, “Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Presidents that Forged the Republic,” will be on sale at the event with book signing available.
This lecture is sponsored by the Department of History’s John O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture and the Florida Atlantic Libraries, and co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science. It has also been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The lecture is also part of the celebration of America at 250 at Florida Atlantic. Additional information can be found at www.fau.edu/america250.
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