Holly Shulman—editor of the Dolley Madison Digital Edition and coeditor of the forthcoming People of the Founding Era—took part in James Madison University’s presidential inauguration festivities by delivering a new lecture, “Dolley Madison and the Creation of the First Lady.”
Donald McCaig, author of the new Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies, has quite a schedule lined up for the spring and summer. We have complete info for his many appearances over the coming months.
Christine Dumaine Leche, editor of Outside the Wire: American Soldiers’ Voices from Afghanistan, will be speaking and signing books at two events in April. Please read further for full schedule.
When Gordon Wood recently delivered the inaugural Washington Lecture at George Washington University, he was introduced by Denver Brunsman, author of the forthcoming The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
We have added Presidential Series volume 16 to our Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, published by our Rotunda electronic imprint. This volume contains over 500 documents from 1 May through 30 September 1794.
To mark Religious Freedom Day, John Ragosta, author of the forthcoming Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed, has just published a piece in the Washington Post tracing Jefferson’s role in achieving a separation of church and state.