Inventing the Presidency: Washington, Adams and Jefferson

Friday, November 1st at 1:00pm for part 3 of our American History Lecture Series with Jared Day, PHD: Inventing the Presidency: Washington Adams, & Jefferson. This lectures will examine the lives of America’s first three presidents with special emphasis on their administrations covering the crucial formative years of 1789 to 1809. We will explore the challenges that Washington faced as the first president, the critical precedents set by all three, the foreign and domestic challenges each faced, and the long-term legacies they left both in the institution of the presidency as well as in the broad
course of American history general