威尼斯人娱乐场

First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America

威尼斯人娱乐场 Museum
Online

Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken step-grandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War. In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure, as well as meet the children he helped raise, and trace their complicated roles in American history. The children of Martha Washington鈥檚 son by her first marriage鈥擡liza, Patty, Nelly, and Wash Custis鈥攚ere born into life in the public eye. Raised in the country鈥檚 first 鈥渇irst family,鈥� they remained well known as Washington鈥檚 family and keepers of his legacy throughout their lives. Joining the author in conversation will be Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.