- Speaker
- Lindsay Chervinsky
- Lecture date
- March 4th, 2025
- Time
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Title
- Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic
Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is a historian of the presidency, political culture, and U.S. government institutions. She is executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History, a historian at the White House Historical Association, and a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. She earned her bachelor of arts in history and political science from George Washington University and completed her master’s and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.
Chervinsky is the author of the award-winning book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution and the co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Her third book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic, is an authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams’s leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic. He defended the presidency from his own often obstructionist cabinet, protected the nation from foreign attacks, and forged trust and dedication to election integrity and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, even though it cost him his political future.