As 2024 is an election year, Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, an historian of the Presidency, political culture, and the government—looks at how our second President set the stage for many later traditions and trends.  

Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, a historian at the White House Historical Association and a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.  Dr. Chervinsky is the author of the award-winning 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. She has been published in the Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, and many others; she is a regular resource for outlets like CBS News, Face the Nation, CNN, The BBC, Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times, and CBC News.