Profs & Pints DC: George Washington Never Declared Independence

Profs and Pints DC presents: “George Washington Never Declared Independence,” an exploration of our first president’s evolving American identity, with Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history at George Washington University and scholar of the American Revolution and early American republic.

With our nation’s 250th anniversary approaching, it’s time for a fresh assessment of one of the key figures who got the ball rolling.

Trace the unconventional steps that George Washington took in embracing American citizenship, separate from his status as a British colonial subject, with historian Denver Brunsman, a Profs and Pints fan favorite and the author of the forthcoming book George Washington and His World: Enslaver, Revolutionary, President.

It will be the ninth time Professor Brunsman has given an annual talk tied to Presidents’ Day and George Washington’s Birthday, and each has been a blast, featuring odes to America’s first president and ending in historic toasts.

You’ll learn how…