Founding Freedoms Lecture and Tea
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Join us for a special lecture and high tea at the historic George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon (3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121).
Our event will open with an introduction titled “First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen” with Anne “Dede” Neil Petri, 24th Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
Our keynote, presented by Doug Bradburn, Director and CEO of George Washington’s Mount Vernon, will be titled “Character Makes the Men: Reflections on the Personal Character of George Washington.”
This event is by invitation only. For additional information please contact Susan at sgates@faithandlaw.org.
This talk is a part of our Founding Freedoms Lecture Series, that seeks to help Capitol Hill Staff think more deeply about the freedoms bequeathed to this nation – and the religious tenets that undergird them.
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Anne Neil Petri graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in American History and Literature and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Throughout her distinguished career, Petri has served as general counsel for the National Endowment for the Humanities, co-founder and president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, and president of the Garden Club of America. She currently serves as President and CEO of the Olmsted Network where she led the
Olmsted Bicentennial celebration. A Vice Regent since 2004, Petri is the second Regent to hail from the state of Wisconsin. Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks, the Association’s seventh Regent, took the helm in 1943.
On January 1, 2018, Douglas Bradburn, Ph.D., became the 11th Director of George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
Bradburn joined Mount Vernon in 2013 when named the Founding Director of The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. He is an award-winning author and well-known scholar of early American history.
Bradburn is the author of The Citizenship Revolution: Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804, and three anthologies, including Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion, the most significant book produced to mark the 400th anniversary of the English founding of Jamestown. He is the co-founder and editor of the award-winning book series, Early American Histories, at the University of Virginia Press, and the winner of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the yearlong Gilder Lehrman Research Fellowship at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.
He is the recipient of five Telly awards for his work on animated documentaries for use in the classroom and a “Thea” award for the popular Be Washington interactive educational game. Bradburn has appeared on C-SPAN, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, and was most recently featured in the History Channel’s docudrama, WASHINGTON.
Before coming to Mount Vernon, Bradburn served as Chair of the History Department at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in history and economics from the University of Virginia.
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