Lindsay M. Chervinsky is Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. A historian of the presidency, political culture, and U.S. government institutions, she previously was a senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and a White House Historical Association historian. She has been awarded fellowships at the Library of Congress, the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Society of Cincinnati, and Mount Vernon.
Her first book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, received the Excellence in American History Award from the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Thomas J. Wilson prize from Harvard University Press, was a finalist for the Journal of the American Revolution best book prize, and was a best book in history selection by Amazon.
She publishes a regular newsletter, Imperfect Union and has published articles in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and The Bulwark, among others, and regularly provides commentary on radio, television, and podcasts.
Her next book, Making the Presidency, will be published by Oxford University Press.