Lecture: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and Martha Custis Williams Carter, A Remarkable Friendship
• November 6, 2018

Although the story of Elizabeth Bonaparte’s marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte’s youngest brother has long been celebrated, her end-of-life friendship with Martha Custis Williams Carter, longtime resident of Tudor Place, is […]

Director’s Conversation with Steve Inskeep
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Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition, is also the author of “Jacksonland,” a history of President Andrew Jackson’s long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the […]

Lafayette in Washington, 1824-25
• October 12, 2018

Tudor Place Executive Director, Mark Hudson, shares insights into the Marquis de Lafayette’s visits to Washington in 1824 and 1825, including stops at Tudor Place. Through contemporary accounts of his […]

Landmark Society Lecture: Mapping Early Washington
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Architectural historian and cartographer Don Alexander Hawkins will discuss how he creates historic maps for publications around the capital and country. Hawkins’ mapping of Washington has influenced historians, lecturers, and […]

Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series Presented by Georgetown Media Group
• August 27, 2018

Executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities from 2009 to 2015, Rachel Goslins is director of the Arts and Industries Building, the second-oldest Smithsonian museum on […]

Weekend Round Up August 23, 2018
• August 23, 2018

Georgetown’s Kennedy & Co. will host a happy hour this Friday to support women’s shelters. Two Saturday events will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington.