Profs & Pints Baltimore: George Washington and Executive Power
Sun, Feb 16
|Baltimore
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “George Washington and Executive Power,” a fresh assessment of our first president’s approach to his own authority, with Denver Brunsman.
Time & Location
Feb 16, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Baltimore, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “George Washington and Executive Power,” a fresh assessment of our first president’s approach to his own authority, with Denver Brunsman, associate professor and chair of the history department at George Washington University and scholar of the American Revolution and early American republic.
Let historian Denver Brunsman show you why he is beloved by his students and has built up a big following among Profs and Pints fans in metro Washington D.C.
Be on hand in Baltimore as he explores one of the pressing concerns of our times – the question of what, if any, limits there are on executive power—by examining the origins of executive power under George Washington.
You’ll learn how Washington played a vital role in framing the Constitution as the president of the Philadelphia Convention. He then went on to put the document into practice as America’s first president, a role in…